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Black Waves in Cardiff Bay £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere

An exciting anthology of prose and poetry from Cardiff MA students – voices to note.

Black Waves in Cardiff Bay is a celebration of new and emerging voices from one of the most prestigious MA courses in creative writing. In pieces ranging from Carvereasque prose to crafted historical fiction; from innovative poetry to erudite analysis of the writing process the voices here sparkle and delight. Carefully edited by John Freeman the anthology is a testimony to what good tuition and careful practice can achieve. These are emerging writers to listen for.

New work by:

• Paul Belanger
• Ruth Calway
• Gavin Goodwin
• Robert D Leis
• Alaleh Mohajerani
• Claire Morton
• William Muir
• Rahul Sethi
• Cathy Smith
• John Whittles
• Nia Wyn

John Freeman has taught English Literature at Cardiff University since 1972, and Creative Writing since its inauguration as an option in the BA course there in 1983.

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The short story is a vital and vibrant form. To make more of it the Rhys Davies Trust, established to promote the name and works of the great Rhondda novelist and short story writer, funds a regular short story competition. Eagle in the Maze represents the best of those stories.

“You can put a whole world in a short story or next to nothing at all: anything’s permitted. In all eleven winning stories, what matters is that subject and form and language combine to make the sparks fly, to make something happen, something new.”

Meic Stephens & Tessa Hadley

Publication date: August 2010

Glimmer introduces readers to a wonderful selection of emerging and more established voices in prose and poetry. Tonya Mitchell’s award winning title piece is a compelling story of guilt, beautifully evoked and standing alongside fantastic fiction from Guatemalan writer Cassandra Passarelli and poetry from superb new voices, including Lyn White, Sharon Black, David Underdown, Frances Anne King, Bill Trüb and Padraig O’Moran. Glimmer is the perfect book to dip into or read cover to cover.

Rowan Fortune-Wood is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. His writing engages with several forms including poetry, fiction, reviews and essays. He runs a YouTube channel with a large subscriber base that features his work in philosophy, aesthetics and literature, including a series of mixed media microfictions. He is currently completing an MA in novel writing and working on a first novel and collection of short stories and microfiction.

A dazzling anthology of narrative poems, each a jewel, strung together with skill.

In the Telling celebrates the art of storytelling—whether the making of myth or the stories we tell ourselves to bring narrative and shape to the lives we leave. These fine narrative pieces in lyric form showcase the poetic talents of some of the most interesting emerging poets from Wales, the UK and the world. Woven together by skilled editors, both experienced poets, this array of stories become a poetic journey of meaning found in the telling.

Gail Ashton (editor) is a poet, freelance writer and creative writing tutor. Her collection Ghost Songs is published by Cinnamon Press (2007) and she co-edited the anthology Only Connect (Cinnamon Press, 2007). She is working on a second collection, the art of bridging.

Susan Richardson (editor) is a writer and tutor of writing based in Wales. Her collection of poetry, Creatures of the Intertidal Zone, inspired by her journey through Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland in the footsteps of an intrepid tenth/eleventh-century female Viking, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007. Her latest project is a visual collaboration of poetry and images. For further information, please visit:

www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk

Life lived on shifting ground, in the extraordinary moments when something cracks and something new happens is the underlying thread that unites the stories and poems in The Ground Beneath Her Feet. From Alice Keys award winning title story in which the cracks in the wall become the metaphor for both breaking and healing to beautifully crafted poems of Sue Wood, in which a comb burning foreshadows death with surprising grace and white becomes a metamorphosis; from Harrison Solow’s hypnotic, fable-like prose to Clare Jay’s precise, assured poetry the writing in this anthology engages and surprises, discomforts and delights.

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This anthology of the best stories and poems from the Cinnamon Press Writing Awards showcases a range of talented voices, from the new to the more established. From Shelagh Weeks’ winning story to the visually precise poetry of Rhys Trimble, from Claire Jay’s surreal world to Jan Villarrubia’s lyrical evocations of picking up the threads of life after the devastation of hurricane Katrina, the anthology provides a feast of words crafted to allow the reader to engage with life more fully.

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The Sandhopper Lover & other stories & poems is a testimony to the breadth and quality of the new writing submitted to the seventh Cinnamon Press writing awards. Ranging from the perils of adoption in Guatemala to finely honed observations of how fragile sanity can be; from how quickly life can unravel when relationships fail to Kafka’s recipe for boiled cabbages, these talented writers weave fiction and life into a fascinating tapestry of stories and poems.

sale Seeking Refuge Anthology £7.00 for one or 10 for £6.00 each UK delivery

for non UK delivery £8.00 each or £7.00 for ten

Pre Order: Publication date: 9th April 2010

‘Seeking Refuge is sold in aid of two vital cold weather shelters. Each year poets, both well-known and those beginning to write, contribute to the shelters through a series of readings in London organised by Ruth O’Callaghan – by buying tickets to events and reading their work, the best of which is selected for the annual anthology, poets make a real difference. In the last two years we have seen bitter winters and the shelters would be under threat without the contribution of the poets. All the profits go straight to the shelters. This is an eclectic and lively anthology featuring work by Fiona Sampson, UA Fanthorpe, RV Bailey, Alan Brownjohn, Marilyn Hacken, Ruth Fainlight, Alison Brackenbury and John Luca alongside new poets honing their craft.

The book normally costs £8.99, but if you order by Friday 9th April it is available at the special pre-order price of £7.00 (UK delivery) or order ten for only £6.00 each and help us to show that poetry can make a difference.’

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The finalists in the fourth Cinnamon Press poetry collection award offer shifting perspectives on life lived with all the senses open. These are poets who take seriously what it means to be alive and who take the time to communicate with lucid precision; finding patterns and shapes in what might otherwise be a chaotic jumble of sensory impressions and transitory experiences.

In these pages crows become punctuation, a woman faints at the sight of Matisse’s poppies, we learn the Urdu for fish, walk hospital corridors, search for an obituary, travel with survivors of a shipwreck who are kept alive by a breast-feeding mother and watch marriage bones being picked clean. Out of these riches of daily shapes, life is sifted clear.

Anthology of award winning short stories and poetry

Storm at Galesburg brings together the best stories and poetry submitted for the Cinnamon Press Writing Award.

The title story by the widely published reviewer and short story writer, Jeremy Worman, is a slow build, full of atmosphere and impeccably controlled. With other stories by award winning Welsh author, Huw Lawrence; the young Irish writer attracting attention for his forensic attention to detail and ability to describe the strange, Miceál Kearney; European writer, Brigita Pavsic’s haunting, honed style and a poignant, disturbing tale from Guatemalan based author, Cassandra Passarelli, the prose in this anthology is sure to delight and engage readers.

The poetry represents some of the best new voices to listen for, with excellent writing from Sally Lewis, Will Kemp, Ben Parker, David Underwood and Aisling Tempany. Lyrical writing which explores the boundaries of language, love and identity.

Storm at Galesburg i s an anthology to savour.

Publication date: April 2010

UK launch supported by British Council and Arts Wales

important anthology of four vibrant young women poets from Zimbabwe edited by internationally acclaimed and multi-award winning poet, Menna Elfyn.

Ethel Irene Kabwato has won many prizes for her prose and poetry. She is a founding member of the Zimbabwe Women Writers Project and has read her work at Rhodes University and University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. She works in a project called Slum Cinema, a voluntary initiative which seeks to empower disadvantaged communities through multi-media work.

Fungai Rufaro Machirori she was recognised with the Africa-wide award in excellence in strategic communication on HIV and AIDS in 2007. She has won national short-story and script writing competitions; is journalist, researcher and blogger and works in international development with specific focus on gender issues.

Joice Shereni is a single mother of two children. Her and writing empowers her to shed light on her understanding of the world.

Blessing Musariri is an award-winning children’s author and widely published. She has been featured in various international anthologies and was recently awarded a special prize in the Susie Smith Memorial Prize Competition, Oxfam.

April 2010

The Visitors showcases an array of talented new and established voices in short fiction and poetry. Tricia Durdey’s haunting, evocative and strange title story gets to the core of what it means to be at home; Muhamed Fajkovic’s ‘Vivisection’ dissects the layers we hid behind and how they peel away in crisis with a wry humour and flair for twists; Cassandra Passarelli’s ‘Cadejo’ blends Guatemalan folklore and magical realism with a coming of age story while Fiona Thackeray’s ‘Northern Species’ explores issues of poverty and ecology in Brazil and Huw Lawrence puts a surreal and sensual twist on the breakdown of a relationship in ‘Someone Dancing’. With more excellent stories and great poetry from rising voices, including Anne Caldwell and Sally Douglas, joint winners of the Cinnamon Press Collection Award, The Visitors is a great book to dip into or read cover to cover.

Rowan Fortune-Wood is assistant editor at Cinnamon Press. His writing engages with several forms including poetry, fiction, reviews and essays. He runs a YouTube channel with a large subscriber base that features his work in philosophy, aesthetics and literature, including a series of mixed media microfictions. He is currently completing an MA in novel writing and working on a first novel and collection of short stories and microfiction.

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