Line Breaks: 2 – deadline 28th Feb

Line Breaks: 2 – deadline 28th Feb

We are aiming for the second issue of our on-line poetry anthology, Line Breaks, to be published at the end of March 2022. As with Line Breaks: 1, the second collection will have its own dedicated page on this site and will be available free to read - though obviously subject to all the usual [...]

As a Writer…

As a Writer there's nothing quite like seeing your words coalesce, watching characters develop and take on a life of their own, or weaving meaning and narrative into a poem. As an Editor and publisher there's nothing like that frisson of excitement you get when someone submits a piece for a collection or asks you [...]

Redesigned website!

Redesigned website!

We have redesigned the Coverstory books website - why not take a look? There is a new homepage.A page of Testimonials.And we've revamped the pages for our Fiction, Poetry, and Plays/Non-fiction. We hope you'll like the improvements we have made!

The New Year starts here!

Forget 1st January; it's only when the holidays end and people go back to work / school and the 9-to-5 starts in earnest that we truly get a sense of the New Year beginning. And with that, it already looks as if the first quarter is going to be very busy for Coverstory books! What [...]

Published today: “Shrapnel from a Writing Life”

Published today: “Shrapnel from a Writing Life”

Coverstory books is delighted to announce the publication of Ian Gouge's latest work "Shrapnel from a Writing Life". Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a number of hand-written books, I have been keeping what might be termed a record; although on reflection, even the [...]

“New Contexts: 3” – Open for Submissions

“New Contexts: 3” – Open for Submissions

Coverstory books invites submissions for a literary compendium aiming to publish in the Spring 2022. The volume - “New Contexts: 3” - seeks to showcase contemporary work, both poetry and fiction, and will be made available in both Paperback and ebook formats. The first two volumes in the series were published during 2021. Poetry: please [...]

Coming soon: “Making Marks in the Sand”

Coming soon: “Making Marks in the Sand”

Coverstory books is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication in early 2022 of "Making Marks in the Sand", an anthology of internationally curated short stories. The nature of relationships dominates this collection of contemporary short stories; not just relationships between people, but also between individuals and their pasts and - in consequence - their potential [...]

Coming soon: “Shrapnel from a Writing Life”

Coming soon: “Shrapnel from a Writing Life”

Coverstory books is delighted to announce the publication in January of Ian Gouge's latest work "Shrapnel from a Writing Life". Above all else, this is the story of a journey.Over the last thirty-seven years or so, across a number of hand-written books, I have been keeping what might be termed a record; although on reflection, [...]

Line Breaks: 2 – March 2022

Line Breaks: 2 – March 2022

We are aiming for the second issue of our on-line poetry anthology, Line Breaks, to be published in March 2022. As with Line Breaks: 1, the second collection will have its own dedicated page on this site and will be available free to read - though obviously subject to all the usual copyright rules! We [...]

Line Breaks: 1 – live today!

Line Breaks: 1 – live today!

The first issue of our on-line poetry anthology, Line Breaks, is now live on the website here. The collection, containing twenty poems from twelve poets, is available free to read - though obviously subject to all the usual copyright rules! We are delighted to have made this new work public, and hope it will be [...]