Edited by Harry Parkin and Matt Davies 

Kaleidoscope presents a range of shortlisted entries submitted to the 2024 Cheshire Prize for Literature. The themes explored in these submissions are numerous and varied, with the different writers looking at topics such as love, loss, joy, fear, hope, wonder, childhood, ageing, and history. What unites these diverse works is a shared commitment to storytelling. Whether rooted in the everyday or the fantastical, each piece invites the reader to see the world in a different way, and so together they form a kaleidoscopic view of aspects of life that are important to us all.

The Cheshire Prize for Literature was inaugurated in 2003 as the High Sheriff’s Cheshire Prize for Literature. It is administered by the University of Chester. The 2024 competition was for poetry, short fiction, children’s literature, flash fiction and scriptwriting and this anthology contains the entries shortlisted for the prize, including the winners and the runners-up.

Details of the prize are available at www.chester.ac.uk/about/events/cheshire-prize.

Ordering information
Harry Parkin and Matt Davies (Editors), Kaleidoscope: Creative Writing from the Cheshire Prize for Literature 2024, 2025, ISBN 978-1-910481-19-6, £10.99.

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This book will be published on 27 November and any pre-orders will be despatched then.

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