Download or read book Literary Lancashire Award Anthology 2020 written by Lily Norman and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literary Lancashire Award is proud to present its 2020 anthology of shortlisted entries. Packed with magnificent and unique short fiction and poetry, this volume celebrates the work of some of the most promising young authors in the county. Sit back and enjoy the wonderful work of Ellen Darbyshire, Nicola Hester, Jana Craddock, Daisy Brown, Khatijah Balu, Abbey Bamford and many, many more! CONTENTS: Prose ‘Eggshells’ by Ellen Darbyshire ‘The Moth’ by Jana Craddock ‘The Speed of Light’ by Khatijah Balu ‘Xin’ by Alexander Hunterlarr ‘Gabriel’ by Hannah Wesson ‘There is Nothing New Under this Sun’ by Nicole Lee ‘View with Room’ by Nicola Hester ‘The Right Honourable’ by Dominic Andrew ‘The History of the Anaesthetist’ by Millie Holden ‘Absinthe Friday’ by Iestyn Jones Poetry ‘Days Long Lost’ by Nicola Hester ‘Pooh Sticks’ by Daisy Brown ‘The Reaping’ by Abbey Bamford ‘Light Bulbs’ by Matthew Page ‘Copper Memories’ by Milly Harrison ‘Since Error’ by Martin Palmer ‘The Keeper of Time’ by Charlotte Lloyd ‘Aftermath’ by Rachana Hegde ‘Pterodactyl God’ by Sam Allport ‘Lifeboat’ by Charlotte Armitage

Download or read book Literary Lancashire Award Anthology 2021 written by Amy Cavanagh and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literary Lancashire Award is proud to present its 2021 anthology of shortlisted entries. Packed with magnificent and unique short fiction and poetry, this volume celebrates the work of some of the most promising young authors in the county. Sit back and enjoy the wonderful work of Katie Kingsman, Kayla Jenkins, Ditte Jensen, Charlotte Lloyd, Courtenay S. Gray, Cait Cook and many, many more! Contents: Short Form Poetry ‘X+Y’ by Sam Allport ‘wail at the foot of Lia Fail’ by Beth Train-Brown ‘The Mouth of Heaven’ by Alex Roman Prose ‘Pando’ by Katie Kingsman ‘Examination’ by Ditte Jensen ‘& the tempo is all mine’ by Charlotte Lloyd ‘Two and Not One’ by Joseph Dodds ‘28 Miles’ by Anna Jenkins ‘New Endings’ by Justine Bondare ‘The Blood of Ravenscree’ by Jeni Meadows ‘You Just Need to Be in the Right Time at the Right Place’ by Martin Palmer Poetry ‘The begonia bush’ by Kayla Jenkins ‘高天原 – Takamagahara’ by Courtenay S. Gray ‘Every Other Friday’ by Cait Cook ‘Timperley Postal Options’ by Max Gorse ‘Parallel Universe’ by Toby Hudson ‘The Sound of Revolution’ by Asad Naqvi ‘Elegy for Faith’ by Rachana Hegde ‘To my Dearest Z’ by Yara Stepurova

Download or read book Adelaide Literary Award Anthology 2020 written by Stevan V. Nikolic and published by Adelaide Books. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special Issue of the Adelaide Literary Magazine. Best Poems by the Winner, 11 Shortlist Winner Nominees, and 53 Finalists of the Fourth Annual Adelaide Literary Award Competition 2020, selected by Stevan V. Nikolic, editor-in-chief. The Winner: Lowell Jaeger; Shortlist Winner Nominees: Catherine Rohsner, James Croal Jackson, Andre DeCuir, Jan Little, David Dephy, Lali Tsipi Michaeli, Anahit Petrosyan, Monique German, Richard Weaver, Melissa Chappell, Nathanael O'Reilly; Finalists: Donny Barilla, Terry Scott Boykie, S.J. Stephens, Sonali Chaprana, Helen Hagemann, Deji Ayoade, Daniel Cureton, Joseph Reilly, Kathryn Merriam, Mohamed Mahou, Martin Altman, Aracelly Campo, Ambrose Gibbs, Alex Hand, Peter Freeman, Carol Lynn Grellas, Laura Foley, Jeton Kelmendi, Valerie Angel, Frederick Pollack, Craig Kennedy, Zia Marshall, Steven Goff, Bob Kirkley, Anannya Uberoi, Sophie Chen, Roseangelina Baptista, Abby Ripley, George Gad Economou, William Welch, Kimberly Crocker, Ernest DeZolt, PC Scheponik, Megha Sood, Taylor Boughnou, Leslie Howard, Clara Leo, José Recio, Chani Zwibel, Lazaro Perez, RC deWinter, Robert Knox, Ambrose Gibbs, Ann Christine Tabaka, BellaBianca Lynn, Korkut Onaran, Lazar Sarna, Andrea Cladis Hodge, Timothy Robbins, Rebekah Coxwell, Edward Bonner, Louis Gallo, Daniel King.

Download or read book 2020 Grindstone Anthology written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curated collection of the best short fiction and poetry from the 2020 competition season.

Download or read book 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize written by Tbc and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prestigious and highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry from the shortlist of the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Download or read book Unlocked written by Simon E. Poole and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who could have anticipated the vicissitudes of the last year? And while the stark changes in our lives were pulling us together as a society, as we coped with what was unfolding, the quieter, often isolated time that followed allowed many to focus on writing. Lockdowns across the country may have created all kinds of problems for different people, but one of the positives that seems to have been unlocked across our county, and very probably across the country, was our individual creative potential. These pages are just one example of those isolated endeavours coming together into a collective expression of individual experience. This anthology is an incredibly unique publication, not only for how it documents this strange moment in time, but more importantly for how it reminds us of our need to explore, unravel, pose ?what-ifs?, in order to make sense of the world: and the benefits of writing for our own wellbeing.00The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff?s Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is administered by the University of Chester. The 2020 competition was for poetry, short fiction, children?s literature and scriptwriting as a celebration of the creativity from the pandemic and this anthology contains the entries shortlisted for the prize, including the winners and the runners-up.

Download or read book Chauvo Feminism written by Sam Mills and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows a chauvo-feminist . . . The 2017 #MeToo movement was a flagship moment, a time which empowered women to share their stories of sexual harassment and abuse in a spirit of solidarity and in demand of change. But have some men simply changed tactics? Acclaimed author Sam Mills investigates the phenomenon of the chauvo-feminist, the man whose public feminism works to advance his career, whilst his private self exhibits age-old chauvinistic tactics. Through testimonies and her own experience, Mills examines the psychological underpinnings of the chauvo-feminist, exploring questions of modern relationships, consent, and emotional abuse and asks how we might move beyond 'trial by Twitter' to encourage an honest and productive dialogue between men and women. 'We've all met That Guy. In this searching and provocative essay, Sam Mills neatly skewers the men who publicly spout feminism while treating women badly behind closed doors — and asks how we can move forward to a happier, more feminist future.' Samantha Ellis 'Thought-provoking, on point and abreast of contemporary ideas about the chauvinism of women's everyday lives. A book for our times.' Monique Roffey, author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, winner of the 2020 Costa Prize for Fiction 'In this lithe and luminous essay, Sam Mills explodes the hypocrisy of many men in the wake of the #MeToo movement . . . Clever, funny, gripping and beautifully written, Chauvo-Feminism is an exploration not just of the female experience, but of civilisation itself. This is a dazzling, essential book. Men with mutant politics: beware!' Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Animals

Download or read book The Ghost Prison written by Joseph Delaney and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This is the entrance to the Witch Well and behind that door you’d face your worst nightmare. Don’t ever go through there.' Night falls, the portcullis rises in the moonlight, and young Billy starts his first night as a prison guard. But this is no ordinary prison. There are haunted cells that can’t be used, whispers and cries in the night . . . and the dreaded Witch Well. Billy is warned to stay away from the prisoner down in the Witch Well. But who could it be? What prisoner could be so frightening? Billy is about to find out . . . An unforgettable ghost story from the creator of the Wardstone Chronicles (Spook's Apprentice) series.

Download or read book Restless written by William Boyd and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian émigrée living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer, a mysterious Englishman, and under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy, to mask her emotions and trust no one, including those she loves most. Since the war, Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife and mother. But once a spy, always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment, and this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help.

Download or read book The Quiddity of Will Self written by Sam Mills and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost of a beautiful young woman, Sylvie, hovers outside the window of Will Self's study. She is seeking to influence his latest novel, before she can rest in peace. Sylvie was a member of the WSC - a mysterious cult of charismatic writers who appear to worship Will Self. When Richard, a twenty-something idler and literary wannabe, discovers Sylvie's dead body he gets sucked into their dark world of absinthe, cloaks and bizarre initiation rites, slowly losing his sense of perspective on the strange events that encircle him. What is the true nature of the WSC? What did they do to Sylvie? And does Richard now face a similar fate?

Download or read book The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800 1849 written by Andrew Barger and published by Bottletree Books LLC. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformation of the werewolf in literature made its greatest strides in the 19th century when the shape-shifting monster leapt from poetry to the short story. It happened when this shorter form of literature was morphing into darker shapes thanks in no small part to Edgar Allan Poe, Honore de Balzac, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Prosper Merimee, James Hogg, and so many others in Europe and the United States.The fifty year period between 1800 and 1849 is truly the cradle of all werewolf short stories. For the first time in one anthology, Andrew Barger has compiled the best werewolf stories from this period. The stories are "Hugues the Wer-Wolf: A Kentish Legend of the Middle Ages," "The Man-Wolf," "A Story of a Weir-Wolf," "The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin," and "The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains." It is believed that two of these fine stories have never been republished in over one hundred and fifty years since their original printing. Read "The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849" tonight, just make sure it is not by the light of a full moon "

Download or read book This Isn t the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You written by Jon McGregor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful first collection of short stories by Jon McGregor. From the publication of his first Booker-nominated novel at the age of twenty-six, Jon McGregor's fiction has consistently been defined by lean poetic language, a keen sense of detail, and insightful characterization. Now, after publishing three novels, he's turning his considerable talent toward short fiction. The stories in this beautifully wrought collection explore a specific physical world and the people who inhabit it. Set among the lowlands and levees, the fens and ditches that mark the spare landscape of eastern England, the stories expose lives where much is buried, much is at risk, and tender moments are hard-won. The narrators of these delicate, dangerous, and sometimes deeply funny stories tell us what they believe to be important-in language inflected with the landscape's own understatement-while the real stories lie in what they unwittingly let slip. A man builds a tree house by a river in preparation for a coming flood. A boy sets fire to a barn. A pair of itinerant laborers sit by a lake and talk,while fighter-planes fly low overhead and prepare for war. This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You is an intricate exploration of isolation, self-discovery, and the impact of place on the human psyche. Praise for Even the Dogs: "A rare combination of profound empathy and wonderful writing." -Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Download or read book The Unseeing written by Anna Mazzola and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling debut based based on the real case of Sarah Gale, a seamstress and mother sentenced to hang for her alleged role in a shocking murder, bringing together the accused with an idealistic young lawyer assigned to investigate whether she is a guilty murderer or an unfortunate victim. Something is keeping Sarah Gale silent despite the risk of a death sentence. Is it guilt? Fear? Love? Sentenced to hang for her alleged role in a shocking murder, Sarah confronts the young lawyer asked to examine her guilty verdict. She says she is innocent, but she refuses to explain the evidence given in court — the evidence that convicted her. Battling his own demons, Edmund Fleetwood is determined to find the truth — and to uncover why Sarah won't talk. Darkness hides in Sarah's past, Edmund is certain, but surviving on the streets of London often means that one has to make difficult choices. Does it matter what else she's done, if she's innocent of murder? As the day of execution draws closer, Edmund struggles to discover whether she is the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice, or a dangerous and devious criminal. Bringing 1837 London alive in the most visceral way, The Unseeing is a tense novel of human frailty and fear — and of the terrible consequences of jealousy and misunderstanding.

Download or read book Soundings written by Doreen Cunningham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is a gorgeous journey…You will be glad you’ve joined her.” —Susan Orlean, author of On Animals and The Library Book In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she explores the stories of the whales and their young calves—their history, their habits, and their attempts to survive the changes humans have brought to the ocean. Cunningham’s voice is powerful: sharp, profound, sensitive, and unflinching. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. For this is Doreen’s story, too—a fierce, feminist tale, touching on her childhood and her time living in a Women’s Refuge with her baby, becoming a mother, just like the whales. Lyrical, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey.

Download or read book The Road Home written by Rose Tremain and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Rose Tremain does not disappoint. As always her writing has a delicious, crunchy precision.' Observer A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience. Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work. Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife, his beloved young daughter and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet. Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British: their hostile streets, their clannish pubs, their obsession with celebrity. London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship, sex, money and a new career and, if Lev is lucky, a new sense of belonging... 'A novel of urgent humanity' Sunday Telegraph Praise for Rose Tremain: 'One of my favourite writers' Nina Stibbe 'Tremain is one of the best novelists writing today' Sara Collins 'Pulsatingly alive . . . no one can break your heart quite like this' Neel Mukherjee

Download or read book The Boys who Saved the World written by Sam Mills and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2007 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jon knows what he has to do. If he isn't strong, everyone in his school is going to die. Or so he's been told by Jeremiah, the manipulative, deluded leader of the Brotherhood of Hebetheus - a group of lonely, damaged boys who have started a new religion that makes them feel invincible. But when the boys become convinced that a classmate is involved in a plot to blow up the school, they know they must act. No one will believe them and so they lay their own plans. Plans that lead to theft, kidnap, a media frenzy, and ultimately bloodshed. A shocking, exquisitely-written, topical thriller about the exploration of individual morality. A controversial novel guaranteed to get readers thinking.

Download or read book A Nicer Way to Die written by Sam Mills and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 16-year-old James and his step-brother Henry are the only survivors in a horrific coach crash that kills their entire class. And James knows the nightmare has only just begun. For Henry hates James, bullies him in secret and has promised to kill him one day.