by Farhana Khalique It’s always interesting to hear writers share their processes. However, the first session of Dahlia Publishing’s ‘A Brief Pause’ reading series with Amanthi Harris was so fascinating …
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A Brief Pause is a professional development programme for 20 short fiction writers and 12 female creative writing practitioners. Writers will attend 12 two-hour online masterclasses, via Zoom, in fortnightly …
DESCRIPTION: If there’s one thing the characters in Jennifer Makumbi’s stories know, it’s how to field an uncomfortable question. ‘Let me buy you a cup of tea…what are you doing …
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DESCRIPTION: A beloved child is lost: taken too soon or never born. A woman bereaved and a man distraught are pulled apart, isolated, abandoned to search for intimacy elsewhere. A …
DESCRIPTION: “In the Kitchen is an anthology which showcases the best of food-inspired writing, with each beguiling story interpreting the theme in a different way. Food, in the hands of …
DESCRIPTION: In this third collection, That Old Country Music, we encounter a ragbag of west of Ireland characters, many on the cusp between love and catastrophe, heartbreak and epiphany, resignation and …
DESCRIPTION: M. Randal O’Wain’s debut short story collection, Hallelujah Station and Other Stories, introduces readers to a wide and diverse cast of characters struggling with and responding to changes and …
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DESCRIPTION: As the end of the world arrives in downtown Shanghai, one man’s only wish is to return a library book… When a publisher agrees to let a star author …