Last year, I pitched a rough idea for a paper for the Short Story Conference held annually in Liverpool in May.  The wrote back asking for a full abstract.  I panicked and pretended I never received the email, then got called a numpty by my Field Chair.  So this year, I’ve been a touch braver and pitched a paper about ‘Transgression in Short Story Collections’, basically talking about how the short story is the best medium for transgressive, bizzaro and experimental fiction.  A lot of this essay resides in my dissertation already, so it wouldn’t be a massive job to write it.

They have thanked me for the submission and are considering it.  I’m only half hoping that it’s accepted.  On the one hand: what a huge thing to take part in at my age.  On the other: me standing in front of a room of scholars and academics with a bit of paper trying not to vomit is a difficult image to wrap my head around.

Hohum, we shall see what happens.

Social Bookmarking:

This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2008 at 8:50 am and is filed under Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.