Riptide is now accepting submissions on the theme of childhood for our next two volumes. For the first time we are looking for poetry as well as short stories.  Accepted work will be published in two separate anthologies whose launch will coincide with the Exetreme Imagination Children’s Literature Festival in Exeter in February 2013. Details… Read more

The launch event for Riptide 7 at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter on March 2nd was a great success.  Over 150 people attended, Ben Bradshaw gave a stirring talk about putting Devon on the literary map, the music was wonderful and very atmospheric to hear it there, wine glass in hand, amongst the artefacts.  Seven of… Read more

Riptide volume 7, produced in collaboration with Wordquest Devon, contains an eclectic mix of stories and memoir. These Devon-themed stories express the uniqueness of the county, its towns and its countryside, its wild parts and its settlements. Devon is the thread that binds the diverse stories into a whole, but the stories spill over the… Read more