Join us HERE on Sunday 8 November SSS 2020 from 7.30pm for our 20th event - on the theme of 'Disruption' - it's FREE!
The need for everyone's safety means that the Stroud Short Stories event 'Disruption' (!) will take place online.
I hope you'll join us on the SSS YouTube channel via links here on our website from 7.30 on Sunday 8 November to enjoy ten Gloucestershire authors reading/performing their stories. (Please note that there is no access to the SSS event on the Stroud Book Festival YouTube channel.)
The event, which is our 20th and is dedicated to the late Rick Vick, will feature the ten stories initially selected from the 119 stories submitted for the postponed April event.
Just a reminder of the stories which will be read by their authors. (Click on the links for the authors' websites) -
A Brief History of Lady Charlotte, Duchess of Beaumont - Emma Kernahan (Stroud)
Correcting an Error - Mark Rutterford (Filton, South Gloucs)
The Corvidae Diary - Stephen Connolly (Siddington, Cirencester)
Waking the Dead - Simon Piney (Eastcombe, Stroud)
Jumping the Queue - Sharon Webster (Leckhampton, Cheltenham)
Peace Lily - Claire Harrison (Charlton Kings, Cheltenham)
Puffballs - Steve Wheeler (Sheepscombe)
Roadkill - Hannah Glickstein (Stroud)
Two Towns - Robin Booth (Brimscombe, Stroud)
White Christmas - Geoff Mead (Kingscote, Tetbury)
Correcting an Error - Mark Rutterford (Filton, South Gloucs)
The Corvidae Diary - Stephen Connolly (Siddington, Cirencester)
Waking the Dead - Simon Piney (Eastcombe, Stroud)
Jumping the Queue - Sharon Webster (Leckhampton, Cheltenham)
Peace Lily - Claire Harrison (Charlton Kings, Cheltenham)
Puffballs - Steve Wheeler (Sheepscombe)
Roadkill - Hannah Glickstein (Stroud)
Two Towns - Robin Booth (Brimscombe, Stroud)
White Christmas - Geoff Mead (Kingscote, Tetbury)
These are brilliant stories, so please join us here from 7.30 on Sunday 8 November on the SSS website when I will post links to the ten readings/performances on YouTube. Please note that there is no access to the SSS event on the Stroud Book Festival YouTube channel.
Our last 14 events sold out. You will not need a ticket for this one. And there will be no charge to watch/listen to the videos.
MAY 2021 Event - We will open again for submissions in late January for our Sunday 9 May 2021 event. There will be an open theme - so any subject, any genre, any approach so long as it's a short story of 1,500 words or less. COVID allowing, it will take place at the Cotswold Playhouse in Stroud or, failing that, online again.
John
