Synopsis
Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the main streets, side streets, back alleys dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own. Includes work from writers in Australia, Eire, Indonesia ,Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, USA, and right across the UK with contributions from Annabel Banks, Melaina Barnes, Laura Besley, Maja Bodenstein, Jayne Buxton, Sarah-Clare Conlon, Rosamund Davies, Roland Denning, Liam Hogan, Cath Holland, Belinda Huang, Catherine Jones, Aisling Keogh, Jess Kilby, Jasmin Kirkbride, Stuart Larner, Wes Lee, Emma Lee, Cathy Lennon, Ash Lim, C.A. Limina, Máire Malone, David Mathews, Nicholas McGaughey, Rachael McGill, Dave Murray, Pedro Basso Neves, Alexandra Penland, Cherry Potts, Matthew Pountney, Arna Radovich, Kam Rehal, Jane Roberts, Reshma Ruia, Jesse Sensibar, Shamini Sriskandarajah , Miriam Sorrentino, Stuart Larner, Patty Tomsky, Evleen Towey, Nic Vine, Rob Walton, Steven Wingate.
À propos des auteurs
Kam Rehal is Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at Camberwell School of Art and previously at the University of Greenwich, London. Passionate about all things concerning design, visual communication and storytelling, Kam has two flash pieces in Story Cities and designed the cover and internal layout. Kam is also one of the three editors of Story Cities.
Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival.
Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel, two collections of short stories, a photographic diary of a community opera, and has had many stories in anthologies, magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s, The Bog Mermaid, won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022.
Rosamund Davies has a background as a script editor in film and television and currently works part time as a senior lecturer in screenwriting at the University of Greenwich. A published author of non-fiction, she is also interested in digital forms of storytelling and is the author of hypermedia fiction indexoflove and the location-based short story, Meet Me at Crystal Palace, designed for a mobile phone interface. Rosamund’s interest in the relationship between storytelling and space is also what led her to conceive, together with her colleague at the University of Greenwich Kam Rehal, the idea for the Story Cities anthology, for which she is co-editor and a contributor.
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