Here, translation unlocks stories from languages afar, people unknown yet familiar in voices that stun you and resonate with you. Here is your book of world stories

 

FICTION

Unregistered – Giuseppe Pensabene Perez

Giuseppe Pensabene PerezΒ  was born in Italy in 1984, is a Pisces, a linguist, a tobacco smoker and polyglot. A voracious, omnivorous reader. His favorite authors are Steven King and Roberto BolaΓ±o...

The Shawl – Ansar Uddin

Ansar Uddin is from West Bengal, India. His connection with farming and farm labor runs deep. He has five collection of short stories and three novels to his name thus far. Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri...

If – Allison Whittenberg

Allison WhittenbergΒ is a Philadelphia native and her novels include Sweet Thang,Β Hollywood and Maine,Β Life is Fine,Β TutoredΒ andΒ The Sane Asylum.Β ...

The Split – Gillian Wills

Gillian Wills is an author and arts writer from Brisbane, Australia. Her memoir Elvis and Me: How a world-weary musician and a broken racehorse rescued each other was published in 2016...

Transitory Space, Brooklyn, NYC – Leah Oates

Transitory Space photographs are, in essence, artifacts found and formed at the ambiguous territory where the human consciousness interacts with space that appears forever present yet keeps morphing through the ungraspable, corridor of time...

Are Those Feathers Real? – J. T. Townley

J.T. Townley has published in Harvard Review,Β The Kenyon Review, The Three penny Review, and many other magazines and journals. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (three times) and the Best of the Net Award...

Daughter of the Dead – Prativa Sarkar

Prativa Sarkar is mostly known for her short stories and political essays. She has a collection of short stories based on subaltern crises - "Farishta O Meyera."...

The Tale of the Brown Shoes – Moushumi Quader

Maushumi is a composer, storyteller, translator, online activist and one of the editors of 'Galpapath' webzine...

He’s the One – Alfred Searls

Alfred Searls hails from the city of Manchester. His short stories have been published in publications such as Jupiter Science Fiction Magazine, Dash Literary Journal, Cinder Quarterly Magazine, Metonym Literary Journal, The Catholic Herald and Northern Soul...