ANNELIESE MACKINTOSH
Agent: Juliet Pickering
Assistant: Finlay Charlesworth
Biography: Anneliese Mackintosh's fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland, and published in UK newspapers, magazines and anthologies including The Scotsman, Edinburgh Review, The Best British Short Stories 2013 and Gutter, as well as US magazines Zygote in my Coffee, Citizens For Decent Literature, and Up The Staircase Quarterly. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Short Story Prize in 2012.
Anneliese Mackintosh’s debut short story collection, ANY OTHER MOUTH, was published by Freight Books in June 2014. It has received incredible reviews including “Mackintosh is a real talent and Any Other Mouth is a remarkable debut” from The Independent, and “beautifully crafted snapshots… one of the UK’s most exciting new voices” from The List. It won the Green Carnation Prize, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s First Book Award, in the Best Short Story Collection category for the 2015 Saboteur Awards and Edge Hill Short Story Prize, and longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award.
Anneliese's debut novel, SO HAPPY IT HURTS, was published by Jonathan Cape in July 2017, and promptly shortlisted for a DIVA Rising Star Award. Her second novel, BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECTS, was published in the US by Tin House.
BRIGHT AND DANGEROUS OBJECTS
Literary, 240 pages
As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, thirty-seven-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to James, her partner, about her plans? Or will she turn her back on the project, and commit to her life on Earth? Maybe even try for a baby, like James is hoping? Is there any way she can start a family and go to Mars? Does she even want both things?
SO HAPPY IT HURTS
Literary, 224 pages
Cape, July 2017
‘I want to be a good person. And I want to be happy. So happy it hurts. I need you to help me with that.’
Ottila McGregor is thirty years old and has decided it’s time to sort her life out. She’s going to quit drinking, stop cheating, and finally find true happiness. Easy, right?
Of course not.
ANY OTHER MOUTH
Short stories, 224 pages
Freight, June 2014
A viciously funny and heart-breaking collection of semi-autobiographical short stories from of one the UK's most exciting new voices. 'Any Other Mouth' is a gut-wrenching and shockingly frank account of sexual misadventure, familial disintegration, bereavement and self-discovery, in the vein of David Vann's 'Legend of a Suicide', Susanna Kaysen's 'Girl, Interrupted', and Miranda July's 'Nobody Belongs Here More Than You'.