Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions

by Morgan Bell (Editor), Beattie Alvarez, Magdalena Ball

VENGEFUL VEGETATION

Morgan Bell’s Sproutlings is a mesmerising collection of exquisite peculiarities. Welsh and Cornish mythology. Australian campfire tales. Astral and fantastic. The pertinency of forty-three modern authors is punctuated by bites of botanical fiction from Poe, Lawson, Orwell, Lawrence, Wells, Alcott, and Wilde in this tour de force of tiny stories.

Genres: Short Stories, Fantasy

244 pages, Hardcover

First published March 18, 2016

About the author

Morgan Bell is a Australian author of short fiction and visual poetry. Her books include Sniggerless Boundulations, Laissez Faire, and Intersection Control: Collected Works.

She is a qualified technical writer, creative writing teacher, and editor of Sproutlings: A Compendium of Little Fictions. Her first chapbook of visual poetry Idiomatic, For The People was released in 2019. In 2021, Flying Islands published her visual poetry collection Pretend I Don’t Exist.

Morgan enjoys the visual storytelling of film and TV, which is of course a euphamism for being a couch-potato and movie trivia buff.

Morgan currently resides in Port Stephens NSW with her two cats, Romilly and Sansa, and her mother.

Morgan Bell was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1981.