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The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology, Parthian Books, 2024
DESCRIPTION
This year's Rhys Davies Short Story Anthology includes Kapu Lewis' story Scapegoat, one of twelve bold, tender, brilliant stories from the winners of the 2024 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition. Adults, children - and even an elephant - are challenged by ghosts of the past and a longing for friendship, meaning and connection as they try to make sense of their worlds.
A group of lads unite on a bridge in the most horrific of circumstances; a family day out to celebrate the mid-harvest festival of Mabon does not go to plan; a research scientist grapples with the ethics of memory harvesting; one man tries to rebuild friendship through fishing; and a dancer disillusioned by broken dreams resorts to desperate means on board a ship. Here, lives are in transition - between cultures and language, past and present, dreams and reality. Characters, scarred and vulnerable, wander, and wonder.
The stories within this collection, both traditional and experimental, present life in its myriad beautiful, heart wrenching, truthful forms.
PUBLISHER
Parthian Press
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
“The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition never fails to attract writers of the highest quality, and this year has proven no exception. Among the stories I was honoured to select for the shortlist are tales which vary from the deeply personal to the pseudo academic, which are told from the human perspective and the elephant, and which are structured both traditionally and experimentally. What made each of these often very different stories stand out was that the themes explored, however obliquely, rang out with an honesty and humanity which is the great writer’s truest gift. I’m excited for them to find their readership. Huge congratulations are due to the writers for the dedication and bravery they have brought to their craft.”
Judge Rebecca F. John
“The stories which feature on the 2024 Rhys Davies Competition shortlist present life in its myriad beautiful, heart wrenching, truthful forms. Here, lives are in transition – between cultures and language, past and present, dreams and reality. Characters, scarred and vulnerable, wander, and wonder. It is an honour to include the work of the twelve finalists in a special anthology dedicated to this Competition – many congratulations to them all.”
Dr Canning, editor of the anthology
Issue Three, Handwritten & Co (featuring the short-story ‘Perfume’)
DESCRIPTION
100 pages of the finest poetry, prose, and visual art of today — featuring emerging and established artists and writers from around the globe, including Kapu Lewis’s latest short story Perfume, about a man’s fated quest for luck, and a roundtable interview with Derrick Austin and Arthur Sze.
Issue Three of Handwritten & Co., a print literary arts magazine based in South Asia.
PUBLISHER
Handwritten & Co
WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING?
