Stroud Short Stories

TICKETS REMAIN ON SALE + The Authors and Stories for our 8 November event THE HEAT IS ON

TICKETS for THE HEAT IS ON, priced at £12, are still on sale from the Lansdown Hall website 

Ticket sales here. If booking on your phone, do swipe left or right to see all available seats! The Lansdown booking system can be misleading!

Please note that the Lansdown Hall adds an additional 75p booking charge.

The event, which is part of the Stroud Book Festival, takes place at Lansdown Hall in Stroud on Sunday 8 November at 7.30 (doors 7.00). There will be a bar serving drinks, tea and coffee before the event and during the interval.

A record breaking number of authors (93) submitted stories for our 31st event. My co-judge Joanna Campbell and I have now considered the 109 stories. These are the authors who will read their stories at our event -

Georgia Boon - Without Summer

Robin Booth - Nightjars

Philip Douch - Michael

David Crane Embers - Decategorised

Lizzie Golds - Untethered

David Goodland - From Reds to Heaven

Jason Jackson - Nine Hundred and Eighty-two Degrees

Sophie Loose - Exchange

Mark Rutterford - Wearing Underwear for the First Time This Week

Steph Smith - The Ecdysiast

Huge congratulations to these authors. The competition was intense. It's going to be a great evening of short stories.

Very many thanks to Joanna Campbell for her brilliant judging. 

The brand new SSS anthology Stroud Short Stories Volume Four 2022-2025 will also be available to buy at the event. Priced at £12 for 312 pages/60 stories by 40 Gloucestershire authors. See our anthologies page.

The event is dedicated to the SSS mainstay Simon Piney (1949-2026)

John