The two autumn 2011 hatchlings have now flown the nest. They are Christopher Kenworthy’s ‘Sullom Hill’ and GA Pickin’s ‘Remains’. Kenworthy is a British writer and film director, born in Preston in 1968, who has been living in Western Australia for a number of years. He is the author of two novels, The Winter Inside and The Quality of Light, and a short story collection, Will You Hold Me? In the early 1990s he ran the influential independent press Barrington Books. Pickin is a Californian who settled in the UK in 1976; she lives in Stranraer in Scotland where she sings and plays in a band, Luce Women, specialising in traditional music. Her short stories have appeared in anthologies. To order copies at £3 each plus 50p p&p, please email the publisher, Nicholas Royle.

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