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Our short story of the week is an angelic story by Stefan Grieve. Stefan developed a love of writing from a young age. His passion drew him to experiment with a variety of writing styles in all different types of media. As an avid member of his writing groups, Stefan can be found in meetings for the Blackhorse poets; in which he sit

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Our short story of the week is a heroic story by Biycekizi. Biycekizi is a short story writer based in America and the author of Ghazi. In Ghazi, Biycekizi creates a tale of survival in a war-torn land and shows us how the actions of the past have shaped the present. 'The "bandit group" that General Kozlov was referring to was th

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Ric Cheyney was born in Cambridge, England. For ten years he was a semi-pro singer/songwriter in the Cambridge area, supplemented by various jobs including bus driver and college gyp. Ric completed a BA (Hons) Literature degree at the University of Essex in 1983, and a PGCE diploma at the university of Manchester in 1984. After that he ta

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Our short story of the week is a story about disability by Jen Knox. Jen Knox was born and raised in the Midwestern states and has worked primarily in the non-profit sector and academia. Her writing has a strong focus on tumultuous family relationships and our relationship with the natural world. Her short stories can be found in ov

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Our short story of the week is a story about bullying by Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012) have gained acclaim, both shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award. He has ventured outside of fiction novels with his poetry collecti

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Our short story of the week is a slavery story by Tahmina Hussain. Tahmina graduated from Newman University with a BA in English in 2015. She then went on to do her Masters in English Language Teaching in TESOL at Nottingham Trent University. During this time she was given the chance to go to Vietnam and teach English skills to Vietnam

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Our story of the week is a musical story from the writer Emma Lee. Emma has written since she was a little girl. Her first publication was in the school magazine at the age of five. Since then she’s had poems and short stories published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA, Mexico and South Africa and three poetry collections:

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Emma Timpany is the author of Fairlight Books' novella Travelling in the Dark.  Emma was born in Dunedin, New Zealand but moved to the UK in the 1990s, after receiving a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Otago. Emma has already published two short story collections - Over the Dam (Red Squirrel Press 2015) and The L

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