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Elizabeth Hopkinson is from West Yorkshire, home of the Brontës, Anne Lister and the Cottingley Fairies. She has had over 80 short stories, fairy tales and flash fictions published in the likes of Dancing with Mr Darcy, The Forgotten & the Fantastical, Mslexia, Interzone and Strange Horizons. Her stories have been performed in the Solstice Shorts Festival and by Liars’ League. Elizabeth herself has appeared at Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe, and is a regular at Bradford Brick Box Room’s open mic. She was the winner of the James White Award, Fairytalez best gender-swap fairy tale, and the Liars’ League/National Gallery Inspiration contest, as well as being a runner-up in several other contests. She has crowdfunded a collection of Asexual Fairy Tales, which came out from SilverWood Books in 2019. She has spent much of the past decade working on a trilogy about a castrato and a bird-charmer in C18th Italy. Elizabeth is married with one grown-up daughter. She identifies as asexual, and is committed to asexual rights.

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Dragonsight

Updated Nov 9, 2020 · 4,258 words (16 minutes) · 40 views

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Everyone in Littletown is sick of the Giant Sand Witch, the timid Little Wizard most of all. Perhaps the Dragon on the hill has some helpful advice?

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Up Close View of Glass Door Knob, Circa 1931

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Coffee and the Kobold

Published Sep 14, 2020 · 2,480 words (10 minutes) · 1 like · 187 views

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An old soldier meets a kobold who gives him the gift of coffee smelling in Frederick the Great’s Berlin. On one condition...

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Im an aspiring photographer form the Philippines. My focus is more of food and styled food. I started as a food stylist for local companies. I get inspired with the beauty of moody tones whether its in food or landscape.

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Chasing Unicorns

Published Aug 18, 2020 · 1,570 words (6 minutes) · 219 views

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It's 1949 and Agnes has come to Swanwick to document the unicorn migration, a once-in-a-century occurence. But can she face it without her paranaturalist husband Hedley, lost in the War? This story was originally commissioned in memory of Katy Clarke, former vice-chariman of Swanwick Writers' Summer School.

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The Thirteenth King

Published Apr 4, 2020 · 2,410 words (9 minutes)

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There is a kind of truth in everything. Even a fairy tale about a boy with twelve books in his back pocket who somehow ends up becoming king of the most beige-brown city imaginable.

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Mr Spink Learns to Fly

Published Apr 4, 2020 · 2,625 words (10 minutes) · 222 views

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The owner of an antique bookshop discovers love and adventure when it turns out the carpet in his shop is the magic, flying kind, infused with the personality of a 16th century Persian nobleman.

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Joseph Campbell’s book, Myths to Live By (1972), original edition from Viking Press. The reading process was splendid; among the smokey woods and carpets of my home back in Brighton, England. I personally take delight in the ambience of this photo, its mystery and aliveness.

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Tam-lin

Published Mar 10, 2020 · 1,543 words (6 minutes) · 431 views

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My retelling of the Scottish ballad about a brave girl who risks all to rescue the knight she loves from entrhallment to the Fairy Queen.

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We went to Germany for one day to explore some famous instagram photo spots. The first stop was Burg Eltz during sunrise. With no tourists there yet and this amazing fog covering the castle it was like a fairytale.

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Cat Flowers

Published Feb 6, 2020 · 328 words (2 minutes) · 303 views

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Did you know that cats can do magic? Mine can. A brief and magical story inspired by my cat, Sootica.

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Enter the Komodo

Published Jan 6, 2020 · 3,387 words (13 minutes)

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Antimony needs a man like the Academy of Lagado needs a paper bicycle. As its new Chancellor, she is determined to bring the Swiftian institution into the modern world. So, why has a Komodo dragon arrived on her doorstep with a sign saying Marry Me around its neck? And how can she get rid of it? A lightheated story inspired by Gulliver's Travels.

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