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08/06/2024

Wishing everyone a Happy Pride Month with one of our Sonder copies! 🌈We hope you are all feeling seen and loved as you move through your full and beautiful lives. All our love from Stryvling Press!

05/06/2024

We are excited to finally announce the date of our Sonder Book Launch! 🥳The event will be held in Made in Stirling in the city centre on the 13th of June, from 7 to 9 pm.

Come join our press team and authors for a Writers Panel: our authors will be answering your questions and reading excerpts from their short stories! The Book Launch will close with a signing session for your shiny new copies of Sonder.

27/05/2024

Happy Monday! 🌟We are finally introducing the last one of our authors, Utku.

Utku’s piece, “A Decadent Company”, will take you on a haunting post-apocalyptic journey through desolated streets, following a man trying to escape the memories of a forgotten past.

Utku is a short fiction writer from Istanbul. He has a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature. His writings often focus on trying to make sense of the emotions that are embedded in his subconscious mind, believing that almost any work of fiction can give context to the vague thoughts that are detached from reality and floating in the void of the mind ever discontentedly. To that extent, he plans to keep on writing until the last restless thought he has finds a new plane of existence in the form of a story.

24/05/2024

Happy Friday everyone! 🌹Today we are happy to introduce you to Marion, one of Sonder’s authors.

Marion’s poems, “Blankets”, “Sofa” and “Saturday Night Treat”, touch on the attachments to objects as symbols of our attachment to people. They will make you reflect on love, loss, and the meaning of being human.

Marion graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2013 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Photography. Since then, she has been creating artists’ books and teaching a variety of bookbinding workshops. She makes and sells a range of notebooks and sketchbooks influenced by nature and her love of gardening, but is tired of making blank books. Studying for the MLitt, Marion hopes she now has something to write in them!

You can find her on Instagram at .archibald

22/05/2024

It’s that time of the week again!🔥 Today we meet Ewan, one of our writers.

Ewan’s piece, “The Art of Lost Corners”, immerses the reader in a cosy camping trip filled with poetry and mythical beauty.

Ewan, an English & Journalism graduate, considers himself a poet but rarely proves it. After various attempts at different jobs, and hating them all, Ewan has compiled a portfolio of stories and novels that revolve around a wandering poet sorcerer. Raised in Perthshire, with a few years in Japan, Ewan now oversees three bars, cycles a lot, and plays DND on Tuesdays.

You can find him on Instagram at

20/05/2024

Happy Monday!✨ Today we’re introducing Amanda, one of Sonder’s authors.

Amanda’s piece, “Mayfield’s Rage”, is the harrowing tale of one witch family’s struggle to protect what is dear to them. Her short story is visceral and gut wrenching.

Amanda is a writer from rural Montana by way of Colorado. She is currently obtaining her Master’s Degree in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling in Scotland. With a background in marketing and communications, she decided to turn her hobby of writing into a craft. Embracing the weird, she writes realistic fantasy and historical fiction with some poetry mixed in.

You can find her on Instagram at

17/05/2024

Hello everyone! 🌞Today we want you to meet another one of our authors, Aubrey.

Aubrey’s piece, “Hear Me in the Hall of Gods”, will transport you to ancient times, offering a new perspective on Roman mythology and Echo’s tragic story.

In 2017, Aubrey quit her job managing restaurants in Richmond, Virginia and finally tossed in the dishrag. The time she spent in the "real world" helped her rediscover an innate passion for character-driven storytelling. However, it took a quarter-life existential crisis and raw oysters to take that passion seriously. With a focus in both Writing and Filmmaking during her undergrad, Aubrey’s academic aspirations expand to her plan of teaching in higher academia. She is currently aspiring toward a PhD in Creative Writing. Her writing work focuses on dark historical and mythological women’s fiction.

You can find her on her website, www.aubreyaloi.com.

15/05/2024

Get your hands on Stryvling’s past anthologies before the release of Sonder in June! 🌟

13/05/2024

It’s that time of the week again!🦋 Today we meet Jodie, one of the writers for this year’s anthology.

Jodie’s short story, “Flâneuse of the Second City”, will transport you to the wonders of the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition.

Jodie graduated from the University of Stirling in 2023 with a combined degree in History and Law. Her experience with creative writing began as a personal hobby. However, she has recently incorporated this interest into her historical research project under the MRes Humanities course at Stirling. Jodie’s passion for fun, creativity, culture and self-reflection shine through in her writing and research.

10/05/2024

Happy Friday everyone! 🍁Today we want to introduce you to Isaac, one of our authors.

Isaac’s piece, “Short Stories About Life: Adam”, will take you on a conversation with Death itself, in order to explore and understand the true meaning of life.

Isaac graduated from Stirling University with a Bachelor's Degree in Digital Media in 2023. He specialized in filmmaking during his Dissertation Project for which he wrote and directed a short film. With his previous experience of creative writing - including a blog post for Children in Scotland's 'Living Museums' Project - he decided to pursue this passion further through Stirling's Creative Writing Masters course, where he hopes to develop his creative work into a vocation.

You can find him on Instagram at

08/05/2024

Hello everyone!🐞It’s time to introduce another one of our authors, Haesel.

Haesel’s piece, “The One Below the Soil”, will take you on a trippy university journey, making you question your own understanding of reality.

Haesel is a Weird Fiction writer from Argyll on the West Coast of Scotland. She has a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Psychology, and is now working on a MLitt in Creative Writing. She has helped run the Creative Writing Society at the University for 4 years now and is the current President. She loves writing in most genres, particularly speculative fiction, and even dabbles in poetry from time to time. Outside of writing she spends her time playing D&D or video games. She also likes arts and crafts like painting or crocheting.

07/05/2024

After much anticipation, we are finally revealing the cover of Stryvling's 2024 anthology!🌚

We are happy to show you the great work that our designer Amie put in, and share our beautiful Sonder cover with you all.

Sonder will be available for purchase in June 2024. Thank you so much to everyone that attended our Cover Reveal Pub Quiz, and we can't wait for you to all have Sonder in your hands!

06/05/2024

Happy Pub Quiz day everyone! 🎉Are you ready for our next author introduction? Today we meet Lorraine.

Lorraine’s collection of three beautiful stories, “Birth”, “Ashram”, and “Marie”, explores the complex emotions of life, from birth to transformative experiences and surprising encounters.

Lorraine is a writer of short stories. She lives in the beautiful countryside of Stirlingshire and enjoys crafting tales of the everyday and the human condition.

03/05/2024

Happy Friday everyone, the Cover Reveal is coming soon! ✨Today we are introducing our second author, Guadalupe, known to us as “Lu”.

Lu’s wonderfully eerie gothic tale, “One. Two. Three”, follows a young pilgrim who stumbles upon a tormented soul locked deep inside a mausoleum.

Guadalupe, also known as "Lu", is a writer who was born in Extremadura, Spain. Her mother taught her how to write when she was just three years old, and she has been writing ever since. In 2019, she moved to Scotland where she graduated with a Bachelor of Honors in English Studies and Journalism Studies from the University of Stirling. She is currently pursuing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the same university. Lu is fluent in four languages and has edited scripts for the drama club Molamanta Teatro. She also won the Best Extremena Actress Award in 2019. Lu writes both fantasy and romance, and in her free time, she enjoys taking pictures for her Instagram, indulging in cheese and wine, and fangirling over Emily Henry's books.

You can find her on Instagram at

02/05/2024

Tickets for the Cover Reveal Pub Quiz at are on sale on our website and we will be in the University of Stirling atrium from 9-5pm TODAY & TOMORROW! So come say hello and get your ticket to the quiz! 😘

01/05/2024

*drum roll please* 🥁
Today we are introducing the first author contributing to Sonder, Ashley!

Ashley’s short story "Wysteria Woods" will take you on a fantastical journey of self-discovery in an enchanted forest, and we can’t wait for you to read it.

Born and raised in the harbour town of Irvine, Ashley’s work invites people to escape into her different fantasy worlds. Writing has been a comfort for her for many years and an escape from small-town life. Her work may include some unique spellings, but her worlds and characters will enrapture your mind so you won’t notice. Against all odds, she completed her undergrad at Stirling, and she is now studying Creative Writing at the Master's level; she is working on honing her skills to finish a story centered around people-watching, which she started as an undergrad, and eventually develop a fun fantasy young-adult series.

29/04/2024

Let’s take a moment to appreciate Stirling’s beautiful flowering trees and Stryvling’s first publication, Inklings! 🌸

23/04/2024

Come join the Stryvling Press team for our Cover Reveal Pub Quiz! ✨

Mark your calendars for Monday, May 6, from 9 to11pm. It will be held in Slanj-A-Va!
Test your knowledge to win one of our many prizes!

Tickets will be sold in the University Atrium on 2nd and 3rd of May from 9 to 5pm, and available for purchase on the university online shop. Hope to see you there!

Single person ticket: https://shop.stir.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculties/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/cover-reveal-pub-quiz-single
Group: https://shop.stir.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculties/faculty-of-arts-and-humanities/cover-reveal-pub-quiz-group

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