This is an anthology of work from the 2010 ShedFest (probably the world’s smallest literary festival) Fourteen poets, writers and slammers performed at this year’s ShedFest, held in a shed in a garden in St Andrews, Bristol. Each writer had a five minute slot to perform their work. The shed was used as a stage while the audience was packed onto the patio. 

Writers featured in the anthology include:

Flash fiction writer Tania Hershman – author of The White Road and Other Stories (Salt Publishing)

Bristol Slam Poet Rosemary Dun

Bristol-based crime writer Gerry O’Donovan – author of The Priest, (Little Brown)

Historian and fiction writer Mike Manson – author of Where’s My Money? (Tangent Books)

Jari Moate, Bristol-based author of Paradise Now (Indepenpress)

‘Writing can be a solitary pursuit,’ says ShedFest organiser Mike Manson. ‘ShedFest was an opportunity for local authors to get together and share their work. We laughed, we cried, we were even a little bit scared.’ 

All profits from sales of the ShedFest anthology will be donated to the Pakistan Flood Appeal.