Elizabeth Baines

Elizabeth Baines

'An innovative and committed writer of distinctly pure talent'- The Short Review
'A skilled fabulist - one with a gift to see the fabulous in the mundane'
- Clare Dudman

FORTHCOMING READING
7 pm, Wednesday 8th July,
Oxfam Bookshop, 778 Wilmslow Rd Manchester, M20 2DR 0161 434 5380

OTHER FORTHCOMING READINGS

BALANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Salt Modern Fiction)

'Quite swept me off my feet ' - Dovegreyreader
'A stunning debut collection' - The Short Review.

For reviews see short story page.
Order here.

TOO MANY MAGPIES

Can we believe in magic and spells? A young mother fearful for her children in a polluted and uncertain world meets a charismatic stranger who seems to offer a special kind of power…

A new novel by Elizabeth Baines, due from Salt Modern Fiction, Oct 2009.

Elizabeth will be collaborating with Eco-Libris to plant a tree for every copy printed.

A virtual book tour.
Elizabeth visited blogs to answer questions about Balancing on the Edge of the World, her writing process and her writing life. Find out all about it here.

OTHER NEWS

PUBLICATIONS

Elizabeth is writing a new series of short stories, one of which, 'The Choice Chamber', appears in the second issue of the new online literary magazine, Horizon Review.

Another, 'Possibility', appeared in the first issue.

Another story in the new series, 'Used to Be', won third prize in the Raymond Carver Short Story Competition 2008 and appears online in Carve Magazine.