Forest Publications: Stolen Stories
January 18, 2009
I helped edit this new anthology.
The New Anthology From Forest Publications
Never, ever trust a writer. They cluck and nod and listen and then three months later they splash your tragedy/foolishness/very embarrassing incident involving a raspberry jelly and a pair of warm curling tongs over the tawdry pages of a literary quarterly. We feel there is no shame in this. Quite the opposite: we believe this ugly fact deserves to be celebrated with all the pomp and hullaballoo we can possibly muster. Therefore we are compiled an anthology of the finest stolen stories, the anecdotes and overheard conversations that simply demand to be told. We feel that it is time to be honest. This is where our ideas come from.
Available now:
Edinburgh:
Blackwells, South Bridge
Waterstones, Princes Street
Word Power, Nicholson Street
Elvis Shakespeare, Leith Walk
The Fruitmarket Gallery
Glasgow:
Waterstones Sauchiehall
Worldwide:
www.amazon.co.uk
Distributed by Word Power Books, Edinburgh:
Tel / Fax No: 00 44 (0) 131 662 9112
http://www.word-power.co.uk/
E-mail:
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Featuring
Craig Bayne – co-editor of Glasgow literature and arts magazine ‘Are Volitional’
Louis E. Bourgeois – founder and editor of VOX PRESS. His collection, The Gar Diaries, was nominated for The National Book Award in 2008.
Lindsay Bower
Ron Butlin – Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate).
Regi Claire– her published books are Inside~Outside (shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award) and The Beauty Room (longlisted for the Allen Lane/MIND Book of the Year Award)
Rusty Harris
Nick Holdstock– his work has recently appeared in Stand, the Edinburgh Review, and Textualities.
Alison Key– her story, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, won first prize in the Cinnamon Press short story award 2008
Alison Miller – Alison’s first novel Demo was published by Penguin in 2006.
Nicole Louise Reid – editor of Southern Indiana Review and the author of In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage). Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Meridian and many more. She is the winner of the 2001Willamette Award in Fiction
Sarah Salway – Her third novel, Getting the Picture, will come out with Random House in Summer 2009.
Lauren Simpson – her fiction has been published in The Golden Hour Book and V: New International Writing from Edinburgh.
Jo Swingler– has been longlisted for the Bridport Prize and Cinnamon Press First Collection Award.
Lucille Valentine
Dinh Vong– former international editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Angus Woodward– Margaret Media published his collection of short stories, Down at the End of the River, in 2008.
Book Details:
Isbn: 978-0-9556456-1-7
size: aprox. 240 pages.
publisher: Forest Publications
price: £5.99
artwork: Martin McKenna
Distributed by Word Power Books, Edinburgh:
Tel / Fax No: 00 44 (0) 131 662 9112
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