Dusk: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2017 Contributor(s): Potts, Cherry (Editor) |
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ISBN: 190920854X ISBN-13: 9781909208544 Publisher: Arachne Press OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Magical Realism |
Physical Information: 0.27" H x 5.06" W x 7.81" (0.29 lbs) 128 pages |
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Publisher Description: Stories and poems performed at Solstice Shorts 2017 Dusk: A Wave of Words across the UK. On 21st December 2017, the shortest day of the year, eighteen stories and twenty-eight poems celebrating DUSK were read live on twelve sites, from pubs to arts centres and libraries, by way of woodlands and hillsides, at DUSK: the 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival A wave of words across the UK. Starting in Ellon in Aberdeenshire at 17:07, the festival raced over the country at the speed of dark, with overlapping events taking place in Inverness, Carlisle, Holyhead, Lancaster, Rossendale, Nottingham, Birmingham, Greenwich, Kelston, and Warkleigh, ending in Redruth in Cornwall as full dark fell at 18:20. "This is the perfect, atmospheric memento of one of the most imaginative, forward-thinking festivals in recent history: a nation's length celebration of the dying of the light at the turning point of winter." - Patrick Gale Dusk lends itself to the anxiety that darkness brings, and there is a fair smattering of edge-of-horror, chills-down-the-spine and keeping-the-lights-on, but there is also humour and the in-between-ness of the cusp of day, when anything is possible. Stories: David Hartley, 'Daylight Savings' Poems: Mandy Macdonald, 'Gloaming' |
Contributor Bio(s): Potts, Cherry: - Cherry Potts is the author of two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air (republished by Arachne Press in 2013, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow (currently out of print); a photographic diary of a community opera The Blackheath Onegin, and a fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade (Arachne Press 2016). Cherry has also had several stories in anthologies (including Arachne Press publications), magazines and online. She is currently working on her next collection, a science fiction novel, and a timeslip-young-adult kinda thing. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor/co-editor of all Arachne's anthologies. |