{"id":4142,"date":"2022-03-07T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2022-04-08T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T19:37:51","slug":"contagious-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/contagious-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"<span>Contagious Tales<\/span><span>Edited by Andrew Simms<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4143\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Contagious-Tales.jpg?resize=400%2C640\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Contagious-Tales.jpg?w=327&amp;ssl=1 327w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writersrebel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Contagious-Tales.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row colin\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-5\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><\/div><\/div>\n<p>This book is part of an ongoing project begun by the New Weather Institute to find more imaginative ways to tell the stories of the challenges faced by our times. Title and authors include <em>Deerspeak<\/em>\u00a0by Anita Roy, <em>You Know This Already<\/em>\u00a0by Sarah Woods, <em>The Ark<\/em>\u00a0by Corrina Cordon and <em>The Prime Minister Knitted Me A Jumper<\/em> by Chris Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese stories matter because they help us grasp a world that is seemingly out of control and imagine what steps we can take next to make things better.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Alan Rusbridger<\/strong><em>,\u00a0<\/em>editor of<em>\u00a0Prospect\u00a0<\/em>magazine, former editor of\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis book is like being by a campfire, surrounded by your favourite people telling stories that are funny, inventive, full of pathos and truth, but also making leaps of imagination that point the way out of our current self-destructive path.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Caroline Lucas<\/strong>, Green Party MP and former leader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To order this book from<strong> The Real Press<\/strong>, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therealpress.co.uk\/product\/contagious-tales-print\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-4-5\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row colin\"><\/div><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-5\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/contagious-tales\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from <span>Contagious Tales<\/span><span>Edited by Andrew Simms<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[662,607],"tags":[640,228,639,638,641,96],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - 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