Five by Five: Short Stories - Softcover

Katy Darby; Joan Taylor-Rowan; Sarah James; Helen Morris; Cassandra Passarelli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909208612 ISBN 13: 9781909208612

Publisher: Arachne Press, 2018

Synopsis

A showcase for authors Arachne Press has published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing.

The collection as a whole has tendency towards fantasy and magical realism, with Cassandra Passarelli s Liberty Tales Guatemalan stories taking on a more gritty reality, and Katy Darby s London Lies, Stations, Shortest Day, Longest Night engrossing SF and historical stories alongside Joan Taylor Rowan s London Lies, Lover's Lies, Stations acid humour and modern desperation and Sarah James Longest Day, Shortest Night elliptical poet s sensibility brought to flash fiction and Helen Morris Liberty Tales, Solstice Shorts ability to get to the heart of a story, and make you laugh out loud or weep inconsolably.

About this title

About the Author

Cherry Potts is the author of an epic fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow; a photographic diary The Blackheath Onegin, and has had several stories in anthologies, magazines and online. She is currently working on her next collection, a science fiction novel, and a timeslip-young-adult novel, and a novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s.

She runs workshops for writers exploring approaches to language and characterisation; and teaches Creative Writing as a visiting lecturer at City University. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of all our anthologies and runs the live literature event The Story Sessions, and the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival.

Katy Darby co-runs Liars League (www.liarsleague.com) and teaches Short Story Writing and Novel Writing at City University, London. Her first novel, The Whores Asylum, was published by Penguin. Her personal website is www.katydarby.com. Katy is the co-editor of our Liars' League anthologies, London Lies, Lovers Lies, (award winning) Weird Lies and We/She

Joan Taylor-Rowan is a teacher of Art and Textiles, and world traveller. She is the author of The Birdskin Shoes, a tale of circuses and earthquakes in Mexico. She has had several stories read on Radio 4 and performed at Short Fuse, Storytales, Liars League and Tales of the Decongested. She has also written the book and lyrics for a musical based on her own short story, Kandy Kottage.

Sarah James is a poet, fiction writer, journalist, occasional playwright, poetryfilm maker and arts reviewer, and editor at V. Press. Author of four poetry collections, three poetry pamphlets and two novellas, she was also longlisted for the memoir prize in the New Welsh Writing Awards 2017. She enjoys artistic commissions, mentoring and working as a writer in residence.

Helen Morris was one of five winners of the Solstice Shorts competition 2015. She lives and works in Essex. She tries to fit in writing stories between doing the washing for three sons, swimming too much, eating delicious food and drinking good beer.

A vagrant at heart, Cassandra Passarelli has spent much time wandering, from Guatemala to Burma, between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. She s published a couple of dozen stories and been short-listed for literary prizes, most recently the Beverley Prize. She lives in East Devon with her daughter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arachne Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1909208612
• ISBN 13: 9781909208612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Cherry Potts