Dublin Creative Writers launch fourth Anthology

I’m very pleased to present the cover reveal and launch date of November 28, 2023 for the Dublin Creative Writers‘ fourth anthology: Untold Stories: an Anthology. I’m further pleased because one of my stories makes an encore, “For A Cup of Tea”, originally published in On Spec, Issue 23, Winter 1995. It’s an alternative history, and a bit of a romp, examining the famed race between the tea clippers, Cutty Sark and Thermopylae. I’m also very pleased to be sharing the table of contents with legendary Canadian author, Jean-Louis Trudel.

The Scoop on Untold Stories

Sometimes the greatest stories, the truest stories, are the ones that nobody hears. Tales that would shock or delight or horrify you, if only you knew how things really were. Truths that have lain undiscovered beneath the surface, behind the mask, beyond the history books, or just around the corner… until now.

Featuring:

A. Howitt, Anne Johnston, Chris Vannes, Cliff McNish, Daryn Wilde, e rathke, Franco Amati, Gabrielle Gold, James Hancock, Jean-Louis Trudel, J.H. Schiller, Kristen Whitney, Liam Hogan, Lorina Stephens, Marilia Bonelli, Martin Vian, Michael Whitfield, Rebecca Grubb, Sarah McHatton, & Thomas Brown

Untold Stories is a collection of short stories & flash fiction written by established and emerging authors of the Dublin Creative Writers, as well as some new friends they’ve invited along. Spanning a range of genres and styles, these works depict new perspectives on the myths and history we’ve grown up with as well as the hidden stories we keep to ourselves.

An overview from Editors Chris Vannes and Anne Johnston

We live in a world constructed of stories. From tales of national origins and lost empires, to behemoth movie franchises, iconic athletes, charismatic business founders, and aspirational brands, our lives and identities are interwoven with the stories we embrace. Stories help us make sense of chaos, remind us that growth and change are inevitable, and provide us with models for courage and leadership. Stories are powerful, beautiful, and necessary.

But they are also, by definition, a singular perspective and version of the world–-a useful simplification, certainly, but still, a simplification. Behind the familiar myths we recite, beneath the daily masks we wear, are another class of tales. New perspectives, unvoiced emotions, lurking terrors, and unexpected vistas, all waiting to cast a strange new light on the familiar world.

Dublin Creative Writers (DCW) presents our fourth collection, Untold Stories: an Anthology. Contributors were given only the mysterious title as their premise. In a first for us, our Kickstarter project for publishing expenses also exposed our call for submissions to a much broader segment of writers. We received a torrent of terrific stories from across the English-speaking world. What emerged from that process is a collection we’re proud to share with you: Twenty original works covering a range of genres from history, fantasy, and mythology to humor and memoir, ranging in length from flash fiction to more substantial narratives, written by our own DCW authors as well as some fantastic new friends.

We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed writing and collecting them. May they inspire you to examine the stories all around us a bit more closely—if you peer through the cracks, at just the right angle, there may be secret depths waiting within!

Where to Find Dublin Creative Writers and the Anthology?

Dublin Creative Writers can be found on their website, which is linked several places within this post. They also have an Instagram presence @dublincreativewriters.

Untold Stories will be available in trade paperback and ebook through Amazon November 28, 2023.