Short Story Review: ‘Three Men on the Edge’ by Michael Loveday

Review by Jacci Gooding Publisher: V Press 92 pages RRP £9.99 ISBN 978-1999844417 Michael Loveday’s searing observation of loneliness and unspoken desi...

Short Story Review: ‘Thirteen Months of Sunrise’ by Rania Mamoun (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)

Review by Laura Windley Publisher: Comma Press 80 pages RRP: £9.99 ISBN: 978-1910974391 Dreamlike and richly evocative tales of human—and nonhuman— con...

Short Story Review: ‘Soul Etchings’ by Sandra Arnold

Review by Emma Timpany Publisher: Retreat West Books, 2019 182 pages RRP: £7.99 ISBN: 978 1 9164483 6 0 Soul Etchings is Sandra Arnold’s debut collecti...

Short story Review: ‘The Book Of Cairo: A City in Short Fiction’ Edited by Ralph Cormack

Review by James Holden Publisher: Comma Press 85 pages RRP: £9.99 ISBN: 978-1910974254 The latest in a series that encompasses cities as diverse as Lee...

Crafting Short Stories: A Good Opening Sentence, by Peter Jordan

Essay by Peter Jordan The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet so many writers get this wrong. Often, writers get so caught up in the need to pr...

Short Story Interview: Peter Jordan

Interview by Rupert Dastur Hi Peter, thanks for speaking to us at TSS about A Wild and Precious Life: A Recovery Anthology. What can you tell us about this boo...

Short Story Review: ‘The Map Of Bihar’ by Janet H Swinney

Review by by Erinna Mettler Publisher: Circaidy Gregory Press (15 Jun. 2019) 190 pages RRP £9.99 ISBN: 978-1910841518 ‘There’s so much more to a book t...

Short Story Review: ‘Calls To Distant Places’ by Peter Jordan

Review by Emily Devane Publisher: Kingston University Press (August 2019) 25 pages RRP £7.99 ISBN: 978-1909362376 Confession: I first came across Peter...