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Tales from Space 3 Short Story Contest

February 21, 2022March 15, 2022 admin 1 Comment

Announcing the latest (possibly greatest!) Tales from Space short story contest! Now’s your chance to write in the hugely popular, dynamic, collaborative world of the Galactic Association of Globes and Asteroids (GAGA), and to tell your story with your favorite characters in Tales from Space. We are accepting applications staring March 1, 2022 – closing…

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SLP Author Interview Today

March 18, 2021 admin No Comments

Join StarkLight Press author and internet celebrity Virginia Carraway Stark as she chats with Zoe Duff-Hawksworthweeds on Zoe’s program Follow Your Bliss, today on twitch.tv. Be among the first to hear about StarkLight Press’s new short story contests and our latest publication release dates world premiere on Follow Your Bliss this afternoon at 6:30 PDT….

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Words from the River Lands Amended Release Date

September 17, 2020 admin 1 Comment

Due to an unfortunate failure on the part of a local organization to provide agreed-upon funding support, the Words from the River Lands anthology has been delayed, and its prize structure altered. While it was intended for the Enderby & District Chamber of Commerce to provide funds to allow local organizations such as the Community…

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Short Story Anthology Annoucement

October 7, 2019 admin No Comments

With the winter holidays around the corner, we are proud to announce a good-old fashioned holiday anthology. I mean, very old-fashioned: we are seeking stories about traditional pagan themes (please, no Krampus, we’re full up with Krampus!) If you have story ideas for ancient holiday traditions (or ancient traditions that might intersect with fireworks against…

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StarkLight 5 Winners!

June 10, 2017 admin No Comments

We are pleased to announce that the winners of our latest, StarkLight contest have been chosen! This well-known anthology features an array of speculative fiction from authors around the world- including first time authors with special merit. The winners are: Chris Scott Sergio Palumbo Jason Pere Neri Kemraj Will Norton Van Fleming L.E. Caine Tara…

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StarkLight 5 Contest is Now Closed

March 3, 2017 admin No Comments

Thanks to our many international contributors to our latest short story contest!

We have had a larger submission pool than previous anthologies, and for that we send out our sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to contribute to our contest.

As our submission pool is quite sizable, look for responses to your work sometime in early April.We will be contacting submittors by April 15th as to the status of their submissions.

We endeavor to have StarkLight Volume 5 available for mid July, and will be posting information about our next short story contests soon!

If you’re eager to contribute other tales, check out our Steam in the Gears short story contest as well as our other contests on our page, listed to the left of this blog.

Thanks again to all our contributors- this looks like a chilling, exciting anthology!

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Announcing StarkLight 5 Short Story Contest

August 21, 2016 admin No Comments

It’s here- that moment you’ve all been waiting for-

The StarkLight Volume 5 Short Story Contest!

That’s right, now you can send in your original short stories to our latest edition of StarkLight Anthology! Be it horror, or fantasy, science fiction, suspense or speculative fiction, send us your original piece before Feb 28, 2017, for a chance to win a coveted spot in one of the most talked-about anthologies in North America.

You can have a look at our submission guidelines here:

Official Short Story Contest Rules

Be sure to like us on facebook at www.facebook.com/StarkLight-Press/ to hear updates about this contest, as well as other cool short story and poem opportunites we have for authors this year.

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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Blue Moon Season Release Date!

August 13, 2016 admin 1 Comment

blue moon season front cover

Our first were-themed anthology is set to hit bookshelves in stores across North America on August 21, 2016!

This rollicking read features stories about transformation into anything… wolves, fossas, lamps… this anthology is filled with spine-chilling misadventures of people who tangled with the light of the full moon, and the monsters that emerge from it.

Featuring a bevvy of new authors, as well as StarkLight Press favorites, Blue Moon Season is perhaps our most horrifying, entertaining anthology to date!

Check into StarkLight Press all this week for interviews with our winning authors, including:

Piper Tadwell Van Fleming

Mod Welles Will Norton

Tara O’Neill Jeren Nethers

Alfie Elkins Virginia Carraway Stark

Nicholas Vincenzi Leanne Caine

Cathy Illes

and more!

Congratulations to all of our winning authors!

Look for Blue Moon Season Anthology August 21 on Amazon and Scribd, as well as in bookstores in British Columbia, Ohio, Ontario and California!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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The Ginger Mob

June 23, 2016 admin No Comments

The Ginger Mob

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One of the many beautiful pieces of art available for sale during the SPCAC’s Art Walk. The Ginger Mob can be seen this summer at Faking Sanity Bookstore and Cafe in Dawson Creek, B.C.

This classic punk retelling of one of Sherlock Holmes’ best known adventures is not the first foray into the Holmesian genre for Anthony Stark. His original tale, The Case of the Porcelain Doll, appeared in Sleuth Magazine and was nominated for a Spyglass award in 2015. Anthony has compiled an anthology of original and re-told Sherlock Holmes stories for StarkLight Press, featuring tales that elucidate such varied subjects as:

Watson’s time in Afghanistan as a member of the British Army

Holmes’ adventures following his plummet from Reichenbach Falls

A Canadian adventure along the frontier that takes place in the close of the 19^th Century

In addition, three re-tellings of classic Conan Doyle stories are included in this anthology, which is entitled Holmes, Watson and the Baker Street Gate.

Below you can find links to the original Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League, as well as links to Sleuth Magazine and the Wisteria Lodgers, Western Canada’s foremost Sherlock Holmes club.

Read the Original Red-Headed League online for free:

https://sherlock-holm.es/stories/pdf/a4/1-sided/redh.pdf

Canada’s best Mystery Magazine, Sleuth, featuring Tony Stark’s Holmes adventure, The Case of the Porcelain Doll:

https://www.amazon.ca/Sleuth-Magazine-E-Bell-ebook/dp/B018UGTR0E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466641337&sr=8-1&keywords=sleuth+magazine

Wisteria Lodgers of Edmonton

https://sherlockholmesedmonton.wordpress.com/

And finally, and awesome radio broadcast of Sir John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson performing The Red-Headed League:

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Blue Moon Season Contest Winners!

June 15, 2016 admin 1 Comment

An official StarkLight Press congratulations to the winners of our were-being anthology, entitled Blue Moon Season!

This anthology features stories of transmogrification- each one has a transformation into something were… sometimes a wolf, sometimes a giant worm, sometimes a lamp. Each story will be certain to send chills down your spine; the entire anthology will make a gripping summer read!

Here are our winners:

Maria Gonzalez

Van Fleming

Jenn Spaulding

Alfie Elkins

Leanne Caine

Will Norton

Anna Brown

Leo McBride

Nicholas Vincenzi

Piper Tadwell

Cathy Illes

Congratulations to our new StarkLight Press contest winners!

– Tony Stark,

Publisher and CEO,

StarkLight Press.

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