Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories About Time

About Alison MooreAndrew GeppAnita SethiCindy GeorgeDavid MathewsDizz TateImogen RobertsonTannith Perry

Alison Moore was one of our Judges for the Solstice Shorts Short Story Competition and her story for the Anthology is A Month of Sundays. Alison is a novelist and short story writer. Her first novel The Lighthouse won the McKitterick Prize 2013 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 and the National Book Awards 2012 (New Writer of the Year). Her second novel He Wants will be published on 15 August. Her debut collection The Pre-War House and Other Stories includes a prize-winning novella and stories published in Best British Short Stories anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra. Anita Sethi was one of our judges for the Solstice Shorts Short Story Competition and her story for the Anthology is The Largest Sundial in the World. Anita is an award-winning writer journalist and broadcaster who has written dispatches from around the world for the Guardian Observer Sunday Times Daily Telegraph Sunday Telegraph Independent Independent on Sunday New Statesman Granta Times Literary Supplement Harpers Bazaar and BBC among others. She has appeared as a guest panellist and commentator on BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 5 Live BBC World Service and ABC Australia. Her short stories reportage and poetry has been published in From There to Here Roads Ahead and The Book Club Bible and she is currently completing a novel. She is recipient of a Penguin/decibel prize Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship Arts Council writing award and Dialogue Festival blogging award. She has appeared at many international Literature Festivals and has been both an International Writer-in-Residence and Ambassador at the Emerging Writers Festival in Melbourne Australia. Cherry Potts is the Director of Arachne Press for whom she is editor of almost all our anthologies and runs the Annual Solstice Shorts Festival. Cherry is the author of an epic fantasy novel two collections of short stories a photographic diary of a community opera and has had many stories in anthologies magazines and online. Her novel of sibling hatred in the 1920s The Bog Mermaid won the Quill LGBTQ+ Prose prize 2022. Imogen Robertson grew up in Darlington studied Russian and German at Cambridge and now lives in London. She directed for film TV and radio before becoming a full-time author and won the Telegraphs First thousand words of a novel competition in 2007 with the opening of Instruments of Darkness her first novel. Her other novels also featuring the Georgian detective duo of Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther are Anatomy of Murder Island of Bones Circle of Shadows and Theft of Life. In 2013 she published The Paris Winter a story of betrayal and darkness set during the Belle Époque. She has been short-listed for the CWA Historical Dagger three times and once for the Dagger in the Library Award. Imogen was one of our judges for the Solstice Shorts competition and provided us with Time travel/ ghost story Grange Lodge Which she read for us at the festival and is published in Solstice Shorts Sixteen Stories about Time. Robert is one of our judges for the Solstice Shorts Short Story Competition and his story in the anthology is Simultaneous. Rob has written five short story collections (Tiny Deaths Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical Everyones Just So So Special Remember Why You Fear Me They Do The Same Things Different There) and between them they have won the World Fantasy Award the Shirley Jackson Award the Edge Hill Readers Prize and three British Fantasy Awards.His background is in the theatre resident dramatist at the Northcott Theatre in Exeter and regular writer for Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough; his plays have won the Sunday Times Playwriting Award the Sophie Winter Memorial Trust Award the World Drama Trust Award and the Guinness Award in association with the Royal National Theatre. He regularly writes plays and short stories for BBC Radio and he has won two Sony Awards for his interactive radio series The Chain Gang. But hes probably best known for reintroducing the Daleks to the BAFTA winning first season of the revived Doctor Who in an episode that was a finalist for the Hugo Award. David Mathews is one of the winners of the Solstice Shorts Festival Short Story Competition. His story in Solstice Shorts: Sixteen Stories about Time is Wednesday Afternoon. For 35 years David was a work psychologist. That gave him a license to mind other peoples business. He comes from Wales and lives in Bath and SW France. Recently his collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Impress Prize Brittle Star magazine published his story Florence who made mustard and Audio Arcadia are currently recording Removed about a man who looks for stones. Pippa Gladhills work has been supported by Arts Council bursaries her stories have won awards been broadcast on Radio 4 Radio 3 and been read at spoken word events in Bristol and Bath. She have recently begun writing plays which have received script in hand performances at the Ustinov Studio ( Theatre Royal Bath) Rondo Theatre (Bath) and Marlowe Studio (Canterbury). Pippas story for Solstice Shorts is Winters Evening in Bécéscsaba Helen Morris was one of five winners of the Solstice Shorts competition 2015. She lives and works in Essex. She tries to fit in writing stories between doing the washing for three sons swimming too much eating delicious food and drinking good beer. Helen has stories in Arachne anthologies Solstice Shorts Sixteen Stories about Time No SPider Harmed in the Making of This Book and Liberty Tales Helen is one of five authors of Five by Five