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Congratulations Ian :)

I'm pleased to announce that copies of my 2005 Crowswing Books collection, "Beyond Each Blue Horizon", which is no longer available from the publisher, can now be bought direct from my website. I have both formats of the book available. The signed limited edition hardback with cover art by...

Tis true! Reasons for the closure are as below as taken from our newsletter dated 29th December: Welcome to another instalment of Elastic News! This newsletter is a bit of a watershed for us, because it contains the announcement that we’ll be closing to future publications with immediate...

Blimey! I haven't come to these forums for over a year...time certainly flies! Anyway, this book is not only now full, it's being launched this coming Saturday at a fun event in London. Get yourself down to the Citte of York pub, 22 High Holborn (nearest tube Chancery Lane), from 2-6pm and buy...

Sorry about thinking you'd quoted Allen! It sounded like one of his soundbites (the not new-weird, not bizarro thing!), and I thought you'd read the submission guidelines to the project on our website. Guess I should have checked! I agree with quite a few entries in the list you've linked to...

Hi Giovanna Well, we tend to publish "slipstream" and in many ways I don't know what that is until I see it! Generally, I publish what I like - and that's what excites me: a story that makes me want to read it over and again, and one which I feel some "connection" with. The word "slipstream"...

Hi Susannah Many thanks for the query (and to Ian for pointing it out, as I don't come here as often as I should!) I agree that in most instances authors should expect some renumeration for their work, and as an author myself I always tend to approach paying markets before submitting work to...

In a few weeks time we’ll be holding the launch of Jai Clare’s collection of stories, “The Cusp of Something”, and we’d love you to be able to attend. The event takes place on Sunday 4th November from 2pm until 4pm approx at the delightfully named Filthy McNasty’s Whiskey Café, 68 Amwell Street...

Hi Ian Got my contributor copy of the book in the post today and it looks fantastic. Well done! Sorry I couldn't make the launch, but as you know we were on our way back from France. Look forward to catching up with you at FCon.

Thought I'd draw your attention to a story I've just had published in a FREE downloadable PDF magazine over at http://www.fiction-online.co.uk/. I've put this under the publishing heading as it's a paying market - something rare for a online outlet. And not only that, but in terms of the payment...

Our next Elastic title, "That's Entertainment" by Robert Neilson will be published on 1st August 2007. This is the blurb: “Superman was always a *******.” “You can’t say that.” “It’s my autobiography. In my head, it’s always started with that line.” In these fourteen short...

Hi all Elastic Press will be opening submissions from 1st June 2007 for a new anthology, "Subtle Edens: The Elastic Book of Slipstream", to be edited by Allen Ashley. Please follow the link via our home page (Elastic Press - Publishing at the edges of reality and fantasy) to see more...

Another excellent review of Mat Coward's "So Far, So Near" can now be read over at the Strange Horizons website. It concludes: "Funny, touching, intelligent and challenging, the stories in this collection show how much can be accomplished in a short story as well as the value to be gained from...

Reviews of Elastic Press books, "So Far, So Near" by Mat Coward, "Extended Play" edited by Gary Couzens, and "Photocopies of Heaven" by Maurice Suckling can all now be read online at the Future Fire website (The Future Fire: 2007.08 review index). There's also a review of my own non-genre...

Our 1st May 2007 title, "Going Back" by Tony Richards, was launched at the Alt.Fiction event in Derby last Saturday. The event itself was excellent - some brilliant sales at the Elastic Press dealers table - and the launch itself went very well. "Going Back" is a collection of fourteen dark...

Just a note to mention that our submission reading period opened again from 1st May. Whilst it's not mentioned on our website yet, please note that for our short story collections we are only reading UK-based authors during this period due to a backlog of non-UK authors waiting publication...

One of our titles has been recommended in the May 2007 horror round-up issue of Locus magazine by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow. She says: 'The best strictly horror collections were: [two other titles discussed] Unbecoming: And Other Tales of Horror by Mike O'Driscoll (Elastic Press)...

An in-depth review of "So Far, So Near" by Dru Pagliassotti, can now be read online at The Harrow. It concludes: "Speculative fiction fans will be missing a bet if they don't pick up this collection." Yep!

Thanks for the welcomes! Onto the questions: 1. we publish a wide range of authors. Some of whom, taking Mat Coward for example, have had work published over a number of years: stories in Interzone, The Third Alternative, various anthologies, as well as the popular writer's guide "Success...

Hi all From now until the end of the month (ie: midnight on 31st March GMT) we're running a special offer limited to the Chronicles discussion board. Normally £6.99, we'll be selling our "Extended Play" anthology of short stories and non-fiction at a reduced price of £5.00 plus the usual...