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We are pleased to announce the beginning of our series of StarkLight Press interviews with the winners of our short story contests! Starting this Saturday, July 5, we will begin posting our interviews with our contest winners, where we discuss the inspirations for their work, their own impetus to write, and their favorite authors and…
Virginia Stark Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, in a real place and not too long ago, there was a little girl who was very unhappy. This girl didn’t have any real reason for being so unhappy. In her words, she was riddled with ‘first world problems’. That was one of…
Following an unforseen copyright issue regarding one of our short stories, we are pleased to announce that StarkLight Press is able to release its second short story compendium on July 15! StarkLight Volume 2, featuring stories by Will Norton, Virginia Carraway, Robert Marquiss, Hal Friesen and more will be available on ebook and in print…
Well, here it is- StarkLight Short Story Contest #3! Congratulations to Will Norton, a perennial StarkLight favorite, Hal Friesen of AstroHal fame, Robert Marquiss and all the rest of our second contest winners! Here are our standard rules- and let it be known that previous winners may indeed submit fresh stories for submission. …
We are pleased to announce that our first volume of StarkLight Short Stories has sold its entire 100 copy run! Featuring the winners of our first short story contest back in 2013, StarkLight Volume One has ten stories of chilling mystery, science fiction and fantasy. StarkLight Volume One, second printing, will be available the third…
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Thanks to all of our contributors to StarkLight Press Summer Madness Short Story Contest! We more than doubled our contributors this time around- thanks to all of you for your fascinating fiction. Our winners will be contacted via email by May 5th- their names will also be posted here on the StarkLight Press home page…
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“Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.” – George R. R. Martin. In Tolkien’s account of the War of the Ring, Gandalf was sent back to Middle Earth by the Valar, or…
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Here it is, folks, the first of three parts of Wodin Whatthehel’s heroic deeds during the El Noor Incident! This is a segment of An Incident in El Noor, which is the first complete accounting of the exploits of Detach Detachment during the El Noor conflict. By Tony Stark copyright 2014 StarkLight Press The…
StarkLight Press is pleased to announce that our books are now offered at Bill’s News and Confectionery in Dawson Creek, B.C. A heritage business, Bill’s has been a fixture of the downtown core since 1949. It is well known in the region for offering a wide selection of Canadian fiction and non-fiction titles and boasts…
Looking around the internet, I see there are a plethora of examples of how the light-hearted, glossy, soundbyte tendencies of our culture have intruded on stories that form the backbone of our cultural heritage. Memes and appropriated quotes have become a kind of hieroglyphic language between us, transferred from our devices faster than the speed…