Fall 2024 Fiction & Non fiction Rights Guide

- 1 6 - - F I C T I O N - Maria Xilouri (b. 1983) is the author of three novels: Rewind (2009), How The World Ends (2012) and The Calligrapher’s Night-shift (2015). How The World Ends won the 2013 Athens Prize for Literature; The Calligrapher’s Night-shift was shortlisted for the 2017 EUPL. Her translations include David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (winner of the 2015 Hellenic American Union Translation Award), Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life , and Paul Auster’s 4321 . Stone Ships is her first book of short stories. Stone ships Maria Xilouri In certain places, people would surround graves with stones in the shape of ships to ferry the dead to the afterlife; these stone ships served as places of both ritual and remembrance. The stories of this book are stone ships themselves: stories of islands, whether literal or figurative, on seas fictional and real. Stories of those who die, and those who are left behind, remembering, in “A Nekyia in reverse”. Pages 168 March 2021 Spyros Kiosses is assistant professor of Literary Theory and Creative Writing at the Department of Language & Intercultural Studies, University of Thessaly. He’s written five books, and has contributed scientific and critical columns as well as literary pieces to newspapers and magazines. The first rains Got a cig? Pages 176 May 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 Anagnostis Magazine Literary Award Pages 160 March 2024 Late 70s, early 80s: In this transitional historical period, Tasos is growing up in a workers’ neighborhood of a small city. His autofiction brings the era to life, as well as the plexus of family relations, that can be supporting as a safety net, or at times suffocating and inescapable as a spider’s web. Distant aunts, neighbours, street vendors, passengers, children, lumpen men, stray dogs: secondary characters who enjoy the spotlight for a couple of minutes, almost as much as each story lasts. “Micro-stories” – the writer describes these as “little tales for the little characters of the world”, inviting the readership to take a leap from our own little lives into the page, while lighting a cigarette.