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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Read these six unique winning stories in a variety of genres
Announcing the annual publication volume of the Riversong Short Story Contest 2022. These unique, quirky, thought-provoking stories in various contemporary genres will delight and engage you.
The contest and volume was run and edited by Neela Tudurí-Kłepfisch, editor and writer at Sulis International Press. A panel of six publishers, editors, authors, and book reviewers reviewed more than 30 finalists to choose the six winners.
- “Redemption in the Thorny Thicket” by Sean Anderson.
- “6EQUJ5, Thank You Very Much!” by Robert McDermott**
- “Coping with Covid-19 lockdown in Pretoria” by Nape Motana
- “So Rude” by Markus McDowell
- “Prep Work” by Susanne Perry
- “Jesus and Mayo” by Jack Towe
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Direct from Riversong Books: https://sulisinternational.com/product/2022-riversong-contest/
About the Authors
Sean Anderson lives with his wife in Everett, WA. He loves reading fantasy books that take him on a journey. In his free time he enjoys open water swimming, spending time in nature, and spoiling his cat, Fancy. He is the author of The Year of Oceans and The Celestial Life, both published by Riversong Books.
Robert McDermott lives and works in Dublin. In 2019 and again in 2020 he won the INOTE short story competition. Some of his work can be found on shorterstories.ie and in journals like Critical Quarterly and Crossways. His debut novel Jone$town was published by Riversong Books in 2021. He is currently working on a new novel.
Markus McDowell is an author, editor, and ghostwriter. He has a Ph.D. in ancient religious history and literature, and a law degree from the University of London. Markus is the author of To and Fro Upon the Earth: A Novel, Onesimus: A Novel of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and The Sky Over Chaos: Short Stories by Markus McDowell. Visit his website at https://markusmcdowell.com
Nape Motana is a Creative Writing PhD, and a former social worker, journalist, and copywriter, and poet-playwright. He has written four novels, including Fanie Fourie’s Lobola, which was adapted into an award-winning movie in 2013. His play, “The Honeymoon is Over,” was produced by the Johannesburg Civic Theatre in 1996, again as a musical play during 2005, touring in three provinces in South Africa. He also adapted his novel, Hamba Sugar Daddy, into a stage-play which was submitted for V International Playwriting Contest, based in Spain. He has had four short stories published in Staffrider literary magazine and New Dawn popular magazine. His ‘Love Conquers All’ was published in the 2017 New England Poetry Anthology. He is also the author of a nonfiction work, Sepedi Proverbs. He is the author of Babatunde’s Heroic Adventure, published by Riversong Books in 2018.
Susanne Perry began writing novels in 2016 and discovered short story writing the following year. Prior to writing full time, she trained in sociology and psychology and worked with non-profit programs that serve young children and families in positions spanning classroom to management. Susanne’s three published novels, the City Streets series, are mysteries themed in urban issues and set in street communities of the Pacific Northwest. A fourth novel, a thriller about impending death and revenge, is set for publication in 2022. Susanne’s short stories are filled with questions, angst and suspense and in addition to novels and short stories, upcoming works include a children’s book about friendship and a memoir. A voracious reader of crime thrillers, mysteries, and historical fiction, Susanne’s favorite contemporary authors include Ken Follett, Sue Grafton, John Grisham, P.D. James, and Jonathan Kellerman. Susanne enjoys the classic works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, and the incredible social commentator, Charles Dickens. Find Susanne at http://suanneperrybooks.com and on LinkedIn and Instagram.
Jack Towe lives in two worlds—one conventional, the other controversial.
Now in his eighties, he has two Ivy degrees, has been a General Electric manager, a real estate developer in Cincinnati’s lowest-income community, and has many friends in the business and the professions.
He has also been through programs by Victory Outreach and the Link Program at Seattle’s Union Gospel Mission. Among his many friends are recovering ex-cons, alcoholics, and drug addicts.
A widower for more than two decades, Jack has one son, two daughters, and three grandchildren, and he lives in Everett, Washington. Currently, Jack attends both a white-collar Anglican church and a blue-collar Pentecostal church. On his bucket list is to again live in a Christian community.
About Riversong Books
Stories are the music of our lives—they connect us and speak to us in ways that nonfiction cannot. An imprint of Sulis International, Riversong Books publishes historical, literary, contemporary, science fiction, fantasy, and religious fiction that not only entertain, but allow readers to question, celebrate, and explore what it means to be human. Riversong also publishes reprints, both out-of-print novels or older works not readily available in print or eBook form. Visit https://sulisinternational.com/home/keledei-publications/.
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Cassie, the title of my story is 6EQUJ5. I emailed a while back about this.
It is correct in the book. It looks like the error crept into the promotional materials. I will make sure it has been changed,