Creative Writing Book Launch & Dramatic Reading
Words by Anthology Editors: Kata Rawlings, Kate Mandalov, Katie Stedman and Amber Foxwell
BOOK LAUNCH! ARCANUM: MYTHS, MYSTERIES AND MISHAPSAND MISHAPSWhere: The Tavern, Flinders University, Bedford ParkPark
When: 21st NOVEMBER 2023 at 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Join us for a book launch and dramatic performance of the readings for the 2023 creative writing anthology Arcanum: Myth, Mystery and Mayhem. Published by Glimmer Press, this anthology is a collection of thirteen tantalising tales inspired by the Tarot.
Watch these short stories come to life with readings from Flinders Drama students in this intimate setting in The Tavern.
Don’t miss out!
At this event you’ll get the chance to meet the amazing authors behind ARCANUM and pre-order the book.
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Arcanum: The Flinders University 2022 Class Creative Writing Anthology
Flinders University’s creative writing program provides students with the unique opportunity to work together with Glimmer Press to publish an anthology of short stories at the end of their third year.
The 2022 cohort has created an anthology titled Arcanum, Tales of Myths Mystery and Mishaps.
Arcanum is the result of combining a room of creative minds with the support of their teachers and mentors.
During the semester we chose a theme that all the stories had to incorporate and spent time workshopping our stories as a group and individually.
We discussed many themes that would suit our favoured genres, and in the end felt that the theme Tarot would be best suited at incorporating and showing all of our different strengths and potential.
Each story has been inspired by a Major Arcana card, sometimes very obviously and other times more subtly. When putting our indivdual works together, we grouped the stories into suits that the cards themes would fit into, these being Wands, Cups, Swords, and Pentacles. All of the stories were completed by the end of the semester last year in early November. It was then time to make these individual stories into a book.
A team of editors, appointed from the original anthology team, began to comb through every story, making edits, big and small. The editors worked closely with Lynette Washington at Glimmer Press to make these edits to the original stories and get them into the best condition before publishing!
EDITORIAL NOTE: This article has been reuploaded and was originally published in 2023.