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Jamie Guiney is a skilful writer of startling literary short stories. His two works, The Amazing Chen and Turn The Big Light On are available to read on our website. Based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, Jamie is a graduate of the Faber & Faber Writing Academy. He prefers writing short stories, believing it to be the closest

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One of our winter stories, David Butler's 'Too Cold for Snow' is a tale about family, its' support and a wrenching sense of guilt. I’ve slept badly again. The farmhouse is unearthly cold. Alive, too, in the still of night, with ticks, groans, intestinal gurgles. The fridge, juddering to a halt. Alice was restless. Shy of dawn I he

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A winter story, 'The Osprey at Dusk' by Yvonne Dykes tells an intimate story of a married couple who has fallen out of love. I drive. You said you were tired, hadn’t slept all night. The journey to the Lakes takes longer than I remembered. There are more cars on the road, the lorries are bigger; they conspire to keep me in the slow l

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Barbara Mercer is one of the Fairlight Books' most original writers. She's the author of the popular short story The Glow Worm. Born and raised in Manchester, Barbara read English at Royal Holloway, University of London. Throughout the years she has worked as a designer and editor in various publishing companies, with a specific focus in

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Kathryn Marie Halton is the short story writer of Ever Decreasing Circles - a moving tale about what it is like to feel alone and lonely. Kathryn graduated from the University College of Ripon and York St John in the early 1990s, with a BA Hons in English Literature and History. Her dissertation was a paper on the works of Jack Kerouac

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Things I Have Learnt About Jason Donovan Jason Donovan has been living under my bed in a Vitalite margarine tub since yesterday afternoon and he is a terrible listener, likes eating insects, and has a difficult relationship with Kylie Minogue. Also, he won’t let me introduce him to the girls at school because he’s only about as big

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Ready or Not by Abi Hynes When Misha lost her fifth baby tooth, she understood that she was going to die one day. She couldn’t say why it was this tooth in particular that had caused this revelation, but there it was, plain as the bloody molar in her palm: the truth, plucked out into the open from a place where it had been hiding,

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Living in central Scotland, Eilidh G Clark is a writer of touching short stories and poetry. She recalls lazy summer holidays spent in the back garden, drawing pictures in her notebooks, writing short stories to go with them and imagining that she might one day become a modern day Enid Blyton. Eilidh continued to scribble her way through

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Our Story of the Week is The Brief Literary Career of Lewis Burgess, a literary story from the writer Paul Sutton Reeves. Paul’s writing experience covers a range of styles. He wrote the biography of avant-garde musician Bill Nelson and worked as a freelance journalist on the topics of music and economics. Paul also teaches economics

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Abi Hynes is one of Fairlight Books' most eloquent short story authors. Her two fantastic stories - Ready or Not and The Ghosts from Kathmandu are available on our website. Based in Manchester, she is a drama and fiction writer whose writing have been published in a variety of places online and in print, including Litro, Syntax &

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