Writing on Water (Seren Short Stories) - Softcover

Harris, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781723702 ISBN 13: 9781781723708

Publisher: Seren, 2017

Synopsis

Maggie Harris’ short-story collection Writing on Water is told through voices from the Caribbean where she was born and Britain where she has lived as an adult, and through them, the wider world. These are stories of migration, belonging and survival, of children and families brought together or torn apart. This is a varied collection containing stories such as 'Sending for Chantal', a story of Caribbean migration about a child who hasn't seen her mother since she was 4 and is now in her 30s, which was the Regional Winner of The Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2014. Maggie, who lives in West Wales, writes poetry and prose and also won the poetry section of the Guyana Prize for Literature 2014.

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About the Author

Maggie Harris is a Guyana-born poet and prose writer living in Wales. Twice winner of the Guyana Prize for her poetry, most recently Sixty years of Loving, 2014, (Cane Arrow Press), she was also the Caribbean Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story prize in 2014, and her last collection of stories, In Margate by Lunchtime (Cultured Llama), was long-listed for the Edge Hill Prize. She has been published by several journals including The Lampeter Review, Wasafiri, The Caribbean Writer and Poetry Wales, and has performed her work across the UK, Europe and the Caribbean.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seren
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781723702
• ISBN 13: 9781781723708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136