Exposure /Holly Howitt & Jan Fortune (eds)
Published November 2010 – you can pre-order now.
Exposure is an exciting anthology of prose poetry and microfiction selected by Holly Howitt and Jan Fortune-Wood from over 1,000 writers in Wales the UK and across the globe. Ranging across love, loss, hate, journeys and other oddities these finely written pieces constantly surprise, delight and challenge. With a powerful title piece from Bill Trüb this is an innovative anthology full of difference.
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Holly Howitt grew up in north Wales, and later lived in Cardiff for many years. She is the author of Dinner Time, a collection of microfictions, and a novella, The Schoolboy. She also co-edited Exposure, a striking collection of prose poems and microfictions, with Jan Fortune-Wood. Holly is interested in writing in small forms, but is also currently completing a new novel. She is a university lecturer when not writing. For more information, see www.hollyhowitt.com/
Jan Fortune is the founding editor of Cinnamon Press and also teaches creative writing. Her books include novels, A Good Life, Dear Ceridwen and The Standing Ground and poetry, Particles of Life and Stale Bread and Miracles, a prose poetry collection which she recently performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. Her most recent novel is Coming Home. She is currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ Schrödinger and a novel that ranges across three generations and two continents exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, I’m Still Here.