Jim Hinks is an editor at Comma Press, a Manchester-based publisher specialising in short fiction.

He graduated from The University of Manchester in 2002 with an MA in Novel Writing, where he was a recipient of the Curtis Brown First Novel Award and the Jerwood/Arvon Scholarship.

Jim has been part of the Comma Press team since 2005. He's the editor of Brace: A New Generation in Short Fiction (April 2008), Reberth: Stories from Cities on the Edge (Dec 2008), The Book of Istanbul (2010) and About You (forthcoming). He's currently Comma Press's Translation and New Writing Editor.

From 2009-2012 he lectured on the MA in Publishing at the University of Central Lancashire. He's taught Creative Writing at The University of Leeds and delivered lectures on Short Story Theory, Publishing and Translation at a number of UK universities. He is currently an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge HIll University, where he is a PhD candidate in Narrative Theory in the Short Story.

Website : www.commapress.co.uk

Titles by Jim Hinks

Brace - A New Generation In Short Fiction

Brace - the latest in Comma Press' acclaimed series of anthologies featuring the best of the UK's emerging short story writers.

...Organ-playing wunderkinds, poets on government re-employment schemes, unlikely celebrity party guests...

While these stories take in a vast array of subjects and styles, they have one thing in common: they demand our participation, urging us to fill in the blanks, the spaces between the words. Whether it's a concealed motivation, a mysterious confederation of the familiar and the far-fetched, or an image with the eloquence to convey what a character could never articulate, it's their very reticence that makes them so compelling.

Featuring: Charlotte Allan, Juliet Bates, Annie Clarkson, Adam Connors, Steve Dearden, Paul de Havilland, Tyler Keevil, Richard Knight, Jacqueline McCarrick, Neil McQuillian, Heather Richardson, David Rose, Guy Russell, Guy Ware.

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Details

• ISBN 9781905583225
• Publisher Comma Press
• Genre Short Fiction
• Extent 184pp