June 2012
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The origins of the Unbound book, "26 Treasures",...
John Simmons, of “26 Treasures” (a book that has now been fully funded and is on its way to publication by Unbound - click here to find out more about how that worked) has written a guest blog over at the bookstore Foyles’ website on how the book came to be:
The 26 Treasures project began with an exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2010 and then spread to...
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Unbound's Third Live Event Live 3 (Stevyn Colgan's...
Unbound author, Stevyn Colgan (whose book, Constable Colgan’s Connectoscope is being crowd-funded for publication - find out more about how that works here), has written a great round-up of Unbound Live no.3…
Unbound Live 3
Le Baron at The Embassy Mayfair in London was the venue last night for Unbound Live 3; an evening of readings, talks and general tomfoolery by a bunch of...
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Jessica Jones shares her Survival Guide on...
Who better to write a guide for keeping it together that the author of the memoir The Elegant Art of Falling Apart. Luckily for us Jessica Jones put herself back together and shares with us her tips for staying sane. Follow Jessica’s guide and stay sane.
‘After decades of in-depth research and field-testing (read: cancer; addiction; car-crash relationships; financial disasters and occasional...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: Special Mention...
The Cherry Tree in my Sister’s Room
Sophie cried when they chopped the tree down. She hadn’t realised what it meant.
She looked out the window at the tarmac where petals used to make confetti. The Neruda she was reading was face down on the window ledge, the spine split. Men in yellow jackets were chopping down the tree in the school grounds at the back of our house. Their saws buzzed through...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: Special Mention (Marc...
Just Aphasia I’m Going Through
The Doctor points out the bubble-like alien parasiting my brain. Looked like an embryo was growing there. A second me. Swiping a second-hand consciousness. Paying me neither rent nor mind. Yet taxing me a tithe of my cells. The bare faced cheek of it. Tithe not shaved in a month now. To my delugeded pain receptors, the razor felt like it was scooping out the...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: Special Mention (Mike...
Sit with me a little
Sit with me a little, and listen with me.
I will fill you with sorrow, will dark you,
un hinge you, un understand you,
demolish you.
Together we can watch as the world
disintegrates, breaks up, dies.
We can hear the screaming.
Can you hear the screaming?
How does it sound to you?
Is it loud or is it drowned out?
There is a little clump of dandelions out there
in my garden. ...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: 3rd Place (Bernise...
That Tearing
By Bernise Marie D. Carolino
Let’s read a story you say with the book open on your lap as you sit me down next to you and we turn the pages and as we are reading we are also writing the story as we go along and as the papers rustle they echo strangely in this empty room and it is all a lie because the book is on the table and my hands are on the pages and they are all mixed up...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: 2nd Place (Karla...
Li Shin thought about how she wanted them to find her. She would rest her head to the side. Her grey hair, which she twisted into a bun every morning, and held together with six small black pins and no more, would face them as they entered the kitchen.
At the doorway they would see her bun and the strawberries laid out on the table. Skin washed and leaves cut off, ready for them to eat. That...
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Unbound Flash Fiction Prize: 1st Place (Laura...
Him & Her.
‘I’m falling apart’, he joked, rubbing his throbbing left wrist.
She didn’t laugh. She didn’t even look up from the television that blared out like a wall between them.
He sloped off to bed and slept, despite the noise from the room below and the jolts of pain shooting down his left arm.
She went to the pantry and returned with the gingerbread man and bit down.
He awoke...
Winners of the Unbound Flash Fiction Prize!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the Unbound Flash Fiction Prize, for works of under 250 words on the theme of “Falling Apart”.
First: Laura Huntley Second: Karla Ch’ien Third: Bernise Carolino Congratulations to all and please expect an email soon about receiving your prizes! Special mentions go to Angela Readman, Marc Nash (David Sewell), and Mike Coote.
Judges’...
Anonymous asked: When is the " Chichester Festival Theatre at Fifty" likely to be printed and delivered?
Anonymous asked: Hello, do you have an estimate of when the Jonathan Meades book will be published, I understand that it has been delayed again ?
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Unbound Live at the Hay Festival
If you’re at the Hay festival today, don’t forget to catch Unbound Live (with our authors Katy Brand, Jessica Jones, George Chopping and Hardeep Singh Kohli) today at 2:30 in the Sky Arts Studio.
