Tilebury

Dancers

"I can almost hear Ophiuchus laughing from the stars. A nasty sibilant kind of snigger."

Tilebury Harbinger - Horoscope

"The Mark was on my arm behind the elbow. At first it seemed like just another patch of dry skin, rough to the touch and hard to see."

Markham's Disease, Horror

"Harriet Morton was a fake, through and through. She had so perfected her frauds over ninety-three years that they were now an integral part of everything she did."

In a High-End Guesthouse by the Sea, Crime

"The purple dragon had stolen a small herd of sheep yesterday and was consequently still full and occasionally burping up wool-balls."

Gwenda and the Purple Dragon, Fables

"Unhesitatingly I would hand it over. Restitutio in Integrum the lawyers might say."

I found a Book, Crime

"As long as you have set your ambition as being "I don't want to be laughed at" you will be okay."

Tilebury Harbinger - Wellbeing

"'Earn yer money first, kid. Only after - be a hippie.'"

Sage Counsel of a Solar Panel Serviceman, Crime

"The black-eyed old man leant forward and, with deliberation, offered his right hand, palm down, to the centre of the candle's flame."

The Elemental, Horror

"Those guys weren't, in any way, sensible and, with them, what 'must have happened,' never actually did. Basically, it wasn't ever like you think it should have been, if you hear about it after."

The Flowering, Horror
glasses on a table

Accolades

Awards, prizes and mentions.

Competitions to which we are grateful for considering the work of Tilebury's authors.

A determined woman's face

Far, far away

Alicia Elfston

Winner of the Cambridge Fiction Award in September 2015 - a a flash fiction competition with keyword "Sand".

A motorbike and rider

Biking to Find the Boy

Corrine Celia

Highly Commended in Chris Fielden's excellent To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition 2015. 2015 Anthology is available. Horror(-ish).

A Bat at Night

Transmogrification for Insomniacs

Corrine Celia

Highly Commended again(!) in Chris Fielden's continuously excellent To Hull and Back Humorous Short Story Competition 2016. 2016 Anthology is available. Also Horror(-ish). Sensing a theme?

An Angry Writer

Pride in Creation

Kirsten Krone-Wilson

Winner of the Verbolatry Laugh-a-Riot Contest 2016, run by the humorous Devyani Borade and her creative Alter Ego Debora. Humour.

A bonfire on the Tor

Honeysuckle Happiness Hospice

Kirsten Krone-Wilson

Shortlisted in the Earlyworks Press short story competition 2016, and published in the 2016 short story anthology Apples, Shadows and Light. Humour.

Also Shortlisted in the Retreat West short story competition 2016, and due to be published in the 2016 short story anthology. Humour.

Plants on a Beach

The Flowering

Corrine Celia

Longlisted in the Earlyworks Press short story competition 2016, and published in the 2016 short story anthology Apples, Shadows and Light. Horror.

A boy playing the nose harp

The Reluctant Messiahs

Kirsten Krone-Wilson

Longlisted in the Earlyworks Press short story competition 2016, and published in the 2016 short story anthology Apples, Shadows and Light. Humour.

A body Hanging

The Suicide of Uncle Alex - opening chapter

Ian Ross

Winner of the 2017 Winchester Writers' Festival Writing Competition, in the Writing can be Murder category for the first 500 words of a crime novel with a murder theme. Crime.

A sniper with a paintball gun

Flash Bang

Kirsten Krone-Wilson

Longlisted in the Dorest Fiction Award 2017. Humour.

All stories are written by Ian Tucker.