Cornish Short Stories

A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing

Philipa Aldous, Cathy Galvin, Anastasia Gammon, Tim Hannigan, Clare Howdle, Adrian Markle, Tim Martindale, Candy Neubert, Sarah Perry, S. Reid, Alan Robinson, Rob Magnuson Smith, Katherine Stansfield, Emma Staughton, Sarah Thomas, Tom Vowler, Elaine Ruth White, Emma Timpany, Felicity Notley,

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Fiction, Local & Family History

Cornwall

Publication date: 02/04/2018

ISBN: 9780750983556

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Fiction, Local & Family History

Cornwall

Publication date: 02/04/2018

ISBN: 9780750988223

Pages: 192

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Ghosts walk in the open and infidelities are conducted in plain sight. Two teenagers walk along a perfect beach in the anticipation of a first kiss. Time stops for nothing – not even for death. Sometimes time cracks, disrupting a fragile equilibrium. The stories are peopled with locals and incomers, sailors and land dwellers; a diver searches the deep for what she has lost, and forbidden lovers meet in secret places. Throughout, the writers’ words reveal a love of the incomparable Cornish landscape. This bold and striking new anthology showcases Cornwall’s finest contemporary writers, combining established and new voices, including: Philipa Aldous, Cathy Galvin, Anastasia Gammon,Tim Hannigan, Clare Howdle, Adrian Markle, Tim Martindale, Candy Neubert, Felicity Notley, Sarah Perry, S. Reid, Alan Robinson, Rob Magnuson Smith, Katherine Stansfield, Emma Staughton, Sarah Thomas, Emma Timpany,Tom Vowler, Elaine Ruth White.

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Compelling stories that look beyond the expected Cornwall. The work of the eloquent writers who grace its pages suggests the literary scene is very much alive in Cornwall today.

Wyl Menmuir, author of The Many Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016,

This collection of stories is as haunting and various as the Cornish landscape it portrays. Readers will find much to enjoy in these stories about grief, love and belonging.

C.J. Flood, author of Infinite Sky and Nightwanderers Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2014,

This collection is proof, if ever it were needed, that creative writing and the development of new voices continue to thrive in Cornwall.

Helen Chaloner,

Emma Timpany

Born in New Zealand, into a family of florists, EMMA TIMPANY studied botany for two years as part of her undergraduate degree before graduating with a degree in anthropology. She worked as a florist in New Zealand and London, and, after moving to Cornwall, ran a small flower-growing business for five years. Emma’s short stories have won three awards including The Society of Authors’ Tom-Gallon Trust Award. Her books include The Lost of Syros, longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in 2016, and Travelling in the Dark, winner of the Hall and Woodhouse DLF Prize 2019. She co-edited Cornish Short Stories which was shortlisted for a Holyer an Gof Award 2019. She teaches creative writing, mentors emerging writers and works as a ghostwriter for a private autobiography company. Alongside Felicity Notley she organises the Falmouth-based wiriting group Telltales, which showcases and inspires new writers.

Candy Neubert

Sarah Perry

S. Reid

Alan Robinson

Rob Magnuson Smith

Katherine Stansfield

Emma Staughton

Sarah Thomas

Tom Vowler

Elaine Ruth White

Felicity Notley

FELICITY NOTLEY and Emma Timpany are the organisers of the Falmouth-based writing group Telltales which showcases and inspires new writers. Both accomplished writers in their own right, they have a long list publications to their name. Heavily immersed in the writing and arts community, they organise and attend numerous events throughout the year.