Elizabeth Baines

Elizabeth Baines
Writer of prize-winning prose fiction and plays

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

THURSDAY 22nd MAY

Manchester Central Library
Committee Room, 2nd Floor, 1-2pm
A Salt Publishing event

Elizabeth will read from her collection of stories,
Balancing on the Edge of the World
(Salt Modern Fiction)
Also reading will be Salt short-story writers Carys Davies and Andre Mangeot and Manchester Salt poet Shamshad Khan.

SATURDAY 24th MAY
Chorlton Library
Manchester Road, Manchester 21,
11.30am-1.30pm
A Chorlton Festival event

Workshop:
Short Stories at the Cutting Edge
Elizabeth will read from her stories and talk about the resurgence of short stories and their role in the current rise of independent publishing. She will talk about writing stories and getting them published and there will be opportunity for practical work

'A terrific collection - luminous, witty and wise' - Livi Michael

'Elizabeth Baines has led me through a myriad of seemingly ordinary moments and invested them with extraordinary power ...Pace your way slowly through the myriad lives ... and know that you will have met a great cross section of life today. It is the microscopic quality of Elizabeth Baines' eye that makes each and every one of these stories so special.' - Dovegreyreader. Full review here.

'Lyrical and clear-sighted ...Enormous aplomb ...Very well-written' - Adele Geras. Full review here.

Order here or here.

Fragments from the Dark
Edited by Jeni Williams and Latefa Guemar
(Hafan Books)

Elizabeth contributes to this moving anthology alongside Carol Rumens, Tessa Hadley, Trezza Azzopardi and others. It features work by professionals and amateurs, either born Welsh or settled in Wales, and includes testimonies, poems and stories about lost homes from women who have found themselves swept out by tides of violence and arrived, dazed with shock and loss, in Wales.