Reaching Out introduces new and emerging voices in short story and poetry. Joanna Campbell's Carr's 'Aurora and the Book Trolley' spins us into fantasy worlds woven by a child who uses a medical dictionary to role play adults into territories way outside their comfort zones - ";it's her way of reaching out to people"; her mother confides to a confused hospital librarian, whilst Tyler Keevil's winning short story is literally 'Reaching Out', as a man driving down a mountain picks up a young hitch-hiker carrying something strange and as their stories entwine. In Frances Spurrier's winning poems vodka stains light ";with a translucent guilt"; and ";images of the great and the good line the tube walls";. The details are precise and visceral ";Around are piers of shallow chalk lit into wide bays of flint, / shifting dunes and marram grass.";A wonderful range of new voices in poetry and fiction.