Short Fiction Launch

Part of Plymouth International Book Festival

Join Editors, Anthony Caleshu and Tom Vowler, for the launch of the seventh issue of 'the visual literary journal' Short FICTION. Showcasing the best new fiction from around the world alongside bespoke illustration, the journal has established itself as a unique and dedicated space for the marriage of text and image. Anthony and Tom will be reading from some of their favourite selections in the new issue, as well as discussing the 'editing'  that goes on behind the scenes.

Anthony Caleshu is Professor of Poetry at Plymouth University and the author of a novella and two books of poetry, most recently, Of Whales: in Print, in Paint, in Sea, in Stars, in Coin, in House, in Margins (a 'book of the year', in the Daily Telegraph, 2010). New work from his manuscript in progress, The Victor Poems, have won the Boston Review Poetry Prize (2010), and recently appeared in Narrative.

Tom Vowler, Associate Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University, is the author of the short story collection, The Method, which won the international Scott Prize in 2010 and the Edge Hill Readers’ Award in 2011. His first novel, What Lies Within, was published in the Spring 2013, by Headline.