Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, weβve chosen a story about biology by Guy Jones. Guy Jones was born in Manchester and brought up in Glossop in Derbyshire. He did an Ecology degree in Wolverhampton before
READ MOREWith restrictions on travel and socialising in place around the world, most of us arenβt able to do everything we would like to at the moment. Yet reading short fiction can be the perfect escape from a constricted life, transporting us to different places, giving us a taste of freedom and allowing
READ MOREOur short story of the week is a story about running away by George Sandison. George Sandison is a publisher, editor and writer living in London. He runs the award-winning independent press Unsung Stories, which specialises in literary and ambitious science fiction, fantasy and horror. He is also
READ MOREOur short story of the week is a story about cheating by Jane Copland. Jane Copland is from Wellington, New Zealand. After spending her early years almost entirely underwater, she broke a national record in the 200m breaststroke at eighteen and moved to Pullman, Washington to take up a swimming s
READ MOREAmi Rao is the author of Almost, a Fairlight Books novel publishing on 1 March 2022. Inspired by the essays of Roland Barthes, AlmostΒ is a deeply moving short novel exploring grief, one of the most complex of human emotions. Read this interview with Ami Rao to find out more. If you could describ
READ MOREIt can be quite difficult to understand copyright for authors and what you can and cannot do when writing a book. There are some issues that every writer needs to be aware of, both when it comes to your own work, and someone elseβs words you are planning on using in your text. Here are a few basic
READ MOREOur story of the week is a story about walking from the writer Niki Baker. Niki Baker lives in Oxfordshire and divides her time β sometimes with a reasonable degree of success β between pursuing her career as an author, editing her partnerβs work, running her own business, and backpacking a
READ MOREOur Story of the Week is an inspiration story from the writer Yvonne Dykes. Yvonne writes both short stories and longer fiction. In 2014, she self-published her first novel Brondesbury Villas on Amazon Kindle and began attending creative writing courses at City Lit. In 2015, her first short story
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