Harmonious Hearts 2016 - Stories from the Young Author Challenge - Ames, Arbour

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Résumé :
Harmony Ink Press is delighted and honored to showcase the short fiction of some of the best up-and-coming authors working in the LGBT genre. The stories in this third volume of Harmonious Hearts represent the winners of our Young Author Challenge-a group of talented writers between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one. The stories in this anthology are as diverse as their creators and range from the speculative to snapshots of everyday life for people growing up in a society in flux. They confront many issues facing young adults, and they celebrate the joys of this sometimes rocky period of transition: friendship, loyalty, first love, and learning to feel comfortable in one's own skin. These experiences are universal, and thanks to the courage and talent of authors such as these, young people of all gender identities, expressions, and orientations are starting to see themselves included. Everyone deserves a story that speaks to them, and in these pages, they'll find that story. Dani Anderson-To Lauren Nick Anthony-Scrapyard Sunsets Hilda Friday-A Progression of Love Arbour Ames-You Saw Blue Chloe Smith-Plenty of Fish Caleb Andrews-I Am Logan Sarah Caulfield-Make Mad the Guilty Xoe Juliani-Loving You Through the Years Irene Grant-Jordan and A.J. Latitude Brown-Equinox Julia Dupuis-Let No Sin Rule Over Me Anika Olivo-Melodimensional Frisk Gillespie-Ten Words

Biographie:
she also enjoys sewing and drawing as well as wasting hours on video games and messing with makeup. She aspires to become a lot of things, from a political activist to an author and artist to a YouTuber and a short film writer/director (but only as an informal hobby!).

When not focusing on her plethora of self-driven hobbies, she spends her time dealing with the trials and tribulations of a high school student, passionately debating in the Junior State of America, and teaching sex-ed classes as a peer educator through Planned Parenthood. New interests and goals find her almost every day, and who is she to deny them?

Chloe Smith is a disabled and autistic writer and poet from the United Kingdom. She is a Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2015, and her poetry has been published in The Honest Ulsterman, TERSE Journal, The Cabinet of Heed, Ghost City Review, and more. Her flash fiction has been published in Ellipsis Zine, TRAIN, Three Drops from a Cauldron, and The Ginger Collect. Her first ever short story, Plenty of Fish, was published by Harmony Ink Press in the Harmonious Hearts 2016 anthology, and her short story 143 was also published by Harmony Ink Press in the Harmonious Hearts 2018 anthology.

She's wanted to be a writer ever since she knew books existed, especially when she found out that writing those books could be an actual job. She's still working on getting that status of published author and poet with her own books and poetry collections on the shelves, but thinks that as long as there are people out there who will read her work (and occasionally even like it), then she's most of the way there.

Chloe lives in England with her family, who she loves very much. If she's not writing, then she's probably thinking up a new story idea, rewatching episodes of Doctor Who, or drinking tea (as long as it's decaf).

Twitter: @ch1oewrites

Website: chloesmithwrites.wordpress.com