Our Story
We don't look for perfect stories that could lull anyone to sleep.
We are the kind of people who return from our walks on the beach with disturbing dialogues ringing in our ears.
Plots waiting to be explored hover around us in our bus/train journeys.
Crowded streets greet us with eternal sound waves, dead cells flying past us, and scents of all kinds from everywhere - atmospheric details of our very existence.
Mountains, streams and birdsong help us keep down the temperature of our stories for a while, before letting it rise to unknown limits.
Clouds embrace our dampened spirits as our flights disintegrate them, but they manage to whisper in our ears things that are going to be the stories we will be.
Our first venture, Strands Four Elements Short Fiction Anthology series, is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances, but our small, dedicated team members are working on it. Our aim is to get two print anthologies of short fiction published and to continue with the Four Elements short fiction competitions once we are all safe and in a healthy environment to meet the work demands.
The top winners in our short fiction competition series are published in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts and given cash awards. We have also started an International Flash Fiction Competition that's conducted six times a year and offers the winners cash awards and online publication in Strands Lit Sphere. Please do check our competitions page to see all the winning stories and for more information regarding our work in progress.
Strands is an independent group of artists and writers from across the world. You can see some of our work in the Lit Sphere section.
More news on our print publications will be announced here in the coming days. We hope to have a limited number of anthologies and chapbooks of high quality and gradually move on to full length books by single authors in the coming years.
We are the kind of people who return from our walks on the beach with disturbing dialogues ringing in our ears.
Plots waiting to be explored hover around us in our bus/train journeys.
Crowded streets greet us with eternal sound waves, dead cells flying past us, and scents of all kinds from everywhere - atmospheric details of our very existence.
Mountains, streams and birdsong help us keep down the temperature of our stories for a while, before letting it rise to unknown limits.
Clouds embrace our dampened spirits as our flights disintegrate them, but they manage to whisper in our ears things that are going to be the stories we will be.
Our first venture, Strands Four Elements Short Fiction Anthology series, is delayed due to unforeseen circumstances, but our small, dedicated team members are working on it. Our aim is to get two print anthologies of short fiction published and to continue with the Four Elements short fiction competitions once we are all safe and in a healthy environment to meet the work demands.
The top winners in our short fiction competition series are published in Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts and given cash awards. We have also started an International Flash Fiction Competition that's conducted six times a year and offers the winners cash awards and online publication in Strands Lit Sphere. Please do check our competitions page to see all the winning stories and for more information regarding our work in progress.
Strands is an independent group of artists and writers from across the world. You can see some of our work in the Lit Sphere section.
More news on our print publications will be announced here in the coming days. We hope to have a limited number of anthologies and chapbooks of high quality and gradually move on to full length books by single authors in the coming years.
