Stroud Short Stories in May

Stroud Short Stories returns on Sunday May 27th with a glittering line-up of short stories for a special Site Festival event. On offer will be roaring lions and raspberry sponge cake, raining cats, busking blackbirds, family feuds and plenty of oxygen.

As usual, all stories have been selected from submissions, are read by their authors and are under ten minutes long.

The headliner for the event is Tania Hershman (“a writer dripping with talent, this is as good as modern reading gets” New Scientist), author of two collections of short stories, The White Road and My Mother was an Upright Piano.

The event will take place at Stroud Valleys Artspace, starting at 8pm. Entry is £4 on the door.

A Taste of What's To Come

The headliner for our May event is the rather wonderful Tania Hershman (“an author dripping with talent, this is as good as modern reading gets” New Scientist), author of the collections The White Road and My Mother Was An Upright Piano.  Here she is reading three short stories on Radio 4:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01fjz35/Made_in_Bristol_Reality_Check/ 

Tania is also a tireless advocate of the short story form and edits the excellent and extremely useful website The Short Review -- highly recommended for anyone with an interest in short stories.

And remember – there’s less than two weeks to send your short stories in before the 29^th April deadline! (All submission details are here.)  So send them in to be a part of what promises to be a fantastic night!

Stroud Short Stories in May: Submissions Call

Now that the furious beating of our hearts has subsided after our Valentine's event, we are now open for submissions for our next short story night, on Sunday 27th May.  This will be be part of the Site Festival, which will again feature a wide range of Spoken Word events.

Stories can be between 50 and 1500 words and those selected will be read aloud by their authors on the night.  All subjects and genres are welcome, with a maximum of three entries per author.

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, 29th April.

Please email your stories to: stroudshortstories@yahoo.co.uk

We look forward to hearing from you!

“Love and Other Blows of Fate”

Our Love-themed Valentine’s event “Love and Other Blows of Fate” took place on Sunday 12^th February, with another large and appreciative audience.  As promised, our ten authors read stories that ran the gamut of emotions, from missed chances and lost love, to consummated passion and one man’s quest for invisibility!  

 Laura Kinnear reading "The Proposal"

 

Teresa Moorey reading "Growing Things"

 Mary Omnes reading "Chaos"

 

 Rick Vick reading "The Artist and the Lover"

 

 Andrew Stevenson reading "The Invisible Dream"

 

 Kevlin Henney reading "Schroedinger's Pizza"

Rachel Beckett reading three short tales from Aurora's Spindle

 Tim Smith reading "Carrie"

Judy Newman reading "Brief Encounter 1961"

Jane Bailey reading "Eats, Cheats and Leaves"

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Many thanks to all our readers, and to everyone who came along to listen.

Our next event will be at the end of May as part of the Site Festival.  We look forward to seeing you there!

October event now online

Terry Mechan’s recording of our October Event, for his Stroud FM show “Voices Across the Valleys” is now available online here.  It features Helen Street, Brian Seabrook, Eley Furrell, Helena Petre, Juliet Chastney and Roshi Fernando reading their stories.

Many thanks, Terry!

"Love and Other Blows of Fate"

Stroud Short Stories is ready with a red rose between its teeth for the 12th of February and our first themed event "Love and Other Blows of Fate".  We have ten selected authors eager to share their tales of love and loss, passion and woe. With celebrity gardeners, steam-trains and pineapple chunks included.  Our headliner is Jane Bailey, author of Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven.

The event starts at 8pm and takes place at Stroud Valleys Artspace.

Stroud Short Stories in February: Submissions Call

Stroud Short Stories will be back on Sunday 12th February, with its first themed event. As befits the approach of Valentine’s Day, the theme will be:

“Love and Other Blows of Fate.”

If you have a story (however loosely) connected to this theme that you would like to have considered for the night, please email it to stroudshortstories@yahoo.co.uk

Stories can be between 50 and 1500 words in length, and will be read by the author at the event.

The deadline for submissions is now Sunday 22nd January 2012  (extended by a week to account for that sluggish Christmas period!)

We look forward to hearing your tales of bliss and woe!


 Un-themed Stories

Due to the Site Festival moving forward from June to May next year, our next event after February will also be in May. If you have any stories that are not based on the theme of “Love and Other Blows of Fate” that you would like to have considered for the May event, please feel free to send them in too. (The deadline for these submissions is Sunday April 8th 2012.)