News
Riptide Volume 7 now available
- January 29, 2012
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
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
Riptide writer’s first novel
- October 26, 2011
Vanessa Gebbie’s debut novel The Coward’sTale will be published by Bloomsbury on November 7th. The launch event is going to be at the glorious Daunts bookshop in Marylebone High Street and information about that is available on Vanessa’s own blog. When we published her story ‘Irrigation’ in the first ever volume of Riptide back in 2007,… Read more
Approaching Deadline
- July 20, 2011
The deadline for submissions for the Devon-themed collection is fast appraoching. Send your stories or memoirs to us by July 31st. Details are on our ‘Contribute’ page.
