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August 2008 - Elastic Press launches more titles.

Gareth L Powell, Chris Beckett

Gareth L Powell and Chris Beckett at the launch of their Elastic Press
collections, August 2008

September 2007 - September 2007: Elastic Press scoops the BFS Best Anthology award for the third year running!

BFS Award Winners 2007

Gary Couzens, top, second from left, accepted the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology 2007 for his editorship of Extended Play. Many thanks for all of you who voted for us.

April 2007 - Launch of Going Back

Tony Richards

Tony Richards reads from his collection at Alt. Fiction in Derby

 

November 2006 - Launch of Extended Play and Photocopies of Heaven

Lene Lovich

Lene Lovich and Les Chappell perform at the book launch for Extended Play at the Arts Theatre Club in Soho. A slideshow of the event featuring all the authors and performers can be viewed on our myspace page

 

September 2006 - Best Anthology Award for The Elastic Book of Numbers

Allen Ashley, bottom left, accepted the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology 2006 for his editorship of The Elastic Book of Numbers. Many thanks for all of you who voted for us

September 2006 - Unbecoming Launched

Mike O'Driscoll, left, at the launch of his collection of short stories, Unbecoming, at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, standing with Rhys Hughes who also launched his Pendragon Press collection At The Molehills of Madness the same evening

 

April 2006 - Launch for The Ephemera

Ephemera LaunchNeil Williamson

Neil Williamson reads from The Ephemera at his book launch during EasterCon in Glasgow

January 2006 - Launch for The Last Days of Johnny North

Last Days of Johnny North Launch David Swann Reading

"The Last Days of Johnny North" by David Swann was launched at the Taurus Bar in Manchester on 28th January 2006 to a packed audience. The launch included readings from David plus some Coronation Street cast members (From left to right: David Swann, Julia Haworth, Paul Simpson, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Ian Kershaw).


January 2006 - Extended Play – Notes on submissions so far

This statement should be read in conjunction with the guidelines for “Extended Play: The Elastic Book of Music” which can be found here on the Elastic Press website.

The deadline for submissions for this anthology is 30th April 2006, and to date we’ve had an encouraging and steady influx of stories, with the overall quality quite high. Perhaps unsurprisingly several stories are about being in/hanging around with local/amateur/student bands in the recent past (which presumably corresponds to the author's late teens or early twenties), and whilst we’re not discouraging any more of these stories – we’re not making any firm acceptances until the deadline passes – to avoid the repetition of theme such stories will need to beat a lot of competition to make the final cut.

Secondly, we’re finding there are quite a lot of stories about rock music (and everyone's taste is oh-so-credible at that!). Naturally, the quality of the story will take precedence over anything else, but where are all the good classical stories, or dance stories, or something about world music? Or how about a story about a nine year old girl who was into Busted but is now into McFly? And what about when Take That split? There is a place for naff music if you can find a great angle upon which to hang a story!

With four months to go there is still plenty of opportunity to gain a place in what we hope will be another groundbreaking anthology from the award-winning Elastic Press. Write your story now!


November 2005 - Tim Nickels Launch

Tim Nickels

The English Soil Society Launch

"Tim Nickels reads from 'The English Soil Society' at his launch on 29th October 2005. The 'Nature Table' theme for the launch proved a success!"


October 2005 - British Fantasy Society Awards 2005

Elastic Press won two prestigious British Fantasy Society Awards during FantasyCon in Walsall this month. Not only did we scoop the award for Best Small Press, but "The Alsiso Project" was voted as Best Anthology. Many thanks to all those who voted for us, and who have supported us over the past three years!

Allen Ashley and Andrew Hook with EP's BFS Awards

 

Allen Ashley and Andrew Hook in celebratory mood with the awards

Andrew Humphrey, Andrew Hook, Allen Ashley and Nick Jackson

Elastic Press authors (from l-r) Andrew Humphrey, Andrew Hook, Allen Ashley, and Nick Jackson read from their story collections as part of the Norwich Fringe Festival 2005

 

May 2005 - Launch for The Life To Come, by Tim Lees

Tim Lees

Tim Lees, reading from his Elastic Press collection "The Life To Come", at the launch of the book in London on 30th April 2005

 

February 2005 - Launch for The Elastic Book of Numbers

Elastic Book of Numbers Launch

From left to right: Tim Nickels, John Lucas, Paul Evanby, Des Lewis, Jetse de Vries, Nick Jackson, John Worley, Neil Williamson, Dave Gullen, Gary Couzens, and Antony Mann eagerly anticipate Allen Ashley drawing their winning bingo numbers at the launch for The Elastic Book of Numbers.

Launch for Nick Jackson's collection - 'Visits To The Flea Circus'

Visits To The Flea Circus Launch

From left to right: Sean & Trisha Wright from Crowswing Books, Nick and friends, and Nick and Andrew Humphrey happily celebrate the launch of Nick Jackson's Visits to the Flea Circus at the Norwich Playhouse.


 

Archive

The Virtual Menagerie - Press Release

The Virtual Menagerie -Launch

The Virtual Menagerie - Reading

Second Contact - Press Release

Book signing - February 2003

Sleepwalkers - Launch

CWA Dagger Awards News

Milo and I - Press Release

Milo and I - Launch

The Alsiso Project - Launch and Press Release

Jung's People - Launch

Elastic Book of Numbers - Press Release

Somnambulists - Signing

Sound of White Ants - Reading

Somnambulists - Launch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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