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Selections from Best British Short Stories 2011-2024
September 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

COME AND MEET THE AUTHORS!
Best British Short Stories series edited by Nicholas Royle aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere.
WORDTheatreUK returns to Notting Hill’s Ladbroke Hall on Thursday, September 26th, with selections from the Best British Short Stories series 2010-2024 brought to life by actors!
Doors open at 6pm for drinks and nibbles!
7 pm Performances
Author • Actor pairings in order of appearance:
Dinta Gohil reading Mona Dash
Ray Panthaki reading Nikesh Shukla
Leemore Marrett Jr. & Kayla Meikle reading Leone Ross
Tiffany Gray reading Rosie Garland (not attending)
Tallulah Greive reading Anneliese Mackintosh
Con O’Neill reading Ben Tufnell
Original music directed & composed by Lewis Kane
Accordion: Lewis Kane
Percussion: Michael Ekeghasi
Fiddle: Lewis Kelly
All authors will all be attending with the exception of Rosie Garland, who is touring North America with her band.
Cast and directed by WORDTheatre® Artistic Director Cedering Fox
Produced by Cedering Fox & WORDTheatreUK Creative Partner, Kirsty Peart.
PLEASE NOTE:
Tickets will not be mailed. Your name will be on a list at the door.
ABOUT THE ACTORS
Dinita Gohil is an actress of television and film, who has appeared in such popular series as Netflix’s The Sandman (2022-present) and Amazon Prime’s police drama DI Ray (2022-present).
Tallulah Greive is an Australian-born Scottish actress known for her roles as Orla in Our Ladies (2019), Princess Gwen in Cinderella (2021) and Lauren in Millie Inbetween (2014-2018).
Leemore Marrett, Jr. started his professional acting career in 2009, appearing in the video film The Academy Part 2: First Impressions. After that, he has appeared in films like My Brother the Devil (2012), Survivor (2015), Postcards from London (2018), Final Score (2018), and the recent blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine (2024).
Kayla Meikle is an actress of screen and stage who has appeared in Shoe Lady, ear for eye, Primetime, and Living Newspaper for the Royal Court. her film and television credits include The Girl Before (2021) and Medusa Deluxe.
Ray Panthaki is an actor, producer, screenwriter and director best known for the roles he played in Marcella (2016-2020), Away (2020), and the movie Boiling Point (2021), for which he was nominated for the 2021 BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other credits include the film Kidulthood (2006), which he also produced, Colette (2018), 28 Days Later (2002), Official Secrets (2019), Convenience (2013), Tube Tales (1999), Provoked, Interview with a Hitman, and It’s a Wonderful Afterlife (2010).
Tiffany Gray is an actress known for The Amateur (2025), Innocent Blood (2013) and Silo (2023).
Con O’Neil is an English actor. He started his acting career at the Everyman Theatre and became primarily known for his performances in musicals. He received critical acclaim and won a Laurence Olivier Award for playing Michael “Mickey” Johnstone in the musical Blood Brothers.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
Mona Dash is an award- winning author based in London. Her work includes her memoir A Roll of the Dice, a short story collection Let Us Look Elsewhere , a novel Untamed Heart and two collections of poetry, A Certain Way and Dawn Drops. She has been published in various journals and listed in leading short story competitions. Her work has been shortlisted, more than once, in awards such as Eastern Eye ACTA, SI Leeds Literary award Eyelands Literary Award, Tagore Literary Prize to name some. Her work has been presented on BBC Radio 4, included in Best British Short Stories 22, and published in more than thirty-five anthologies. She also works as a business leader in AI, for a global tech company. More details at www.monadash.net
Rosie Garland has a passion for language nurtured by public libraries. She writes poetry, long and short fiction and sings with post-punk band The March Violets. She is the author of The Palace of Curiosities (which won the Mslexia Novel Competition and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize), Vixen and The Night Brother, which was described by The Times as “a delight…with shades of Angela Carter.” Her new novel, The Fates, is a retelling of the Greek myth of the Fates. Her latest poetry collection, What Girls do in the Dark (Nine Arches Press), was shortlisted for the 2021 Polari Prize. Val McDermid has named her one of the most compelling LGBT+ writers in the UK today. In 2018-2019 she was inaugural Writer-in-Residence at The John Rylands Library, Manchester, and in 2023 was made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.
Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection, Any Other Mouth, was published by Freight Books in 2014 and won the Green Carnation Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, Saltire Society’s First Book Award and the Saboteur Award, and was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Anneliese’s short stories have won the Green Carnation Prize and been shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland.
Leone Ross is a fiction writer and academic. She was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. Her first novel, All the Blood Is Red, was long-listed for the Orange Prize, and her second novel Orange Laughter was chosen as a BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour Watershed Fiction favorite. Her first short story collection, Come Let Us Sing Anyway, was nominated for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and Jhalak Prize. Ross has taught creative writing in London for 20 years and worked as journalist throughout the 90s.
Nikesh Shukla is an author, screenwriter and one of the most prominent UK voices on diversity and inclusion in the arts. He is the editor of bestselling essay collection The Good Immigrant, which won the Reader’s Choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards, and was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the British Book Awards. He is the author of a number of novels for both adults and young adults including Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize), Meatspace, Run Riot, The Boxer, Brown Baby and co-editor of The Good Immigrant USA. Nikesh is the co-founder of the literary journal The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Roehampton University and the University of Bath. He hosts the ‘Brown Baby’ podcast which explores how we raise our kids with joy and wonder in uncertain and bleak times.
Ben Tufnell is a writer based in London. He has worked as a curator in both museums and galleries and has published widely on modern and contemporary art, focussing particularly on artists and art forms that engage with ideas of land, landscape and place. His debut novel, The North Shore, was published this past May.