Stuart Evers
{{Short description|British writer (born 1976)}}
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Stuart Evers is a British novelist, short story writer and critic, born in Macclesfield, Cheshire in 1976. He was brought up in Congleton, Cheshire.
In late 2017, Evers was announced as the joint winner of the 2018 Eccles British Library Writer's Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/news/eccles-centre-news/eccles-british-library-writers-award-2018-winners-announced|title=Eccles British Library Writers Award 2018 winners announced|website=The British Library|date=21 November 2017 |language=en|access-date=2017-11-23}} - one of Europe's richest prizes for a work in progress.
Fiction
His short fiction has appeared in Prospect ([https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/underground-stuart-evers Underground]), and on Granta ([https://granta.com/this-is-not-a-test/ This is Not a Test]), The Sunday Times ([https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/whats-in-swindon-by-stuart-evers-j0jdzzsmp72 What's in Swindon?]) and The White Review ([http://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/somnopraxy/ Somnoproxy]) online, as well as in three editions of The Best British Short Stories. His story Our Italics was read by Anton Lesser on Radio 4 in 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hvn2|title=Our Italics, Leap - BBC Radio 4|website=BBC|access-date=2017-11-23}} He has also contributed to two Comma Press anthologies - [http://commapress.co.uk/books/beta-life/ Beta Life] and [http://commapress.co.uk/books/protest-stories-of-resistance Protest] - and Eight Ghosts,{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/27/celebrate-halloween-writers-new-spin-on-ghost-stories|title='I had a ghost touch me – horrible!' Writers visit haunted houses|last1=Shamsie|first1=Kamila|date=2017-10-27|work=The Guardian|access-date=2017-11-23|last2=Perry|first2=Sarah|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|last3=Winterson|first3=Jeanette|last4=Porter|first4=Max|last5=Haddon|first5=Mark|last6=Evers|first6=Stuart|last7=Hurley|first7=Andrew Michael|last8=Clanchy|first8=Kate}} a collection of ghost stories commissioned by English Heritage.
=Ten Stories About Smoking=
Evers published his first book, Ten Stories About Smoking,{{cite web|last=Preston|first=Alex|title=Ten Stories About Smoking|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2011/02/stories-smoking-evers-short|work=New Statesman|accessdate=25 April 2012}}{{cite news|last=Walton|first=James|title=A Page in the Life: Stuart Evers|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8373442/A-Page-in-the-Life-Stuart-Evers.html|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=25 April 2012|location=London|date=10 March 2011}}{{cite news|last=Segal|first=Francesca|title=Ten Stories About Smoking by Stuart Evers|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/02/stuart-evers-ten-stories-smoking-review|work=The Guardian|accessdate=25 April 2012|location=London|date=2 April 2011}} (Picador) in 2011, which won The London Book Award.
=If This Is Home=
His debut novel, If This Is Home {{cite web|url=http://www.picador.com/authors/Stuart-Evers|title=Stuart Evers|publisher=Picador|accessdate=25 April 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/books/book-review-if-this-is-home-by-stuart-evers-1-2371094|title=If this is Home|last=Massie|first=Allan|work=The Scotsman|accessdate=23 June 2012}}, appeared in July 2012. The novel is set in Cheshire and Las Vegas.
=Your Father Sends His Love=
A further collection of stories, Your Father Sends His Love {{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/07/your-father-sends-his-love-stuart-evers-review-tender-unadorned-tales|title=Your Father Sends His Love review – tender, unadorned tales|last=Cummins|first=Anthony|date=2015-06-07|work=The Observer|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/stuart-evers-interview-i-write-about-the-people-who-get-by-10254441.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/stuart-evers-interview-i-write-about-the-people-who-get-by-10254441.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Author Stuart Evers is the new voice of working Britons|date=2015-05-16|work=The Independent|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-GB}} was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize.{{Cite news|url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2016/05/edge-hill-short-story-prize-2016-short-list-announced/|title=Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2016 shortlist announced - News|date=2016-05-04|work=News|access-date=2017-11-23|language=en-GB}}
= The Blind Light =
Published in 2020, The Blind Light{{Cite web|url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-panoramic-novel-of-modern-britain-the-blind-light-by-stuart-evers-reviewed|access-date=2020-07-20|website=www.spectator.co.uk|title=A panoramic novel of modern Britain: The Blind Light, by Stuart Evers, reviewed | the Spectator|date=25 June 2020 }} was Evers' first novel for eight years. The Blind Light "moves from the Fifties through to the present day, taking in the global and local events that will shape and define them all. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the War on Terror, from the Dagenham strikes to Foot and Mouth, from Skiffle to Rave, we see a family come together, driven apart, fracture and reform – as the pressure of the past is brought, sometimes violently, to bear on the present." The Blind Light was shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award in 2021.{{Cite web|last=Chandler|first=Mark|date=2021-05-05|title=Oneworld takes two places on Encore Award shortlist|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworld-takes-two-places-encore-award-shortlist-1257918|access-date=2021-06-25|website=The Bookseller}}
Journalism
Evers reviews books regularly for a variety of publications, including The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Spectator and The Observer. His essay on Sherwood Anderson appeared in [http://commapress.co.uk/books/morphologies Morphologies] and he has written long pieces on James Salter{{Cite news|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/12373-james-salter-all-that-is-review-interview|title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} Tome On The Range {{!}} All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time|work=The Quietus|access-date=2017-11-23}} and David Peace{{Cite news|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/13134-david-peace-red-or-dead-review|title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} Tome On The Range {{!}} Not Afraid Of Repetition: David Peace's Red Or Dead Reviewed|work=The Quietus|access-date=2017-11-23}} for The Quietus.
Music
In 2015, Evers collaborated with the band Daughter, using his three short stories, Dress, Windows, and 5,040, as basis for the music videos of songs "Doing the Right Thing", "Numbers", and "How" respectively.{{Cite news|url=http://4ad.com/forewords/threefilms/|title=Daughter 3 Films|language=en|access-date=2017-01-23}} These videos were released ahead of the English band's release of their second album Not to Disappear in 2016. All three stories used in this collaboration included no dialogue in accordance with the inability of a music video to express dialogue.{{Cite web|url=http://www.picador.com/blog/january-2016/acclaimed-short-story-writer-stuart-evers-teams-up|title=Acclaimed short story writer Stuart Evers teams up with indie band Daughter|last=|first=|date=January 19, 2016|website=picador.com|publisher=Pan Macmillan|access-date=January 22, 2017}} He has also read with musical accompaniment from Fighting Kites.{{Cite web|url=http://fightingkites.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/sin-cities-240909/|title = Sin Cities 24/09/09|date = 22 September 2009}}http://www.beatthedust.com/beat-the-dust.asp?bid=398 {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}http://stuartevers.blogspot.co.uk/ {{User-generated source|date=August 2022}}
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