The Map Waits by Sharon Telfer

We’re delighted to announce Reflex Press will be publishing The Map Waits, a collection of flash fiction by Sharon Telfer.

The forty-two flash fictions in this collection have storytelling at their heart, explore what it means to live authentically, and offer catches of lesser-heard voices. They resonate – obliquely – with abiding issues of war, empire, injustice, repression, personal emancipation and self-discovery, as well as with urgent contemporary concerns like climate change and Brexit.

The Map Waits will be published in summer 2021. Subscribe to our email newsletter for preorder information and subscriber discounts.

About the author

Sharon Telfer grew up on Teesside and now lives in East Yorkshire, where she works as a freelance editor. She has won the Bath Flash Fiction Award twice, most recently in February 2020. She has also won the Reflex Flash Fiction Prize (June 2018). Her flash fiction has been selected for the 2019 and 2020 ‘BIFFY50’ lists, for Best Microfiction 2019 and for National Flash Fiction Day anthologies. She was awarded the New Writing North/Word Factory Northern Short Story Apprentice in 2018 and placed second in the Bath Short Story Award 2020. Her work has been selected for the Test Signal anthology of the best contemporary Northern writing, published by Dead Ink Books and Bloomsbury in 2021. She is a founding editor at FlashBack Fiction, an online lit mag showcasing historical flash fiction. She tweets @sharontelfer.