Foreign Encounters: Anthology from Writers Abroad

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I am very excited to share the following Press Release with you: One of my pieces of writing was selected to contribute to Foreign Encounters.

Online writing group Writers Abroad are proud to announce the publication on Wednesday 24^th October 2012 of their new anthology, entitled Foreign Encounters.

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An encounter can be a chance meeting, a planned get-together or even a confrontation.

This collection of stories, non-fiction articles and poems features a variety of foreign encounters: with family, friends, lovers, animals, cultures, or just with one’s own prejudices and preconceptions.

Foreign Encounters is the third anthology published by Writers Abroad, an online group of ex-pat writers.  All the contributors are, or have been, ex-pats living in places around the globe. Contributors live in, and have written about, more than 50 countries in every continent.

Author Julia Gregson, a former ex-pat whose bestselling novel East of the Sun won the Prince Maurice Prize for romantic fiction, has written the foreword.

For more about author Julia Gregson, see her site.

Following a call for submissions, Writers Abroad received 231 contributions of which they selected 95 for the anthology.

They include 16 poems, 38 short stories and 41 non-fiction articles (in which Bex’s story was one of them!)  Since Writers Abroad is a virtual writers’ group, all the work to produce Foreign Encounters has been done online.

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Books Abroad, a charity which coordinates the donation of free books for schools throughout the world,

believing that education is a crucial aspect of human progress. The charity celebrates its 30^thanniversary this year and has supplied over 1,600 schools with desperately-needed books.

For more about Books Abroad, see their site.

Foreign Encounters is available from Lulu  or from Amazon.com here:

To find out more and for a complete list of contributions and authors, please go to the Writers Abroad website .

Note:

Writers Abroad was founded in 2009. It provides an online forum for ex-pat writers to exchange ideas, views and news on writing and to offer support and constructive feedback on each other’s work. Membership numbers are limited but ex-pat writers may apply to join if they are able to support the group’s initiatives and aims. http://www.writersabroad.com/.

I feel very proud to have been one of the authors selected to represent Foreign Encounters and hope you’ll purchase their book.  I know that you’ll agree it’s to a good cause.