Helen Pizzey
Helen Pizzey began writing on an Arvon Foundation Course, in November 2003. She was accepted on the Bath Spa Creative Writing MA in October 2004 and has had poems published in Mslexia and in an anthology, Images of Women, published by Arrowhead Press (a Spring 2007 PBS choice). She has also had two pieces of short fiction included in the Leaf Books anthology, The Final Theory And Other Stories, and another of her poems has been set to music by an award-winning Irish composer as part of an hour-long choral work to be premiered in County Wexford in May/November 2008.
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Discovering a Comet
and
More Micro-Fiction
ISBN 1-905599-46-3
£7.99 (plus £1 p&p)
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Imagine this: coming downstairs on a winter's morning to find that someone has shoved a tiny comet through your letterbox. Unwanted celestial light has faded the dado rail and a montage of family photographs is all askew from the eccentric orbit that it's assumed, on an axis from the umbrella stand to the cloakroom door.
Extract from runner-up ‘Discovering a Comet’ by Pauline Masurel.
Discovering a Comet and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ 2008 micro-fiction competition. From tiny comets invading your airing cupboard to still life paintings that refuse to come alive to, in Freda Love Smith’s winning story ‘Jesse and Jesus’, questions that refuse to be answered but ask you to love them all the same, it’s essentially just a bumper assorted collection of total brilliance.
The Final Theory & Other Stories
Short Short Story Anthology
Price £6.99 (p&p £1 per book)
Format: A5 64 Pages
ISBN: 1905599293
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The Leaf Books Short Short Story Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit ultra-short stories on any conceivable topic. The upper word limit was 300. There was no lower word limit: entrants were free to submit a single paragraph or even one or two lines if they felt that constituted a story.
This anthology contains 42 winning, highly commended and commended entries selected by the Leaf Team.
Imagine Coal
and
More Micro-Fiction
Short Story Anthology
Price £9.99 + £1 p&p
Format: Demi 82 Pages
ISBN: 978-1-905599-42-4
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The Woman with a Coffee Pot opposite me is so ugly with her work-a-day blue dress. Without rest I have to stare into her large, thick, round face, so like my own mother: the stern gaze, the bulbous nose. She is admired. Cezanne kept her. I am a working girl fresh from the fields, so blotted out.
‘You are the invisible form of my composition,’ he said.
– Extract from ‘Imagine Coal’ by Mary Cookson
Imagine Coal and More Micro-Fiction contains the winning entries from Leaf Books’ second micro-fiction competition of 2007. The thirty-one tiny fragments of wonderfulness within very concisely discourse on a fantastic variety of subjects, from artists’ models to attempted matricide via alien invasions, dancing GIs and elderly men with aphasia.