Acclaimed Literary Anthology Series Continues to Showcase the Delights of Travel

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Nov. 1, 2016 - PRLog -- Since its inception in 2009, the Lowestoft Chronicle, a travel-related literary magazine published quarterly, has been growing in popularity and garnering high praise from readers, distinguished authors, and mainstream critics alike. New York Times bestselling authors like Jay Parini, James Reasoner, and Franz Wisner have all appeared in the magazine. Popular novelists like James R. Benn, author of the famous Billy Boyle mysteries, have called it a "superb online journal." Fellow mystery author Sheldon Russell, best known for his acclaimed Hook Runyon books, described it as "both classy and fun to read." And reviewer Cheryl LaGuardia, in her column for Library Journal, once remarked: "All things considered, it might just be a very good thing if the Lowestoft Chronicle were to achieve their goal of world domination."

The magazine was founded by Nicholas Litchfield, a writer and librarian living in Western New York who spent several years in East Anglia and fell in love with the Suffolk seaside town's solitude and softest sand. It was the town's historic lack of notable writers or periodicals that prompted him to launch Lowestoft Chronicle, providing the UK's most easterly point with its first literary magazine.

Every year, the magazine publishes an annual print anthology of short stories, poetry, interviews, and creative nonfiction by established and upcoming writers from across the globe. Previous books in their anthology series have frequently been featured in Examiner and in various daily tabloid newspapers in the UK, including the Lancashire Evening Post, which described their third book, Intrepid Travelers, as "a coruscating cornucopia of humor, drama and big, beautiful adventures." In fact, iconic novelist Luke Rhinehart, author of the 1971 cult classic The Dice Man, touted their first anthology as an impetus for inspiring him to write short stories again.

The latest collection, Grand Departures, will be published on November 1st and includes a foreword by (and in-depth interview with) prize-winning author Robert Garner McBrearty, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Author Ivy Goodman, winner of the prestigious Iowa Short Fiction Award for her story collection Heart Failure, said of the new collection: "The stories, poems, and essays in Nicholas Litchfield's latest anthology, Grand Departures, are haunting, idiosyncratic, and unexpected, like the true delights of travel."

Grand Departures is available from all good retailers, including Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Departures-Lowestoft-Chronic...) and Barnes and Noble, or you can get a copy directly from the publisher at http://www.lowestoftchronicle.com/shop.html