The following is a guest post by Rebecca Burns, author of The Settling Earth. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The expansion of empire in the nineteenth century brought wealth to Britain, and also a number of challenges and opportunities. One such opportunity was emigration – movement into colonies such as Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand…
Author: Rebecca Burns
Rebecca Burns is an award-winning writer of short stories, over thirty of which have been published online or in print. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2011, winner of the Fowey Festival of Words and Music Short Story Competition in 2013 (and runner-up in 2014), and has been profiled as part of the University of Leicester's "Grassroutes Project"-a project that showcases the 50 best transcultural writers in the county.
The Settling Earth is her second collection of short stories. Her debut collection, Catching the Barramundi, was published in 2012 - also by Odyssey Books - and was longlisted for the Edge Hill Award in 2013.