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Samuel Best

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Born

in Edinburgh

Website

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Fiction, Horror, Thriller

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February 2014

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Samuel Best's first novel, Shop Front, was published by Fledgling Press and described as "engaging, moving and fulfilling" and "genuinely shocking".

He has published a number of short stories in the UK, America, and Europe - most recently with Ghost Orchid Press, The Wild Hunt, and Firewords - and he founded Octavius Magazine before running Aloe during the first COVID lockdown.

When he is not writing he teaches English in the east end of Glasgow.

You can find him haunting social media @storiesbysamuel. ...more

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Alight Here

Falkirk may be on the map due to engineering innovations such as the Falkirk Wheel and the iconic Kelpies sculpture but the town’s contribution to our nation’s literature has so far been overlooked.

Until now.

That rumbling you hear in Central Scotland is Cargo Publishing's latest offering, Alight Here: An Anthology of Falkirk Writing . Edited by Hallglen boy Alan Bissett, the collection fea Read more of this blog post »

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