REPLAY: Huma Qureshi on short stories and taking fiction seriously

Huma Qureshi is a former Guardian and Observer journalist and is the author of the memoir How We Met and her latest book Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love, is a short story collection about the distance between people - between mothers and daughters and between lovers. It includes the "The Jam Maker" which won the Harper's Bazaar Short Story Prize 2020. We talk about what drove Huma to set herself the challenge of writing 10 short stories in a fairly short period of time, the importance of short story prizes as a way of setting yourself deadlines and challenges, and how motherhood both affected her confidence as a writer but also gave her an urgency to get the words on to the page.

Links

Miniature Worlds: Writing short stories with Huma Qureshi

Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love - Huma Qureshi

How We Met - Huma Qureshi

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

A Ghost in the Throat - Doireann Ni Ghriofa

You can find Huma Qureshi on instagram @humaqureshiwriter

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