{"id":815,"date":"2019-06-11T15:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/?p=815"},"modified":"2024-08-28T10:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:52:17","slug":"story-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/2019\/06\/11\/story-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Cities:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book Ed by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Kam Rehal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/fach\/kam-rehal\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kam Rehal<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Rosamund Davies (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gre.ac.uk\/people\/rep\/fach\/rosamund-davies\" target=\"_blank\">Rosamund Davies<\/a>&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arachnepress.com\/authors\/authors-a-c-by-first-name\/cherry-potts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cherry Potts<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story Cities<\/em>&nbsp;explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arachnepress.com\/books\/short-stories\/story-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Book-story-cities.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Book-story-cities.jpg 584w, https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/07\/Book-story-cities-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story Cities<\/em>&nbsp;explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. <br>New flash fictions (no more than 500 words) in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, caf\u00e9s, hotels, parks, stations and ports; the main streets, side streets, back alleys, dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Book was Launched  event was on <strong> Thursday 20th June, 7pm <\/strong>with readings and cake at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, 10 Stockwell Street, SE10 9BD  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align:center\"><em>This brilliant collection of flash fiction sparkles with originality and many of its images stayed with me; the mechanical cigarette machine which sounds like a 12 gauge shot gun being loaded, the commuter obsessing about another commuter\u2019s shoes, the sense of safety, belonging and ownership you can experience while on a train, the ghosts you only see when you are sad, the 123 lost gloves mourning their partners, and the couple kissing in a public square aware that they are making a memory not just for themselves but for everyone else who witnesses it, an act that becomes part of the square\u2019s collective history, embedding itself in the bones of the city. This collection of precision-crafted meditations on public spaces makes us realise that everywhere we go in a city we are only ever a few feet away from a writer jotting it all down in a their moleskin, helping us rethink our feelings about shared environments, crowds, transport and architecture \u2013 the throwaway beauty of urban life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Ed by Kam Rehal,&nbsp;Rosamund Davies&nbsp;and&nbsp;Cherry Potts Story Cities&nbsp;explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-publication","tag-sod"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/3322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/scholarsinspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}