STEPHANIE SHIELDS

GOLD MEDAL WINNER – THE WISHING SHELF AWARDS 2025

https://www.thewsa.co.uk/winners2025/#Category_5


Media

After Amba Book Launch

Click the image to view the Instagram launch video created by Wave of Nostalgia, an amazing independent bookshop situated in Haworth. The book launch for After Amba took place in the bookshop itself with an additional online audience.

Additionally there are two readings from After Amba which are taken from the recording of the book launch which can be heard below.

Reading 1

Reading 2


Book Launch for The Strange Woman

“A beautiful 3D crow animation and a thousand flowers blooming herald the launch of The Strange Woman. Historical fiction, modern romance and magical realism. A Faustian pact, the Timble Witch trial of 1622, hedge-witchery and herbalism, sheep farming and feminism, and a less than pious poet – in a place where past and present meet. The women of a remote Yorkshire village call ‘Time’s Up’ for the returning demon, to try to save the seventeenth century seven. Time is up, but for whom? You are invited to join author Stephanie Shields and poet James Nash in discussion about this remarkable novel called The Strange Woman.”


Launch Video for The Strange Woman

“The magical 3D crow animation with a thousand flowers blooming – a trailer for the launch of The Strange Woman, a novel by Stephanie Shields, inspired by the Timble Witch trials of 1622.”


Heading North

You can read one of my short stories on-line. Click here to sample my story Heading North, published by Words for the Wild.

This story is set in the foothills of Pendle Hill at a sheepdog trial, where the behaviour of one man sets in motion a dramatic chain of events.


The Last True King of England

Listen to me read my story The Last True King of England on Chapel FM’s Wordybirds programme. Click here to listen.


Love the Words More Interview – Chapel FM

Listen to my interview on Chapel FM – the interview starts at 39 minutes into the recording. Click here to listen.


Imagine Me

Listen to my reading of Imagine Me