Bethany Rogers
B. G. Rogers is a short story writer, poet and SEO copywriter from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (UK). She currently lives in Queenstown, Aotearoa New Zealand with a ginormous house rabbit called Oscar Wilde.
Her work has been published internationally and commended by Aesthetica Magazine, shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction Prize and longlisted in the New Zealand Flash Fiction Day competition. In 2021 she was selected for the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Mentor Programme for emerging writers. She's a regular contributor to magazines, particularly on arts-releated topics.
An avid fan of the arts, she’s collaborated with film-makers, performance artists and visual artists to create multi-media pieces that bring together creative writing and other art forms. Bethany also uses her copywriting and communications skills to help artists, festivals and businesses to get their messages out there.
She’s a founding trustee of the Queenstown Writers Festival and a member and organiser of the Queenstown Creative Writing Group. Kaleidoscopes in the Dark is her first short story collection.
Genre:
- Feature Articles
- Flash Fiction
- Journalism
- Poetry
- Short Stories
- Web Writing
Skills:
- Corporate Writing
- Editing
- Freelance Writing
- Journalism
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
- Short Story Writing
- Website Content
Branch:
Otago/Southland
Location:
Queenstown
Publications:
Source.
https://www.sourcemagazine.co.nz
- Editor 2016 – 2020
- Contributing writer from 2014
Lakes Weekly Bulletin
A weekly magazine based in Queenstown, New Zealand. Bethany Rogers is a regular contributor and helped develop the community and arts and culture pages.
Kaleidoscopes in the Dark
A child carefully crawls through a world of plastic waste in search of water but knows she won’t make it if the blood-drinking gulls catch a glimpse of her.
A young woman plots her way onto the latest reality TV programme, where murderers are publicly executed in a manner that mirrors their crimes.
Mice conspire with a seamstress to bring her dead fiancé back to life using an old English tradition.
Short. Readable. Disturbing. The stories in Kaleidoscopes in the Dark paint the more sinister elements of the psyche in technicolour. The collection writhes with black humour, remnants of fairytales and gothic themes.
ISBN 978-0-473-64879-4 (softcover)
ISBN 978-0-473-64710-0 (Kindle)
Formats: softcover, POD, epub and kindle
Extent: 112 pages, 11 short stories
Size: 5.25" x 8"
Publisher: B.PRESS
Release: October 2022