Collisions – Call for short stories For volume 14, Riptide invites short stories that take their inspiration from collisions minute and stellar. Narratives might animate clashes, crashes, conflicts, revisions, calculations, near misses, or shared interests and atmospheres. A collision could be an eventuality of error and errantry; it could be a beginning. Whatever your approach, … Continue reading Collisions: Call for short stories
6 Word Short Story Competition
Riptide are announcing their annual 6 word short story competition for December 2014 on the theme of ice! Please send your entries to editors@riptidejournal.co.uk, comment on our facebook post or tweet @riptidejournal. Looking forward to seeing all of your entries.
Ancient Sunlight
Riptide is currently working on a project with ‘Kaleider’ to produce an inspiring look at what people would do with the last barrel of oil on earth. This autumn, ‘Ancient Sunlight’ aims to run workshops in the community to produce poetry and short stories. The result will be a collection of books, written by … Continue reading Ancient Sunlight
Vol 8 (short stories) and vol 9 (poetry) launched and on sale!!
As part of exetreme imagination Riptide is delighted to have published 2 childhood-themed collections – one of short stories and, for the first time, one of poetry. Vol. 8 includes an introduction by Baroness Floella Benjamin OBE and vol. 9 by National Poetry Prize winner Julia Copus. More details about each book which contain writing … Continue reading Vol 8 (short stories) and vol 9 (poetry) launched and on sale!!
Medical Humanities and the Arts: Self-Portrait without Breasts – University of Exeter – November 27
Writers will be especially interested in The College of Humanities and the University’s Arts and Culture Team’s collaborative event which brings together a poet, a photographer, a medical practitioner, a writer and psychologist, a cultural historian and a literary critic to explore the issue of preventative medicine, cancer and our perceptions about the body. Host for … Continue reading Medical Humanities and the Arts: Self-Portrait without Breasts – University of Exeter – November 27