In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Wilma Lång reads her flash fiction “The Houseboat” from Roehampton University’s seventh creative writing student anthology All That Glitters.
Wilma is a Finnish writer, who spent the first nine years of her life in Sheveningen, The Netherlands, and the rest in London. “The Houseboat” is a love letter to home.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Veslemøy Stavdahl reads her short story “Goodsprings” from Roehampton University’s sixth creative writing student anthology The Box.
Veslemøy loves writing stories that don’t make sense to her until they are finished (sometimes not even then). She is interested in strange behaviour and has a habit of infusing her stories with magical elements. She is twice published by Fincham Press and is honoured to have been chosen for this anthology as well.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Lilly-Ann A. Newman reads her short story “Hotel Fuori Strada” from Roehampton University’s seventh creative writing student anthology All That Glitters.
Lilly-Ann studied Creative Writing and Journalism at the University of Roehampton. She is the founder and former editor of Fresh Media, an online student magazine, and a former intern at Fincham Press. Her literary influences include Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler. When not writing or battling the dreaded writer’s block, Lilly-Ann is a connoisseur of tea, biscuits, and all things Alice in Wonderland.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Rebecca Bardsley-Ball reads her poem You Never Did Anything Wrong from Roehampton University’s seventh creative writing student anthology All That Glitters.
Rebecca lives in South London and will forever dislike the people who say she’s from Kent. Despite previously claiming to hate poetry, her first publication, You Never Did Anything Wrong is a poem. She sees the irony. The ending of the poem is supposed to be bittersweet; they’re out of the relationship, but forever affected by it.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Kate Griffin reads her short story “Ancara” from Roehampton University’s seventh creative writing student anthology All That Glitters.
Kate is a third-year Creative Writing student. “Ancara” is her first published short story, she hopes this will be the start of many. She can be found on Instagram at @itskategriffin.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Jacob Bathgate reads his poem How To Write A Sonnet from Roehampton University’s sixth creative writing student anthology The Box.
Jacob studied Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. He lives in London and splits his time between cycling, building Lego, procrastinating, writing lists and talking about himself in the third person. He is not to be trusted.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Jon Call reads his short story “The House of Chicken Wire” from Roehampton University’s seventh creative writing student anthology, All That Glitters.
Jon lives in Chicago, Illinois. He was born and raised in a small town in Wyoming and prefers mountains to skyscrapers. He has the literary guilty pleasures of an edgy frat boy, including Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson, but he truly loves reading different slices of Americana, from Carver to O’Conner. He graduated from Lake Forest College with a bachelor’s degree in English and is pursuing an MA in Teaching.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
In preparation for the upcoming Hidden Treasures book launch of Fincham Press’s two student anthologies, The Box and All That Glitters, students whose work is featured in the anthologies read their work.
Haley Jenkins reads her poem Home Is A Place She Cannot Find from Roehampton University’s sixth creative writing student anthology The Box.
Haley published her first poetry collection Nekorb in 2017 (Veer Books). She has been published twice by Fincham Press, in Guttural magazine, Tears in the Fence, painted spoken, The Journal of British & Irish Innovative Poetry, Plaster Cocktail, and others. She runs Selcouth Station Press, an online imprint committed to new writers.
Get your ticket to attend the upcoming free double book launch event of The Box and our newest anthology All That Glitters.
An interview with Aidan Chambers about his 2020 Fincham Press book The Age Between can now be watched in full online
On 4 November 2020, Aidan Chambers’ most recent critical work The Age Between: Personal Reflections on Youth Fiction (Fincham Press, 2020) was launched online at the inaugural YA Studies Association (YASA) conference. At the event – which was co-organised by Fincham Press, YASA, and the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature (NCRCL) at the University of Roehampton – Chambers was in conversation with his editor, Dr Alison Waller (Reader, NCRCL). This discussion, which covered everything from the theory of ‘youth fiction’ that Chambers elaborates in The Age Between to his long, illustrious career as a widely acclaimed novelist and theorist, can now be watched in full below, or on Vimeo.
In the thoughtful set of essays that comprise The Age Between, acclaimed author and critic Aidan Chambers presents his manifesto for youth fiction, weaving together insights from literary history, stylistics, narrative theory, and other fields. Chambers brings a freshness to the analysis of classic texts such as J D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Anne Frank’s Diary, and Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War, and thinks aloud about the shape, purpose, and future of youth fiction in a lively interview with Deborah Cogan Thacker.
Copies of The Age Between are available for purchase directly from Fincham Press or on Amazon UK.
After a pause last year, Fincham Press is releasing its two latest student writing anthologies together this May. Readers can hear from the authors in a series of online public readings from May 10, leading up to a live online panel event on Tuesday May 25.
The two collections, All That Glittersand The Box, were held up by the pandemic shut-downs of the last year, but they are now going ahead, with the joint theme of Hidden Treasures. The final event on May 25 will take place via Zoom from 18.30h to 20h, when our special guests Clare Bogan and Giselle Leeb will explore the delights of the anthology as a format.
Clare Bogen is the founding editor of 3 of Cups press, which started in 2017 in the hopes of creating a more equal literary landscape. 3 of Cups have released four anthologies of short stories and creative non-fiction, and are currently working on a poetry anthology to be released later this year. Clare is also the publicity director at Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Giselle Leeb grew up in South Africa and lives in Nottingham. Her short stories have appeared in over forty publications, including Best British Short Stories 2017 (Salt), Ambit, Mslexia, The Lonely Crowd, Litro, and Black Static. She has been placed or shortlisted in competitions including the Ambit, Bridport and Mslexia prizes. She is an assistant editor at Reckoning Journal and a Word Factory Apprentice Award winner 2019, and was recently chosen to attend the David Higham Associates New Writers’ open week. Her story, ‘Scaffolding’, is forthcoming in MAINSTREAM, an anthology of stories from the edges, from Inkandescent.
It is a special delight to bring these two books into the world and reward the patience of their student contributors.
‘I’m thrilled to hear that All That Glitters is finally being published, and my poem, ‘The Last Time’ will be included,’ says Annabel Black, who is studying creative writing and drama, theatre & performance studies.
You can order the two books here. Meanwhile we invite you to follow Fincham Press on social media (see links below) for the latest updates about the Hidden Treasure book launch.
