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Meet the editors of ASP Abergavenny Small Press - the independent publisher with the personal touch.
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Dogs Darnborough
Editor in Chief
Fiction editor
Even the impossible is possible! It just takes time, dedication and perseverance.
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I've had an eclectic life to date, I was the Literature editor for one of the first online magazines set up in the early '90's. I am a published writer, retired counsellor and, once upon a time trained to be a forensic archaeologist, but life took me down a different path.
Poetry editor
Danielle Farrington
Art editor
My name is Dan Farrington, I am a local artist based in Abergavenny. My preferred medium is prismacolour coloured pencils; and photorealism is what I like to do best.
The colours of the hills and the skies in the surrounding area are where I take my inspiration from; always ending up on the darker side of the rainbow.
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Sharif Gemie
Reader & In-house author
Sharif is a retired Professor of History. He was a university lecturer for 32 years. Originally a historian of modern Europe, he grew interested in the histories of marginalized and minority peoples in Europe. He wrote (or co-wrote) eight non-fiction works, and countless academic articles. His most important books include: Women and Schooling: Gender, Authority and Identity in the Female Schooling Sector, France, 1815-1914 (Keele University Press, 1995); Galicia: A Concise History (Cardiff: UWP, 2006); French Muslims: New Voices in Contemporary France (Cardiff: UWP, 2010); Outcast Europe: Refugees and Relief Workers in an Age of Total War, 1936-48 (London: Continuum, 2011), co-authored with Fiona Reid and Laure Humbert; and The Hippy Trail: A History (1957—88) (Manchester University Press, 2017), co-authored with Brian Ireland.
After retirement, he turned to writing fiction. To date, he has published twelve short stories and flash fictions, including:
‘A Visitor,’ in Carmel Mawle (ed), DoveTales: an International Journal of the Arts (2018), pp. 139—51.
‘The Map and the Migrant,’ in Emma Larking (ed), We Refugees (Raleigh, North Carolina: Pact Press 2019), pp. 69—73.
‘Leonard and the Mad Girl’, Magazine of History and Fiction 1:4 (Winter 2019) https://magazineoftheoldwest.neocities.org/leonardomadgirl.html
‘Helping the People Help Themselves’, Storgy (https://storgy.com/2020/04/27/helping-the-people-help-themselves-by-sharif-gemie/)
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The Displaced is now available to buy from the ASP shop.
If you wish to know more about Sharif visit him at his website:
Jack T. Canis
Reader & In-house author
Jack has had an eclectic career spanning archaeology, self-employment as an armourer, a person centred counsellor and a nanny recruiter! He has been published in a number of countries and magazines incl. Teleport magazine, Purple Wall Stories (Honourable mention), Datura, Sledgehammer, Potato Soup Journal & incl in two anthologies published by Monnath Books & one anthology by Purple Wall Stories. Recently longlisted in the Bridport Flash Fiction Competition (2021).
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His debut novel, 'Ordinary World' is available from:
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https://books2read.com/OrdinaryWorld2023
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He has two short story collections out. One can be found in the ASP shop: 'Horrific Tales for a Horrific Year' (2022)
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The second, '#Rehashed':
https://books2read.com/Rehashedjtc (2023)
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Twitter: @jackcanis