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About Me
- Elizabeth Baines
- Writer of prose fiction and plays for radio and stage. My novella Too Many Magpies and my collection of short stories, Balancing on the Edge of the World are published by Salt. Salt also recently reissued my short novel The Birth Machine.
Podcast. Extract from Too Many Magpies
Extract from story 'The Shooting Script'
Extract from The Birth Machine
The stories behind the stories in Balancing
Stories by me on the web
- A Glossary of Bread (on East of the Web)
- Compass and Torch (on East of the Web)
- Italian translation of A Glossary of Bread (Buran magazine)
- Possibility (in Horizon Review 1)
- The Choice Chamber (in Horizon Review 2)
- Used to Be (in Carve Magazine; third prizewinner of the Raymond Carver Competition 2008)
- What Do You Do If (in Horizon Review 4)
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