Bøker av Various Authors

A book containing the stories and poems that have been selected for prizes or special mention in the 2022 short story and poetry competitions organised by The Bedford Competition. For each category of prize the relevant judge has included a commentary. Each of the authors featured has provided a short biography.

From the winners of the JKP Writing Prize, this anthology of stories speaks to the humanity and bravery found in resistance against racism and the various ways it can manifest. Spanning generations, cultures, and communities, these prize-winning personal essays explore what it means to reclaim identity through personal, heartfelt resistance.

Inside is a treasure trove of writing celebrating the natural world. Read the poems aloud or curl up with them in a quiet corner. Begin your journey into a lifelong love of poetry.

New Crimeucopians Aran Myracle, Alexei J. Slater, Gerald Elias, Terry Wijesuriya, Issy Jinarmo, Larry Lefkowitz, and Vinnie Hansen smoothly rub literary shoulders with a fine collection of familiar Crimeucopia old hands: Bob Ritchie, Michele Bazan Reed, Nikki Knight, N. M. Cedeño, Wendy Harrison, Andrew Darlington, Madeleine McDonald, Joan Leotta, H. E. Vogl and Jesse Aaron.All 17 tell tales that will make you realise there's always going to be One More Thing To Worry About....And, for those who might be interested, the 'origin' of this anthology's title comes from an old cassette tape recorded off the coast of Florida, back in 1986. The newsreader closed with:"And one more thing to worry about - Bubonic Plague. It appears that a West Texas hunter contracted the disease from an infected rabbit he shot and ate..." Back then everything was so much simpler...As with all of these anthologies, we hope you'll find something that you immediately like, as well as something that takes you out of your comfort zone - and puts you into a completely new one. In other words, in the spirit of the Murderous Ink Press motto: You never know what you like until you read it.

Fourteen stories that explore love, identity, politics, fantasy and a fresh take on an age-old fairy tale, transporting readers into the heart of contemporary writing from Assam.

The Spirit of Words is the 2023 annual anthology with the participation of many international authors from various levels. It aims to be a democratic space where a wide diversity of authors publish their voices both in prose and poetry across all continents. The collection has been going on since 2015 with 'The pain that unites us all,' 'The Brave and the afraid,' 'Food memories,' 'Letters from here to hereafter,' 'Whitmanthology.' The ebooks are always free and the printed versions are paid and distributed globally. We wish you enjoy the reading as much as we enjoyed producing it. A big THANK YOU to all our featured authors across the globe.

A grieving woman is drawn to a land-locked lighthouse where she meets a party of lost souls in need of a guide. She must face death in order to start a new life.The temporary caretaker of a lighthouse finds the perfect hideaway for safeguarding her secret, never expecting to encounter a murder and an unlikely partner in crime.While visiting a deep space navigational beacon to conduct routine maintenance, two space adventurers encounter a self-aware AI computer that has her own plans.Queensland, 1887. A lighthouse keeper's daughter is missing, presumed dead. Is she another victim of the Spectre or something even more terrifying?A voice from one woman's past echoes a secret up the lighthouse stairs. The only person who can give her the answers, is the last person she ever wants to see again.The estranged daughter of a lightkeeper returns home to South Solitary Island as WWII looms and finds her world upended by her father's dying request: marry his successor.Lighthouses: beautiful, mysterious, dangerous, remote - the perfect setting for this genre fiction anthology - a collection of fantasy, sci-fi, romance, crime, historical fiction, dystopian and paranormal short stories from established and emerging Australian authors.