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Extraordinary short fiction from new and established writers

This is a collection of poetry by Rebecca McManus. Several of the poems have been inspired by her favourite poets including, amongst many others, John Wieners, Raymond Carver, Luke Kennard, Jack Underwood, Amy Lowell, Richard Adlington and Charles Simic. Rebecca was a talented writer and musician with her whole life ahead of her. Sadly this was cut short when she was killed by a speeding driver whilst waiting at a bus stop. She was just 21 and weeks away from graduating from the University of East Anglia with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. She has previously been published in Cadaverine Magazine, Ellipsis Magazine, MISO magazine and University of East Anglia anthologies. She was a commended Foyle Young Poet in 2010 and has performed in the West Midlands, Norwich and London, including at the Southbank Centre as part of the Poetry Parnassus in 2012. In her Twitter profile she described herself as an "Intellectual in waiting, wannabe poet and pun loving beret-ista". She was a kind, loving and generous girl who would do anything for anyone. She was such a gentle soul but had a real zest for life and living. Who knows what she could have achieved? The world could have been her oyster. She has been described as an exploring and adventurous poet and was thrilled to have had some of her poems published. She dreamt of eventually being able to publish a volume or several of poetry - a dream she sadly never got to see. It makes us extremely proud to be able to do this for her now. This is a collection of her work as it was when she died, therefore several of her poems remain untitled. No doubt she would have re-written others, ever the perfectionist. I hope wherever she is that she is happy with what we have published. Rebecca's poetry is meant to inspire, for you to look around and celebrate the spirit. "You, I, and the sky" - Rebecca's poems seemed like little adventures, and she loved life's little adventures. If a train journey could take longer so you could see the Olympic park under construction, then so be it - it meant you were cramming a little bit more living into the day to push out the hum drum and let more light in. We don't know how many photographs of Rebecca exist. We do know that she smiles in most of them. She was never weary of life - she planned so many things and reached out to experience what she believed in. Although she did not live to see them, she had tickets to see Kate Bush and John Baez in concert in the same week. How many people managed to get tickets for both concerts, I wonder? Rebecca would have known the value of going to those gigs. She would have celebrated the quality and sentiment behind the artists' lyrics in the same way that she had appeared to have collected every record ever produced by Ralph McTell - another artist whose simplistic compositions offered an invitation to reflect on the world around us. And that is what Rebecca did in a way that was filled with gentleness and kindness. Our beautiful girl was loved by so many and is missed by everyone who knew her - this is a collection of her poems for you to enjoy, we are so proud of her and all that she achieved in her short life. We will love and miss you always Bec x

Extraordinary Short Fiction from New and Established Writers: Fight or Flight, featuring stories by Daniel Carpenter, Elaine Chiew, Brian Coughlan, KM Elkes, Tracy Fells, Liam Hogan, Maxim Loskutoff, Mark Mayes, Jay Merill, Valerie O'Riordan, Gareth E Rees, Kathryn Simmonds, Hannah Stevens, Tom Vowler

Words And Women: Two is the second showcase collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England and the first appearance in print of four specially-commissioned texts for the page and performance, 'About.' The memoir, fiction, creative non-fiction and performance texts inside reflect the brilliance, boldness and depth of women's contemporary writing in the regions. Here is a marriage of vivid imagination and ambiguity, delicate and subtle prose coupled with strong images and deep emotions. A young woman ponders how she has mysteriously wronged a professor. A wife compelled to spy on her husband is caught out in her own intrigue. We follow a child of the tideline. And, in a fevered night, a mother lingers in a river while danger gathers on the bank. What do you say to Kurt Cobain's son? How does it feel to be an 'outside woman' at the tropical funeral of a lover and what does it mean to climb Mount Sanitas? This book also includes four specially commissioned texts which explore women's relationship to place. 'About', supported by Arts Council England, brings to life the voices of Jane Sellars, hung in Norwich for being 'idle at Trowse', a woman who walks the Bungay Straight on a pilgrimage of grief, 18 year old prostitute 'Anguish' locked up in a mental asylum for life and the wartime fight of a station mistress for the right to wear a company coat. This is a book for readers who love to explore. It contains winning entries from: Tricia Abraham, Melinda Appleby, Jenny Ayres, Sarah Baxter, Ceridwen Edwards Louise Ells, Abby Erwin, Lilie Ferrari, Melissa Fu, Hannah Garrard, Hannah Harper, Caitlin Ingham, Tess Little Jane Martin, Holly McDede, Anna Metcalfe, Marise Mitchell, Anthea Morrison, Patricia Mullin, Radhika Oberoi, Julianne Pachico, Bethany Settle, Thea Smiley, and Lora Stimson.

Words And Women One, edited by Lynne Bryan and Belona Greenwood, is the inaugural showcase collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England. The memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction inside reflects the brilliance and boldness of women's contemporary writing in the regions.

Some small towns have big secrets.

UNTHOLOGY NO.3 is the third in Unthank Books' series showcasing the finest short fiction from new and established writers. Like its predecessors, UNTHOLOGY No.3 lets the classic short story jostle for elbowroom with the formally unusual and the novelette. Its eighteen stories describe sticky predicaments, testing choices and reluctant confessions: a publisher surveys the changing literary scene as an age-old mob war he's losing; a man finds himself trapped by his own perfectionism in a forbidding meat-processing factory; a strange black monolith appears in a back garden somewhere in the north of England. Lit-up tales for dark times: David Rose, Sandra Jensen, Sarah Dobbs, Mischa Hiller, Gordon Collins, Ian Chung, Sharon Zink, Ashley Stokes, Angela Readman, CD Rose, AJ Ashworth, John Nicholson, Philip Langeskov, Debz Hobbs-Wyatt, Charlie Wilkinson, Sarah Evans, Tim Mitchell.

THE SYLLABUS OF ERRORS is a story sequence, a mixture of contemporary and historical episodes.

UNTHOLOGY No. 2 is the second of Unthank Books' annual collection of unpredictable, unconventional short fiction. Like its predecessor, UNTHOLOGY No. 2 showcases established writers on great form and introduces exciting new voices. Its thirteen stories depend upon choices voluntary or otherwise, incarcerations and manic episodes and moments of doubt and transcendence. A man on his stag night encounters a woman who threatens all his certainties. The most ridiculous Health and Safety rules ever infect a company HQ. The complete lexicon of the poets of Radial City is finally made available. These are resonant tales for anxious times. Contains writing by: Joshua Allen, Sarah Evans, Shanta Everington, Paul A. Green, Lander Hawes, Ian Madden, Melissa Mann, M. Pinchuk, Stephanie Reid, Ashley Stokes, Nick Sweeney, Tessa West and Charles Wilkinson.

UNTHOLOGY 4 is the latest in our series showcasing the finest short fiction from new and established writers.

Short fiction by twelve of Britain's most celebrated writers that interact, respond and play with the legacy of the Bronte Sisters.

Nolan Kennedy is a young American teaching English in Istanbul and hanging out with his alcoholic friend Don Darius. Don might also be the greatest living American novelist judging by the script Kennedy finds in Don's trash. But Don has left town and Kennedy had better find him and persuade him to get serious about the book before Don decides to get serious about the vodka. The catalyst Don thinks will help is finding the woman he met on the LAIKONIK EXPRESS. Kennedy and Don embark on a journey to find her in back-of-beyond Central Europe but en route find much more than a mysterious woman.

Containing 17 pieces by new and established authors, this hard-hitting, hilarious, and entertaining collection showcases unconventional, unpredictable, and experimental stories.

KIng of the Jungle by KS Silkwood is a novel that painfully and hilariously skewers the British art world of the last 20 years.

Nathan Flack, a writer exiled in a backwater teaching creative writing to a group of high-maintenance cranks and fantasists, becomes the target of a very literary ghost by the name of James O'Mailer, in this metafictional tour de force.

This year's anthology is an eclectic collection of high quality prose, a many-layered read of subtlety, passion, and depth. There are startling, compelling and moving texts: an insight into the dark and crippling relationships between husbands and wives, and the love between a father and daughter. Nocturnal visitors bivouac on the edge of vision, the lost follow a winter's map. There is a rapid intellectual joy ride with a Komodo dragon. There are memories of haunted trees, the struggle for recognition and change, of living with the threat of sectarian violence, and so much more. This book reflects the way we live, hope and love now. This is a book for the reader who wants to peel back the layers and wander through rich and complex worlds featuring winning entries from our annual new writing competition. This year's guest judge Naomi Wood, author of The Godless Boys, has selected a range of texts that show us what it is to be alive in a time of change. Jamilah Ahmed, Kate Harmond Allan, Deborah Arnander, Margaret Callaghan, Tricia Cresswell, Louise Dumayne, Kate Feld, Lilie Ferrari, Melissa Fu, Pia Ghosh-Roy, Guinevere Glasfurd, Sara Gowen, Anna Metcalfe, Clare Morgan, Helen Morris, Shiona Morton, Nasrin Parvaz, Marianne Picton, Ronne Randall, Kate Robinson, Cherise Saywell, Victoria Shropshire, Penny Simpson, Mary White

EXTRAORDINARY FICTION FROM NEW AND ESTABLISHED AUTHORS

THE END: FIFTEEN ENDINGS TO FIFTEEN PAINTINGS is a collection of short fiction inspired by the artwork of Nicolas Ruston.

Gull Stones and Cuckoos is a clear-eyed, passionate and honest book of life-writing about contemporary country living in Norfolk. Lost halls, early morning walks, stillness, fairy-light skies, telescopes on allotments, the loneliness of grief and the adventure of new places in rural Norfolk. The writers in this book are new to writing but their stories and observations are compellingly authentic. This book has grown out of an Arts Council England project Rural Writes, a partnership between Norfolk Library and Information Service and Words and Women.

Contemporary and accessible literary fiction by avant-garde author, musician and publisher Ken Edwards. Jobless, young Dennis Chaikowsky is house-sitting for his parents in the back end of nowhere, near a nuclear power station on the coast. His attempts at musical composition are stymied by his complicated relationship with his Neo-Marxist poet friend, city-dweller Tarquin, his sexual obsession with Alison, a.k.a Wanda, who works in the power station by day and is a singer by night, and his fear and awe of her rock musician husband Severin. It's an unsustainable comedy, but the world outside, natural and unnatural, described in Edwards' unnerving prose, doesn't care.