The White Review Short Story Prize, sponsored by RCW, is an annual short story competition for emerging writers. The prize awards £2,500 to the best piece of short fiction...
Monika Rinck has published numerous volumes of poetry in German, the most recent of which is Risiko und Idiotie (kookbooks). In 2015 she was awarded the Kleist Prize and the Heimrad Bäcker Prize. She lives in Berlin.
On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place. Male inhabitants don an animal-like...