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

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.

We’ve donated a prize for the July 12th Wordquest Tombola at the Ways with Words festival taking place at Dartington in South Devon  on July 8th – 18th.  The Tombola is a collaborative writing venture using the site and the festival for inspiration. You’ll have to complete a writing task set by the editors to win… Read more

Literary blogger Dove Grey Reader aka Lynne Hatwell talks about Riptide on her blog and she likes it!   She begins by saying that she loves ‘the title too with all its connotations of undercurrents that can take you by surprise, transporting you off somewhere that perhaps you hadn’t expected to go, but with the added… Read more

Do you have a story to tell? For the Devon-themed volume, unusually, the editors are looking for two different kinds of submissions – fictional ones and ‘memoir snapshots’. Fictional stories can be up to 5000 words as usual.  The memoirs need to be very short – a brief account of no more than 500 words offering an… Read more

Riptide is now accepting submissions for a special anthology of Devon-themed stories and we are guaranteeing publication of the best short story submitted by an undergraduate at a Devon-based university.  So, if you’re an undergraduate with literary ambitions, send us a story. Details of how to submit are on our ‘Contribute’ page.  Please mark your… Read more