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I am a fiction writer: novels and stories. I have spared you my poetry! Check out the above links to learn about me, my thoughts on my fiction, some of my favourite reading, and where you can find my work online.

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News

March 2008

The Elastic Press announces
the Cornwall launch of Jai Clare’s new collection of short stories,
"The Cusp of Something"

Thursday 20 March
7.00 pm
Waterstone’s Bookshop
11 – 12 Boscawen Street
Truro
Cost: £2, includes wine and light bites

Jai Clare’s stories are filled with the disaffected, those who kick against their everyday lives, who crave the mystic when seeking their spirituality, and who are desperate to be alone as much as they are desperate to be with someone. Whether in North Africa, Greece, or Britain her characters’ concerns remain the same. To find meaning in the universal and the personal, through transient sex or emotional depth. All told with a fluid intensity of prose that cuts to the heart of them, lays them bare to misfortune and fortune, and stands them waiting on the brink of discovery.

"Jai Clare is a courageously inventive writer whose short pieces are clever, ambitious, delightful and always surprising." – Jim Crace, author of The Pesthouse.

"Jai Clare has understood the secret of the short story: lyricism, brevity, consequentiality. She brings to her writing an easy and deep-reaching grasp of character and a lovely open eroticism. She is a serious writer whom we are lucky to have." - Sebastian Barker, editor of London Magazine.

January 2008

Lovely Review of Cusp by Jim Murdoch.

Finally learnt which of my stories had honourable mention in Dave Eggers' The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 - Sweetest Skin - originally published in Consumed anthology. A nice honour.

December 2007

Story The Islands of the Blessed published in Fiction International
the only literary journal in the United States emphasizing formal innovation and progressive politics

28 October 2007

"The Cusp Of Something" by Jai Clare
Release date: 1 November 2007

He stands at the threshold, feeling on the cusp of something and yet half empty and dizzy with visions and aromas. He feels solid and yet capable of flight. Hard and flimsy. There’s something here, there’s something he needs to know, to see. He steps forward.

Available to order in paperback from: Elastic Press | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.com
A limited run of hardback editions are available from Elastic Press.

"The Cusp Of Something" Launch Party:

Sunday, November 4, 2007
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Filthy McNasty's Whiskey Cafe
68 Amwell Street
London
United Kingdom

All are welcome!

26 October 2007

New website launched!