Category: Short stories
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Stocking Fillers for Adults
Let’s go back to the dawn of Earlyworks Press time for today’s ‘Christmas books’ blog. Back then, the press was very much Hastings-based, and the heart and soul of the membership was our Terry Sorby. ‘Porkies’ was very much his plan. A page-turning collection of sizzling jokes, rhymes and mini-stories, it’s just perfect for Christmas…
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The Map of Bihar
Sparkling with humour, singing with empathy and the pains of being human… A skilled, dexterous writer, Janet H Swinney explores her Anglo-Indian connections through this wide ranging and fascinating collection of stories – whether in a fashionable London suburb, urban India or an Edinburgh tenement, we see life chances sought, seized, squandered and subverted. There…
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Do not buy silly shorts
Of all the strategies you could employ, shorts in winter are the worst. ESPECIALLY if they look like this… Do not wear them In fact, do not wear shorts in winter at all… Read them Earlyworks Press has a fantastic back-list of high-quality short story collections. A well-written short story is the perfect companion by…
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In the Absence of Hard Evidence
In the absence of hard evidence of a divine engineer in the sky, I’d say the patterns in your mind are who you are. This is my thought for the day because it became necessary to clean and decorate the back room, and to do that, it was necessary to move two wallfuls of books,…
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Earlyworks Press 2019 short story winners
Here are the results of the Earlyworks Press £200 short story competition.
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2019 Poetry competition results
The results of the 2019 Earlyworks Press poetry comp which closed on June 30th…
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