The launch of Patches of Light: Short Stories from the
Cheshire Prize for Literature was held at the University of Chester’s
Queen’s Park campus on July 6. Authors were presented with a copy of the
anthology by the High Sheriff of Chester, Kathy Cowell OBE DL. Selections from
the stories were read out to an audience.
The
editor, Dr Ian Seed, said that the stories of this collection ‘seek
to reflect and explore the hopes, dreams, joys, fears and frailties that are
common to us all, but which are revealed differently in each life. They may
offer us only glimpses, but each glimpse will leave us changed in some way.
Like shifting patches of light on water, they invite us to stop and look, to
linger for a brief space of time, to take away something we felt we always
knew, but didn’t know that we knew before.’
