It is our great pleasure to announce four new stories from authors all new to Nightjar, but by no means new to publishing. Jim Gibson made a splash last year with his debut collection, The Bygones (Tangerine Press). His story – ‘A Symbol of a Memory’ – is paired with ‘Styx’ by novelist, poet, musician and Brixton Review of Books columnist Will Eaves. Best known, perhaps, as a poet and non-fiction writer, Jean Sprackland showed with her contributions to Ellipsis 1 (Comma Press, 2005) what an excellent short story writer she is; ‘Death Cookies’ offers further evidence. Cynan Jones is well known for writing outstanding short novels, but, as a past winner of the BBC National Short Story Award, he is no stranger to the short story. His ‘Stock’ was commissioned as a creative response to the work of the Narrating Rural Change network, but is published in the first instance by Nightjar.
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Thank you, as ever, to John Oakey of John Oakey Design. John designs and typesets all our publications. Without him we could not function. Any technical issues with the website will be down to the technical deficiencies of the publisher, who wishes to thank his daughter, Bella Royle, for bailing him out again with invaluable help at the last minute. He much prefers taking the photographs that often appear on the covers – including these four new images – to wrestling with the website. Thanks, as always, to our excellent printers, H&H Reeds Printers Ltd of Penrith.
We still send off international orders without any degree of confidence that they will arrive in one piece, if at all. To increase the chances of success in this area, we now routinely visit the Post Office and get a tracking number for orders going overseas.
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