When Stories Drop In

What Sunday Lunch Taught Me About Writing

I used to think my mother was terrible at meal planning. Every Sunday, she'd cook enough rajma chawal for maybe four people, then somehow manage to feed eight (and no, ‘rajma chawal’ isn’t ‘curry’. Every Indian dish is not a curry and there’s a post coming soon about this pet peeve of mine). The extra guests weren't invited - they just appeared, like characters in a story you hadn't planned to write.

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon

We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions, on the theme of Gilgamesh! Please read through the details for submissions carefully before submitting your stories.

Topics: Short Stories, Call For Submissions, Myths, Gods and Immortals

We are very excited to announce a new call for submissions, on the theme of Helen of Troy! Please read through the details for submissions carefully before submitting your stories.

Topics: Short Stories, Call For Submissions, Myths, Gods and Immortals

 

Grocery Shopping as Cultural Archaeology

Or: How I Learned That Seven Types of Hummus Is Apparently Normal

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon

We're delighted to let you know this new call for submissions is open! Please read through the submission details carefully before sending us your stories.

Topics: Gothic Fantasy, Short Stories, myths and legends, short fiction, Call For Submissions, anthologies

We're delighted to let you know this new call for submissions is open! Please read through the submission details carefully before sending us your stories.

Topics: Gothic Fantasy, Short Stories, myths and legends, short fiction, Call For Submissions, anthologies

We're delighted to let you know this new call for submissions is open! Please read through the submission details carefully before sending us your stories.

Topics: Gothic Fantasy, Short Stories, myths and legends, short fiction, Call For Submissions, anthologies

 

The Theatre Revolution I Never Saw Coming

Or: How I Learned That “What Did You Think of the Second Act?” Is Actual Small Talk

Topics: Between Worlds, Writer in Residence, lifeinlondon

 

Welcoming Stephanie M. Wytovich 

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes Bram Stoker Award-winning poet Stephanie M. Wytovich to the blog to talk about her poem “The Carousel”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness

 

Welcoming Alan Baxter 

 

Flame Tree Press welcomes award-winning author Alan Baxter to the blog to talk about his short story “Eighty-five Per Cent, Give or Take”, which appears alongside a stellar line-up in the groundbreaking anthology This Way Lies Madness, releasing in September from Flame Tree Press in our Beyond & Within series. In the introduction to the work, the book’s co-editors, Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray, say the anthology “defies convention by bringing together authentic, sensitive portrayals of mental illness in a genre that has notoriously lacked such tenets.” Comprising 23 stories and poems, the book also includes accompanying vignettes offering insight into the authors’ motivation for their work.

Topics: Gothic Dreams, Author Interview, Beyond & Within, This Way Lies Madness