Three Spotlight Books by NB Magazine
Spotlight Books is a collaboration between New Writing South, Creative Future and Myriad Editions. Under this collaborative title, 3 stand along short stories were published. Kirsty Hewitt reviews them now for NB magazine.
Hugely different in style but all three offering glimpses into the lives of characters trying desperately to make sense of their own, unique realities.
Read Kirsty’s 4/4 star review HERE.
Special Mentions in the 2020 Saboteur Awards
We’re so pleased to announce that several Myriad authors received special mentions for the 2020 Saboteur Awards, including Elaine Chiew for The Heartsick Disapora and our Spotlight Authors Ana Tewson-Bozic, Elizabeth Ridout, Georgina Aboud, Jacqueline Haskell, Tara Gould and Sarah Windebank for the Spotlight Books series. Tara received a second mention for her novella, The Haunting of Strawberry Water.
You can review the entire shortlist here.
Ana Tewson-Bozic discusses the value of words with New Writing South
What are the challenges of your own life experiences, and do these present in your writing, as concerns, themes, ways of thinking about writing?
I write to help put words to difficult emotions, to explain a situation, or a mood, I do this to give the reader company in their neuroses, they can look to mine and see my useless guilts and shames, and feel perhaps easier about their own confessions, whether shared or secret. Or I do it so that others may understand my neuroses, if it does not resonate as their own moods do, if it does not relate to their own experience, at least mine can be examined. I have a mood disorder and feel heightened a lot, I write when a mood or situation becomes so heightened it needs to become rid of, to be exorcised onto a page. To be in stone, etched, as a testament to that experience. It is grubby and shameful, the space between ears and sometimes it can be translated into writing to become tangible, and shared.
New Writing South speak to one of the Spotlight series authors, Ana Tewson-Bozic, whose short story Crumbs was written during a psychotic episode.
VIVA Brighton on the Spotlight series
‘The series is dazzling. Such small books, making such noise… These collections have been sending ripples through the local literary scene.’
VIVA Brighton showcased the Spotlight series in their March 2020 issue. Read the full review by columnist Anna Burtt.