This week's short story
Neap Tide
All day long he was full of talk: how big the ferry was and how fast it went. Not like the rusty boats in Greece. Lisa thought the khaki sea looked wrong. So impossibly solid and soupy. When she fell for Panos she had also fallen for his country: the siestas, the sunshine, and the… Read more
Latest news
Volume 7 is imminent!
- January 11, 2012
Riptide volume 7 is now with the printers and it will be available soon. This anthology, produced in collaboration with Wordquest Devon, contains an eclectic mix of stories and memoir. It is rooted in Devon – the brief was to submit a Devon-themed story – and is expressive of the uniqueness of the county, its towns and… Read more
Rook
- November 30, 2011
Jane Rusbridge, whose story “Ship of Dreams” appears in Riptide Vol 5, has recently announced that her second novel, ‘Rook’, will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2012. Like “Ship of Dreams” and her first novel, ‘The Devil’s Music’ (long-listed for the International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2011), Rook is set on the West Sussex… Read more
Sips that make a poison woman
- November 22, 2011
Anita Sivakumaran whose stories appeared in Volumes 4 and 6 of Riptide, has recently published a book of poetry: ‘Sips That Make a Poison Woman’. Her poem The Dog won the 2010 Ravenglass Poetry Press Competition and the prize was publication of the poetry collection. Graham Mort described it as ‘an ironic simplicity of diction,… Read more
Special issue
- Riptide Volume 6
This issue is a special one, featuring the ten winning stories from our short story competition for young adult fiction and with an introduction from our competition judge, Philip Hensher. The competition was run as part of the exetreme imagination festival of literature for children and young people, which also helped fund this volume. Sheena… Read more
Current issue
- Riptide Volume 5
Volume 5, guest-edited by Jane Feaver contains 16 new stories, each in some way concerned with flight: Flight in the sense of aeroplanes, flight in the sense of escape, flight in the sense of fancy: journeys, evasion, invention. Robert Shearman’s ‘Coming in to Land’ kicks off the collection with a surreal take on faith and… Read more
