Released 31st July, 2024 // 66 pages // 978-1-916938-36-6 // RRP £11.99
 
To Melt the Stars is a collection of essays looking at love at first conversation, queerness, weird wedding days, motherhood, romance, baby loss, and intergenerational trauma, among other themes. Anna Vaught’s essays address dark and difficult themes, and do so without holding back, but that darkness is enlivened by a rhythm and buoyancy of language. These essays are rich in allusion, playful, and yet deeply personal, exploring love and loss in intimate ways.
 
ABOUT Anna Vaught:
Anna Vaught is an English teacher, Creative Writing mentor, teacher, editor and author of several books. Shorter and multi-genre works are widely published in journals, magazines, anthologies and the national press and she has been a columnist for Mslexia and The Bookseller. Passionate about access and inclusivity in The Arts, she has curated the Curae prize for writer-carers. Anna is currently completing a PhD by Published Works on magical realism and trauma at York St John University.