New Writing South, Creative Future and Myriad Editions are pleased to announce the selections for Spotlight Books.
These six writers will receive three months’ 1:1 mentoring, be published (with our print partners Jellyfish Solutions) as individual short books by Myriad Editions with international distribution, be invited to read at a launch event in early 2020, and receive long-term professional support. We’re very excited to share these new voices.
Poetry
Jacqueline Peta Haskell – ‘Titbits from the Afterlife’
Elizabeth Ridout – ‘Summon and Other Poems’
Sarah Windebank – ‘Memories of a Swedish Grandmother’
Prose
Georgina Aboud – ‘Small Histories’
Tara Gould – ‘The Haunting of Strawberry Water’
Ana Tewson-Bozic – ‘The Madman Chronicles’
We received almost 250 entries and would like to thank all those who gave us the opportunity to read their work. It was truly difficult to select only six writers from such a pool of talent, and we’d like to also congratulate those six who reached the shortlist:
Shortlisted
Poetry
Peter Archer – ‘The Girl in the Photograph’
Nicola Lane – ‘CV: 1968~2017’
Norman Miller – ‘Shadowlands’
Prose
Alexi Francis – ‘Dusk Night Dawn’
Anita Goveas – ‘Families & other natural disasters’
Daniel Morrison – ‘Skeletons & Stories’
