Blog-April 2024

Botanical Short Stories: A Collection of Contemporary Writing about Plants and Flowers is published and available from all good bookshops and online retailers. We’ve been lucky enough to receive some lovely endorsements, including this one from Leif Bersweden, botanist and author of Where the Wildflowers Grow “A lovely collection of short stories with plants front…

Blog – February News

The first months of 2024 are flying by and there is much exciting news to share. The advance reader copies of Botanical Short Stories have arrived, and I’m thrilled that the book is being published by T J Books in Cornwall where our botanical illustrator Sarah Jane Humphrey and I live. Pre-orders are available from…

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November and December 2023 Novellas in November 2023 – A number of book bloggers focus on the novella form during the eleventh month of the year. The thought of reading short but satisfying books when the year is winding to a close seems a good one to me, as there is a tendency to be…

Blog-October News

Botanical Short Stories is available to pre-order from Waterstones, Blackwell’s and Amazon, with supporters of independent bookshops such as Hive and Bookshop to follow. Our book cover features a beautiful botanical illustration by Sarah Jane Humphrey. The anthology include stories by Maria Donovan, Priyanka Sacheti, Elizabeth Gibson, M Bowers, Kate Swindlehurst, Hildegard Dumper, Aulic Anamika,…

Botanical Short Stories Contributors

I’m very pleased to announce the contributors to the Botanical Short Stories anthology today. They are Aulic Anamika, Mark Bowers, Maria Donovan, Hildegard Dumper, Rebecca Ferrier, Elizabeth Gibson, Thalia Henry, Tamar Hodes, Diana Powell, Clare Reddaway, Priyanka Sacheti, Angela Sherlock, and Kate Swindlehurst. A story of mine will also be included. It’s a busy time…

Clear Water

2022 For the last few days, I’ve had some quiet time to reflect on 2022, a year which saw the much delayed publication of my second short story collection, Three Roads, on 4 April. Reviews, posts, and interviews followed from the lovely people at Writers on Research, Love Books, Read Books, and The Short Story,…

Botanical Short Stories, Scratch Classics, and Crow and Cross Keys

It has been wonderful to see the first submissions arrive for Botanical Short Stories, an anthology of short stories about plants and flowers due to be published by The History Press in 2024. As well as stories about growing and gardening, I’m looking for pieces about the botanical world – about artists, plant hunters, rare…

Botanical Short Stories: call for submissions

I am looking for short stories by new, emerging and established writers which are approximately 3,000-5,000 words long. Please see the submission guidelines on the Botanical Short Stories website for further details.