Contextual 31 – tomorrow!

The 31st Contextual is tomorrow, Thursday 28th November, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers are: Zanna Beswick Ama Bolton Alison Hramiak Penny McCarthy To request an invitation to attend the November event just complete the form below. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory books' events and opportunities please follow at http://www.coverstorybooks.com; you can also follow [...]

Contextual 31 – next week!

The 31st Contextual is next week, on Thursday 28th November, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers are: Zanna Beswick Ama Bolton Alison Hramiak Penny McCarthy To request an invitation to attend the November event just complete the form below. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory books' events and opportunities please follow at http://www.coverstorybooks.com; you can [...]

Published today!

We are delighted to announce the following publication: Scattered with Grace by Richard Lister (on or about the 9th November) This poetry hovers at the meeting points of seemingly disparate lives, times and places… Here we glimpse the difference grace can bring, as we discover it in human form.  Heather Shakespeare, Poet and Writing for Wellbeing [...]

New Contexts: 7 – submissions open!

Coverstory books invites submissions for the seventh edition of our New Contexts anthology which we are aiming to publish around the end of the first quarter 2025. As with the previous six editions, New Contexts: 7 will seek to showcase quality contemporary poetry and fiction, and will be made available worldwide in Paperback via internet [...]

Contextual 31 – the date and our readers!

The 31st Contextual will be on Thursday 28th November, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers are: Zanna Beswick Ama Bolton Alison Hramiak Penny McCarthy To request an invitation to attend the November event - or a link to the recording of October's event - just complete the form below. To ensure you keep up-to-date with future Coverstory [...]

Two new books!

We are delighted to announce two new publications: So, you think you're a Writer by Ian Gouge So, you think you’re a writer? Well, quite possibly you are. Indeed you may be a very good one. Or you believe you are reasonably talented, but deep down you’re not too sure that you are as ‘good’ [...]

Contextual 30 – tomorrow!

Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event - the 30th! - is tomorrow, Thursday 31st October, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers will all be reading from new or recently published collections: Richard Lister (who will read from his new collection Scattered with Grace, published on November 9th) Jenny Robb (who will read from Hear the World [...]

Contextual 30 – next Thursday!

Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event - the 30th! - will be on Thursday 31st October, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers will all be reading from new or recently published collections: Richard Lister (who will read from his new collection Scattered with Grace, published on November 9th) Jenny Robb (who will read from Hear the [...]

Contextual 30 – two weeks today!

The 30th Contextual will be on Thursday 31st October, @19:30-20:30 UK-time. Our readers will all be reading from new or recently published collections: Richard Lister Jenny Robb Ian Gouge To request an invitation to attend the October event - or a link to the recording of September's event - just complete the form below. To [...]

Three new books on the way!

We are delighted to announce three new publications coming up in the next five weeks: So, you think you're a Writer by Ian Gouge (October 31st) So, you think you’re a writer? Well, quite possibly you are. Indeed you may be a very good one. Or you believe you are reasonably talented, but deep down [...]