Tessa Hadley

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Tessa Hadley teaches on the MA in Creative Writing, both workshops and a courses on The Short Story.

She has written five novels, Accidents in the Home, published by Jonathan Cape in February 2002, and by Holt in the US (this was longlisted for the Guardian First Book award); Everything Will Be All Right, Holt 2003, Cape 2004 (shortlisted for the Encore Award); The Master Bedroom, Cape and Holt, 2007 (longlisted for the Orange Prize and the Welsh Book of the Year award); The London Train, Cape and Harper Collins in the US, 2011 (longlisted for the Orange Prize); and Clever Girl, Cape and Harper Collins, 2013. She has stories published regularly in The New Yorker, and also in Granta and the Guardian; a collection, Sunstroke and other stories, was published in January 2007. (This was shortlisted for The Story Award in the US.) A second collection, Married Love, came out in January 2012 (longlisted for the Frank O'Connor prize).

Prize anthology mentions

O Henry Prize Stories 2014

O Henry Prize Stories 2019

O Henry Prize Stories 2021

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