Sixty-five very short stories. The Book Of Small Changes takes its inspiration from the wisdom of the Chinese I Ching, replacing those ancient fortunes with new stories: where the sea mourns for those it has lost, where encyclopaedia salesmen weave their accidental magic, and where the only true gift for a king is the silence of snow.Tim Stevenson is the winner of the 2013 National Flash-Fiction Competition and his stories have previously appeared in the anthologies “Scraps” and “Jawbreakers”. This is the first collection of his work.
Since his emergence as an artist in Australia during the 1980s, Tim Maguire has worked in various ways to convey a refreshing philosophical scepticism. Earlier paintings and prints featured monuments dissolving into their own reflections, vast landscapes blurring into mirage, often a use of trompe l'oeil to undermine itself in works of art where illusionism met transparency, until finally there were the 'flower paintings', in the 1990s, when arguably Maguire hit his stride. These still-lifes provided an aesthetic means for the celebration of beauty and an acknowledgement of inevitable corruption and relativity. His later abstract paintings similarly, paradoxically, push and pull the viewer between what is imagined and what is real. Comprising digital prints and video of snow, water and flowers, this exhibition marks a significant development in Maguire's artistic practice; the ephemerality of his subject matter is very familiar, but the new medium adds new meanings. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Tim Maguire: Snow, Water and Flowers at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 30 January - 24 March 2008.
This, the 3rd annual anthology from National Flash-Fiction Day, sees a wide range of writers telling us their carefully crafted stories about the wonders of the world and beyond. Given the theme of 'The Senses' these writers have responded in unexpected ways to produce tales of love and betrayal, hope and despair, life and death. Writers include sci-fi and crime best-seller Michael Marshall Smith, crime novelist Sarah Hillary, Costa Short-Story Prize 2014 winner Angela Readman, NFFD Director Calum Kerr and a host of others including Nuala Ni Chonchuir, Nik Perring, Nigel McLoughlin, Cathy Bryant, Tim Stevenson, Tania Hershman and Jon Pinnock. This is a wonderful collection of stories, show-casing the vital state of flash-fiction today.
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