Dusk: Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2017 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190920854X ISBN 13: 9781909208544

Publisher: Arachne Press, 2018

Synopsis

The Solstice Shorts Festival celebrates the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year with time themed stories poems and songs. 2017 saw the festival go UK wide, with 12 sites taking part at DUSK, in a wave of words across the UK from Ellon in Aberdeenshire to Redruth in Cornwall. These are the chosen stories and poems from the festival.

About this title

About the Author

Cherry Potts is the author of two collections of short stories: Mosaic of Air (republished by Arachne Press in 2013, and Tales Told Before Cockcrow (currently out of print); a photographic diary of a community opera The Blackheath Onegin, and a fantasy novel, The Dowry Blade (Arachne Press 2016). Cherry has also had several stories in anthologies (including Arachne Press publications), magazines and online. She is currently working on her next collection, a science fiction novel, and a timeslip-young-adult kinda thing. Cherry is the Director of Arachne Press, for whom she is editor/co-editor of all Arachne's anthologies.

Review

" Dusk, a collection of eighteen stories and twenty-eight poems is the wonderful culmination of the 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival, which involved a host of live readings across the UK, from Aberdeen to Cornwall . . . . the quality and the general vision of Dusk unifies the individual short stories, leaving a pleasurably haunting sense of its characters making their way in the world, doing their best to get by as the light begins to turn in that in-between time ‘when anything is possible’"

- Rupert Dastur in www.theshortstory.co.uk (https://theshortstory.co.uk/the-short-story-review-dusk-edited-by-cherry-potts/)

 

“Rating: 5 stars”

“I fell completely and utterly in love the moment I read the title of this beautiful little treasure . . . there is a wealth of stories and poems dedicated to the dusk. This volume is comprised of the best creations of 2017 and it is a pure joy for every dusk and winter lover.  18 stories, 29 poems dedicated to winter and twilight. Every work is top-notch but there were some stories that were simply outstanding.”

– (https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/dusk-stories-and-poems-from-solstice-shorts-festival/)

About this edition

• Publisher: Arachne Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 190920854X
• ISBN 13: 9781909208544
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Potts Cherry