Recent anthologies

Words From the Brink: stories and poems from the Solstice Shorts Festival 2021

ISBN: 978-1-913665-51-7 £9.99 ANTHOLOGY/poems and short stories. Also available as Audiobook

Poems and stories responding to the floods, droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all her power and glory, butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while writers ask: How do we stop it? Are we heading for recovery or extinction?

What Meets the Eye? The Deaf Perspective

ISBN: 978-1-913665-48-7 £9.99 ANTHOLOGY/poems and short stories. BSL videos also available.

Poems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing writers on the theme of Movement. They have interpreted this in many ways:movementascommunication,asconnection, mobility, and stillness, being moved emotionally, movementwithinandafterLockdown,freedomof movement,andbeingpartof apoliticalmovement, and even getting lost!

Where We Find Ourselves: Stories and Poems of MapsandMappingfromUKWritersof theGlobalMajority

ISBN: 978-1-913665-44-9 £9.99 ANTHOLOGY/poems and short stories also available as Audiobook

From UK writers from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, South American, Chinese and Malay communities, writing about maps and mapping. Stories and poems of finding oneself and getting lost, colonialism and diaspora, childhood exploration and adult homecoming.

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Short Stories

100nehundred by Laura Besley

FLASH/FANTASY 978-1-913665-27-2 £9.99

A man carries his girlfriend in the left-hand breast pocket of hisshirt.DuringWorldWarII,ayoungsoldiersearches the houses and barns of the families with whom he grew up. An astronaut wonders whether she can adapt to life back on earth. Laura Besley explores a kaleidoscope of emotions through 100 stories of exactly 100 words. Shortlisted for Saboteur2022 best short story collection.

Incorcisms by David Hartley

SHORT/FLASH 978-1-913665-24-1 £9.99

Strange stories about strange things for strange people. Tales of possession and obsession. Of destruction and restoration. Of the demons we hold inside us, and those we leave behind in others.

Accidental Flowers Lily Peters

NOVEL IN SHORT STORIES/SF 978-1-913665-33-3 £9.99

In a near future, women march together. Sea levels rise, toxicrain fallsandtheearth poisons the foodthatgrows in it.eelite,andwinnersofthelifelottery,areevacuatedto giant towers. For many, a decision has to be made between living safe or living free.

Strange Waters by JackieTaylor

SHORT STORIES 978-1-913665-36-4 £9.99

Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and ooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and ow with the tide. ree generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close affinity for the sea.

Short Stories

Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed Liam Hogan

SHORTSTORIES/Fantasy ISBN:978-1-909208-36-0 £9.99

Often humorous, often dark, (often both) fantasy stories. Described as ‘Deliciously Twisted’, a happy ending might beroundthenextturninthatdarkpaththroughtheforest, or beyond that twist in the tale, but then, perhaps not.

Mosaic of Air Cherry Potts

SHORT STORIES/SF/Fantasy/LGBT ISBN: 978-1-909208-03-2

£11.99 £5

Sixteen short stories from a lesbian perspective: from Helen of Troy right through to Space Opera.

Stations: Short Stories Inspired by the Overground Line

ANTHOLOGY/Fiction ISBN: 978-1-909208-01-8 £10.99 £5

A story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace, and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the East London line all the way to Highbury & Islington.

Story Cities

Ed. Ram Kehal, Rosamund Davies and Cherry Potts

ANTHOLOGY/ ash ISBN: 978-1-909208-78-0 £9.99

A guide book to the ctional 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 identi ed, the city has a voice of its own.

Anthologies

London Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-00-1 ANTHOLOGY/Fiction £9.99 £5

Our rst Liars’ League showcase, featuring unlikely tales set in London.

Lovers’ Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-02-5 ANTHOLOGY/Fiction £9.99 £5

Our second collaboration with Liars’ League, bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love.

Weird Lies

ISBN: 978-1-909208-10-0 ANTHOLOGY/SF/Fantasy £9.99 £5

WINNER of the Saboteur2014 Best Anthology Award.

Our third Liars’ League collaboration – more than twenty stories varying in style from tales not out of place in One ousand and One Nights to the completely bemusing.

We/She

ISBN: 978-1-909208-62-9 ANTHOLOGY/ ction £9.99

In collaboration with Liars’ League. Acelebrationofthecentenaryofwomen intheUKgettingthe vote. Stories by women, performed at one of Liars’ League’s events in London, Hong Kong or New York: everything from broken plates to dragons.

Anthologies

Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories about Time

ISBN: 978-1-909208-23-0 £9.99 ANTHOLOGY/Fiction

Winning stories that chart the meaning of time, exploring what it can do to us, and for us, from the rst Solstice Shorts Festival competition, plus stories from judges Alison Moore, Imogen Robertson, Robert Shearman, and Anita Sethi, who all edited the book.

Shortest Day, Longest Night:Poems&StoriesfromtheSolstice Shorts Festival 2015 & 2016 ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-28-5 ANTHOLOGY £9.99

Celebrating the shortest day of the year, with stories, poems and songs to an appropriate theme. 23 stories and 34 poems featuring old gods, bitter weather, darkness, light, neighbourliness, looping days, birth, death and if not the meaning of the universe, possibly the end of it.

DUSK: Stories and poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2017 ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-54-4 ANTHOLOGY £9.99

On21stDecember2017,theshortestdayoftheyear,18stories and 28 poems celebrating DUSK were read live on 12 sites, from pubs to woodlands, in a wave of words across the UK.

No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book AnAnthology of Spiderlit for Arachne’s Eighth Anniversary

ISBN: 978-1-909208-93-3 ANTHOLOGY/poems and short stories £9.99

Inspired by Lady Hale and her spider brooch, we realised we werecominguptoour8thAnniversaryinAugust2020.What better way to celebrate than with a book of Spider related stories and poems?

Anthologies

Noon: StoriesandPoemsfromSolsticeShortsFestival2018 ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-69-8 ANTHOLOGY STORIES & POEMS £8.99

A ash of inspiration in the winter darkness. In keeping with the transitory nature of the theme, ideas as diverse as momentary mistakes, cataclysmic change, promptness, celebration, chance meetings, and serendipity.

Time and Tide stories and poems from the Solstice Shorts Festival 2019 ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-83-4 ANTHOLOGY/Historical stories & poems

£9.99

Stories and poems of immigration/emigration and working on and beside the water, set in the past. Performed at the Solstice shorts festival 2019 in seven port towns in four countries. Clydebank, Greenwich, Hastings, Holyhead, Maryport, Oeiras and Peterhead.

Tymes Goes By Turnes: stories and poems from the Solstice Shorts Festival 2020 ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-913665-18-0 £9.99

A Corona virus in uenced anthology; stories and poems in response to the poem TYMES GOE BY TURNES by sixteenth century poet, Robert Southwell – the poem observes the ebb and ow of fortune, nothing stays bad for ever, nor anything good – so get on with it while you can. As with Southwell’s poem there is a ne balance between dread and hope.

Anthologies

An Outbreak of Peace ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-66-7 ANTHOLOGY £9.99

Stories and poems as a commemoration of the ending of WWI, re ecting on what comes after – and what that meant. is wide-ranging collection brings together stories and poems frommanycountries, on both sides of the 191418 con ict, nding their inspiration in many wars and their endings; together with work which is not about war at all, which is as it should be.

Liberty Tales: Stories and Poems inspired by Magna Carta ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-31-5 ANTHOLOGY £9.99

Liberty, personal and legal, is the starting point of this wide-ranging collection of responses to the Magna Carta, some directly relating to speci c clauses of the document signed by King John, others more concerned with how we experience and search after freedom in the 21st century, because Freedom never goes out of fashion.

Five by Five ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-59-9 ANTHOLOGY/ ction £9.99

A showcase for authors we have published previously in anthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. CassandraPassarelli, Katy Darby, JoanTaylor-Rowan,Sarah James, Helen Morris.

Departures: from e Story Sessions ed Cherry Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-74-2 ANTHOLOGY £9.99

Stories and poemsabout leaving, or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at e Story Sessions, the South London live literature evening.

A Voice Coming From en Jeremy Dixon

ISBN: 978-1-913665-40-1 POETRY/LGBT £9.99

[CONTENT WARNING]

Starts from Jeremy’s teenage suicide attempt and expands toencompassthemesof bullying,queerphobia,acceptance and support. Includes unexpected typography, collage, humour, magic, discotheques and frequent appearances from the Victorian demon, Spring-heeled Jack.

Winner Wales Book of the Year - Poetry 2022

This Poem Here Rob Walton

ISBN: 978-1-913665-30-2 POETRY £8.99

When Rob Walton went into lockdown, he didn’t know that he would also go into mourning. Here he writes about the life and death of his dad, and how sadness seeped into various aspects of his life.

He also manages to find cheap laughs, digs at the government, celebrations of the young and old, unashamed sentimentality and suddenly disarming moments of tenderness.

e Signi cance of a Dress Emma Lee

ISBN: 978-1-909208-82-7 POETRY £8.99

Poems informed by and immersed in politics. Beautiful, hair-raising words and form, utterly from the heart. Nothing is unimportant in The Significance of a Dress, where each poem’s narrative is personal and individual, yet simultaneously universal in its reach and significance. Emma Lee’s evocative imagery is reinforced by taut lines, striking juxtapositions and intimate, moving details that pack emotional punch. The Significance of a Dress is a beautiful haunting collection. S.A. Leavesey

Poetry

Let out the Djinn Jane Aldous

ISBN: 978-1-909208-81-0 POETRY/LGBT £8.99

ere is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous – Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit. Jane invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter-gatherers,star-gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.

A Gift of Rivers Kate Foley

ISBN: 978-1-909208-53-7 POETRY/LGBT £8.99

Kate Foley is a much published and respected poet with many awards to her name. is, her 8th collection is made from meeting, migration and marriage: poems re ecting the journey of one poet and her wife, across linguistic and geographical boundaries.

In Retail Jeremy Dixon

ISBN: 978-1-909208-72-8 POETRY/LGBT £8.99

While working in a well-known pharmacy chain, Jeremy Dixon’s poems were written on the ends of till rolls and smuggled out in his socks.

Recognisable retail characters and situations, and management-speak absurdities; brought to witty and wicked life by Jeremy’s perspective as a queer writer.

Poetry

e Knotsman Math Jones

ISBN: 978-1-909208-73-5 POETRY £9.99

e Knotsman goes from house to house, village to village, poem to poem, battle eld to gallows, unravelling knots and problems, physical, emotional and psychological; a new kind of cunning man, not always welcome, not always quite as clever as his ngers and picks would have him believe.

Mamiaith Ness Owen

ISBN: 978-1-909208-77-3 POETRY £8.99

Bilingual English/Welsh

ese are poems of family and motherhood, politics, place and belonging: a determination to write in the Mamiaith (mother tongue) that she speaks, but did not learn to write uently.einterplayoflanguagesandtheshiftsofmeaning from one to the other feed the musicality of the poems.

Erratics Cathy Bryant

ISBN: 978-1-909208-56-8 POETRY/LGBT £8.99

A wide-ranging collection of poems political and fantastical, leaping from humour to anger with equal passion, and bounding with energy and sassiness whether considering Cathy Bryant’s own experience of disability, or an imagined future for cleaners... of stars.

Vindication

ISBN: 978-1-909208-65-0 ANTHOLOGY/poetry £9.99

Ashowcaseforpoetswehavepublishedsinglyinanthologies, giving a wider perspective on their writing. Sarah James, Elinor Brooks, Jill Sharp, Sarah Lawson, Anne Macaulay and Adrienne Silcock.

Poetry

With Paper for Feet Jennifer A McGowan

ISBN: 978-1-909208-35-3 POETRY £9.99

Jennifer A McGowan delves into myth and magic, legend and folklore, from Africa, China, Greece, Brittany and Britain to give new voices to both familiar and forgotten characters through complex narrative poems.

Foraging Joy Howard

ISBN: 978-1-909208-39-1 POETRY/LGBT £8.99

Joy Howard has something to say about the environment, and grief,andtime,andmemory.Hercombinationoftenderbutacute observation and mordantwit is reminiscentof U.A. Fanthorpe.

e Don’t Touch Garden Kate Foley

ISBN: 978-1-909208-19-3 POETRY/LGBT £9.99 Also available as an audiobook

Born in 1938 and adopted soon after, Kate Foley grew up in London during WWII.

e Don’t Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions.

e Other Side of Sleep: Narrative Poems

ISBN: 978-1-909208-18-6 ANTHOLOGY/poetry £9.99 £5 Long, narrative poems by contemporary voices, including Inua Elams, Brian Johnstone, and Kate Foley, whose title poem for the anthology was the winner of the 2014 Second Light Long Poem competition.

Children’s books

Zed and the Cormorants Clare Owen

ISBN: 978-1-909208-86-5 YA/CHILDREN/NOVEL

(illustrated) £9.99 also available as an Audiobook

Zed and her family move unwillingly from London to Cornwall, in an attempt to support her mother’s mentalhealth.Graduallythefamilyfallapart,andit is only when Zed realises that the local cormorants are playing a part in the disasters that consume them, in revenge for an ancient wrong, that she and her sister, Amy, start working together to nd a solution and call a truce.

Winner YA Category Holyer An Gof Award 2022

Devilskein & Dearlove Alex Smith

ISBN: 978-1-909208-15-5 YA FANTASY £10.99

Young Erin Dearlove has lost everything, and is living in a run-down apartment block in Cape Town. en she has tea with Mr Devilskein, the demon who lives on the top oor, and opens a door into another world.

Nominated for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal.

e Old Woman from Friuli

Ghillian Potts, illustrated by Ed Boxall

ISBN: 978-1-909208-40-7 £6.99

CHILDREN’S FICTION,

illustrated

Everything the Duke can see belongs to him. Everything, except one small, strong house. at belong to the old woman from Friuli. e Duke wants that house, but the old woman, she won’t sell.

Children’s books

Brat: e Naming of Brook Storyteller Book One

Ghillian Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-41-4 YA FANTASY £9.99

On her 12th birthday Brat’s father disappears. She waits,buthenevercomesback.Brat ndthatnothing is simple, nowhere is safe, and being reunited with her family must wait, as more pressing tasks fall into her path.

Spellbinder: e Naming of Brook Storyteller BookTwo

Ghillian Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-46-9 YA FANTASY£9.99

Brook, now called Spellbinder, is working as Remembrancer to the Young Overlord, when Storytellers start disappearing. Spellbinder is forced to summon the Elder Dragons, but when she cannot control them, she must break her Storyteller vow and forfeit her most precious possession – her name.

Wolftalker e Naming of Brook Storyteller Book ree

Ghillian Potts

ISBN: 978-1-909208-49-0 YA FANTASY £9.99

e third and nal book in the Brook Storyteller Series. Brook is sent by the Storytellers to right a wrong, and in the process takes on an apprentice, Cricket. Far more important to her is her ‘cousin’

Drinks-the-wind, a Wildron wolf.Together the three of them discover a plot that puts all their friends, and even the Overlord, in danger.