At the end of a lovely summer, Botanical Short Stories has been growing new shoots 🌿🌿🌿

I look forward to sharing some lovely news about our anthology of #shortstories about #plants and #flowers soon 💙

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Upcoming event at Penzance Litfest - details below

Please come along for readings from the wonderful Cornwall In Short #shortstory #anthology & a discussion about what #Cornwall means to us @petermcallister.bsky.social
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Welcome to the world Short | Poto - The big book of small stories | Iti te kupu, nui te kōrero

100 short, short stories in English and te reo Māori, inc my story 'Remains | Ngā toenga'

Congratulations to eds Michelle Elvy and Kiri Piahana-Wong & all involved

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The first issue of Aspier, a new #literary and #arts magazine for #Cornwall, is full of wonderful #shortstories, #poetry, #essays and #features

Many congratulations to editor Sravya Raju & all the contributors

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More here: www.aspiermagazine.co.uk

Happy book birthday to my first publication, Over the Dam, a pamphlet of five short stories published 10 years ago today -

Over the Dam is no longer in print but four of its stories are included in Three Roads, my second short story collection from Postbox Press, an imprint of Red Squirrel Press

Happy book birthday to Botanical Short Stories

One year old today!

Huge thanks to our wonderful contributors and readers

How absolutely magical to receive this beautiful artwork of a golden oriole in a fig tree

It was inspired by my story 'A Bird So Rare' in Three Roads (Red Squirrel Press, 2022) which features the surprise appearance of this very bird

Huge thanks to wonderful friends for sending this gorgeous gift

Lovely to use #winter greenery from my #garden to make a seasonal #wreath with my daughters

Berried ivy, pittosporum, conifer, rosemary & Viburnum tinus with cinnamon sticks and pine #cones on a #natural #vine base

Happy #midwinter 🌿💚 #WinterSolstice2024

Almost year's end, so a big thank you to all involved in Botanical Short Stories-our wonderful #writers, #illustrator & #publisher

A beautifully illustrated #anthology of 14 #shortstories about #plants and #flowers for #readers who love the #botanical world

Happy midwinter

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Had the loveliest of times at the launch of the short #story #anthology #CornwallinShort in the wonderful Morrab Library, a heaven for book lovers set in beautiful gardens

Many thanks @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social editors Kate Horsley, @petermcallister.bsky.social & all involved

#fiction #Cornwall

This month, as days shorten and nights draw in, some readers take part in #NovNov24, a reading challenge which focuses on the #novella form

It's a form I love to read - my own novella #TravellingintheDark was published by #FairlightBooks in their #FairlightModerns series back in 2018

#writing

Beautiful artworks spotted at the #SouthbankCentre in #London recently

These digital hybrid #tulips by #MatCollishaw are created by combining genetic algorithms with technology

Part of Winter Light, an #exhibition illuminating dark nights with outdoor artworks which play with colour and light

So many people are involved in creating an anthology like #BotanicalShortStories. As well as 14 wonderful #writers, I was lucky enough to work with award-winning #illustrator Sarah Jane Humphrey

The cover design (left) was created from Sarah's beautiful, original #botanical #illustration (right) 🌿

Botanical Short Stories is available to pre-order

Publication 4 April 2024 The History Press Local

14 short stories about #plants and #flowers from a wide range of #writers and illustrated by Sarah Jane Humphrey

Available from all #bookshops and online

#fiction #creativewriting #gardening