Words and Women anthologies one, two and three. I am delighted to have been selected three years running for the Words and Women competition and to have been included in the anthologies.
The stories are: The Sitting, The Siren and Folding.
Reviews: if you have enjoyed reading Words and Women One and Words and Women Two or Gene Genie the publishers would be really grateful if you would take the time to review the book (s) on Amazon.
Below is a review for Words and Women One, from the Eastern Daily Press 12.04.2014
The 21 pieces are the winning entries in a new competition launched by Words And Women in 2013. Vivid prose candidly explores every subject imaginable. A daughter discovers decades of infidelity at an exhibition. A young woman faces a terrible diagnosis. A lover mourns her loss through a sensory feast of recollection, and an old man is reminded that the weight of love is exactly 159 mangoes. A child is snared in futuristic sleep, while a life rushes past in a pattern of violence.
This is a book for adventurous readers who like to mix subtlety with verve and originality with imagination.
Contributors: Deborah Arnander, Sarah Baxter, Susan Dean, Anni Domingo, Layn Feldman, Wendy Gill, Caroline Jackson, Alice Kent, C.G. Menon, Lily Meyer, Patricia Mullin, Karen O’Connor, Judith Omasete, Bridget Read, Dani Redd, Elizabeth Reed, Bethany Settle, Kim Sherwood, Nedra Westwater, Rowan Whiteside, and Lois Williams.
To order your copy go to unthankbooks.com. Also available on Kindle and ipad from Amazon on March 8th. Words and Women One inaugural anthology of women writers in the East (and containing my short story ‘The Sitting’ is available from Unthank Books – click on the link below. To order any of the anthologies go to unthankbooks.com
http://unthankbooks.com/bookshop/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
The stories are: The Sitting, The Siren and Folding.
Reviews: if you have enjoyed reading Words and Women One and Words and Women Two or Gene Genie the publishers would be really grateful if you would take the time to review the book (s) on Amazon.
Below is a review for Words and Women One, from the Eastern Daily Press 12.04.2014
The 21 pieces are the winning entries in a new competition launched by Words And Women in 2013. Vivid prose candidly explores every subject imaginable. A daughter discovers decades of infidelity at an exhibition. A young woman faces a terrible diagnosis. A lover mourns her loss through a sensory feast of recollection, and an old man is reminded that the weight of love is exactly 159 mangoes. A child is snared in futuristic sleep, while a life rushes past in a pattern of violence.
This is a book for adventurous readers who like to mix subtlety with verve and originality with imagination.
Contributors: Deborah Arnander, Sarah Baxter, Susan Dean, Anni Domingo, Layn Feldman, Wendy Gill, Caroline Jackson, Alice Kent, C.G. Menon, Lily Meyer, Patricia Mullin, Karen O’Connor, Judith Omasete, Bridget Read, Dani Redd, Elizabeth Reed, Bethany Settle, Kim Sherwood, Nedra Westwater, Rowan Whiteside, and Lois Williams.
To order your copy go to unthankbooks.com. Also available on Kindle and ipad from Amazon on March 8th. Words and Women One inaugural anthology of women writers in the East (and containing my short story ‘The Sitting’ is available from Unthank Books – click on the link below. To order any of the anthologies go to unthankbooks.com
http://unthankbooks.com/bookshop/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
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Words and Women
Title and Judges:
Folding - Emma Healey 2016
The Siren - Sarah Ridgard 2015
The Sitting - Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood.2014
Casting Shadows - by Patricia Mullin
'The soul's capricious reporter, memory filters out what hurts, combines the incidents that remain, and then adapts them to the form it wants to remember: memory composes its own truth.' Martha Zamora. From the preface: Frida Kahlo. The Brush with Anguish.
I had wanted to write about memory for some years. This quote from Martha Zamora was the trigger; 'The soul's capricious reporter' seemed particularly close to my feelings about memory with its illusory nature. Casting Shadows is about mistaking memory for truth.
Title and Judges:
Folding - Emma Healey 2016
The Siren - Sarah Ridgard 2015
The Sitting - Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood.2014
Casting Shadows - by Patricia Mullin
'The soul's capricious reporter, memory filters out what hurts, combines the incidents that remain, and then adapts them to the form it wants to remember: memory composes its own truth.' Martha Zamora. From the preface: Frida Kahlo. The Brush with Anguish.
I had wanted to write about memory for some years. This quote from Martha Zamora was the trigger; 'The soul's capricious reporter' seemed particularly close to my feelings about memory with its illusory nature. Casting Shadows is about mistaking memory for truth.
