Author: paraxenesmeres

 We are glad to announce the finalists for the Eyelands Book Awards 2019.

First of all we would like to thank all writers for their submissions. Last year in our very first time to launch the contest it was a surprise to receive so many books. This year with even more submissions our …problem was that we received so many good books and it was very hard work for us to choose the finalists. Once more we wished we could include more books in this list but we just can’t. The only thing we could do, as we did last year, was to nominate a few more books as finalists for the novels category due to the greater number of  books submitted to this specific category.  

Congratulations to all of you, for all your great books.  

These are the finalists for every category:

EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS  – FINALISTS 2019

(by submission order)

  

CATEGORY: POETRY

PUBLISHED

1. The Nurseryman – Arthur Allen / Scotland
2. Captain Fly’s Bucketlist – Agnes Marton / Luxembourg
3. Blood Moon – Andrew Jarvis / USA
4. Poems of the Void – Sreekanth Kopuri /India
5. How to grow matches – Sarah Leavesley / United Kingdom
6. Door of no return / Neal Hall /USA

UNPUBLISHED

1. At the foot of the mountain / TAK Erzinger / Switzerland
2.Before, Bam, After and Beyond /– Frank Light / USA
3. The trembling Tiber / Neal Hall
4. Window Spit / Alan David Pritchard / United Kingdom

CATEGORY:  MEMOIR – HISTORICAL FICTION

PUBLISHED

1. Nice Girls DO Travel / Kathy Cuddihy / Ireland
2. Walk Until Sunrise / Jade J. Maze / USA
3. Secrets of a Mariachi Violinist / D.R. Ransdell /USA
4. Rodanthe’s Gift – Yvonne Payne / United Kingdom
5. Secrets of a Stewardess /Gretchen Ryan / United Kingdom

UNPUBLISHED

1. Ninety-Nine Fire Hoops / Allison Hong Merrill / USA
2. Adjustment disorder — a Collection of Maladjusted Essays / Patrick Mondaca / USA
3. Unglued: A Bipolar Love Story-Jeffrey Zuckerman / USA
4. The Man Who Got Out of Japan / Sophie Neville / United Kingdom
5. The Swimmer / David Tenenbaum / USA

CATEGORY: CHILDREN’S BOOKS/GRAPHIC NOVELS

UNPUBLISHED

1. Peter, the Sea, and His Sister’s Disco Ball – Anthony Palazzo-Coetzer / United Kingdom
2. Florissant – P.H.C. Marchesi / USA
3. There’s an Elephant in my Swimming pool – Gretchen Ryan / United Kingdom
4. Teddy Wet My Bed – Vernae Coffee / USA
5. Under the oak tree / Phil Ioannou / Canada

PUBLISHED

1. Revenge of the Servants of the Gods /Judith Brulo / United Kingdom
2. The Mystery of the Never-Ending Universe /Judith Brulo / United Kingdom
3. Gangster School – Kate Wiseman / United Kingdom
4. Church-Walk-On-The-Beach – Diane Dowsing Robison /USA
5. Transcendence the Spirit Quest series, Book 1 – A. L. Waddington / USA

 CATEGORY: SHORT STORIES

UNPUBLISHED

1.End of Things / Gareth Shore/ United Kingdom
2./ This is Exhibit Β – D.R.Hill/ United Kingdom
3./ A Brief History of Misanthropy – Dean Gessie
4./ Tales of the Anointed Skeletons and Love / Lahari Mahalanabish(Chatterji / India
5.A Perfect Day to Die – Yoko Morgenstern / Germany

 PUBLISHED

1.Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air / Jeff Fearnside / USA
2.Neighbours and Tourists / Ewa Mazierska / United Kingdom
3.The Elfin Stone and other stories / Sarah Crabtree  / United Kingdom
4.This Paradise / Ruby Cowling / United Kingdom
5.Calls to Distant Places – Peter Jordan / United Kingdom

CATEGORY: NOVELS

UNPUBLISHED

1.That Which Remains –  S. K. Kruse/ USA
2.The Cruelty Man /Jack O’Donnell / Scotland
3.All Things Nice – Cressida Evans / Brazil
4.DoveLion: A Fairy Tale For Our Times – Eileen R. Tabios / USA
5.Cuckoo – Angela Pertusini/ United Kingdom
6.Old scores – Robin Martin/ USA
7.The Lost Tide / David Tenenbaum / USA

PUBLISHED
1.Drafts of a Suicide Note / Mandy-Suzanne Wong / Vermuda
2.The Dream Circle / Máire Malone/ Ireland
3.Follies, Fools and Garlands / E.C.Gardiner /United Kingdom
4.Lily Poole / Jack O’Donnell / Scotland
5.Being Lena Levi – Bobbie Ann Coler/ United Kingdom
6.Guantanamo Redux / Dean Gessie /Canada
7.Fukushima Dreams / Zelda Rhiando/ United Kingdom
8.The Threat Level Remains Severe / Rowena Macdonald/ United Kingdom

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We remind you that the final results will be announced on December 20^th, 2019

 

Thanks again,

The judges

Catherine McNamara, Andriana Minou, Gregory Papadoyiannis

Eyelands gr. & Strange Days Books are glad to announce the EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS 2019!!

Grand prize (published books): Five-day holiday in Athens plus a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards and publication (excerpts) online on our website.
Grand prize (unpublished books): Translation into Greek and publication from Strange Days Books
10 more prizes, one for each category of every section also win a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards
Certification document for every prize.
Final results are to be announced on December 20th 2019

Award Ceremony: May, 2020
Place: Athens, Greece

Judges: Andriana Minou (poetry, children’s books, graphic novels), Gregory Papadoyiannis (novels, novellas, historical fiction), Catherine McNamara (short stories)
Entry fee: $30 (27 euros)
Early bird submissions: $ 22 (20 euros)

 

WHAT’S NEW

Early Bird Submission
1/ Early bird submissions till  31 August
2/ Early bird discount till 20 October for Writers who have already submitted stories in our contests in 2018-2019 or participated in our 3 Rock Writers’ Residency Program
and for all the finalist of Eyelands Book Awards 2018!

3/ Early bird discount till 20 October for Writers who will send their book/manuscript by snail mail
All books will be placed at Three Rock’s Library

New categories
Historical Fiction / Memoir
Children’s Books / Graphic Novels

The unpublished book grand prize winner to be translated and published in Greek
Grand prize winners will be the judges for next year’s Eyelands Books Awards 2020 in their prize category

Every prize winner is entitled to a 50% discount stipendium for our 3 Rock Writers’ Residency Program 2020 under the condition that they will send a proposal about a writing project by the end of March 2020.

 

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & DATES & DETAILS
Opening: Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Closing: Sunday, October 20, 2019 at midnight PST.
Submit your book or manuscript online $30.00 (27 euros) (or via snail mail with a $22.00 entry fee)
Multiple submissions allowed (with a separate fee for each submission). Early bird submission $ 22 (20 euros) for every additional submission
Simultaneous submissions allowed, but please notify us if full manuscript is accepted elsewhere.
Finalists for every category to be announced on November, 20, 2019
Final results are to be announced on December, 20, 2019.

Eligible submissions include: poetry, novellas, short story collections, novels, children’s books, historical fiction/memoir, graphic novels.
There are no restrictions regarding nationality
Participants must be 18 years old otherwise we need parents’ consent to accept the submission.
Manuscripts must be written in English.
There is no restriction about the form or style of writing. We prefer the pages to be numbered. Files should be uploaded as an MS Word document or PDF. Fill the entry form, copy and paste it in the body of your email.

Submit your manuscript to: eyelandsmag@gmail.com
[or]  strangedaysbooks@gmail.com

or send your book by post to:

Chimarras 6, 74100, Rethymno, Crete, Greece

After the end of the contest all your books will find a place at the library of Three Rock Studio – A writers’ resort in south Crete

PRIZES & PUBLICITY

Section: Published books

Grand Prize: A five-day holiday in Athens plus a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards and publication (excerpts) online on our website. Eyelands cover all accommodation costs for the award winner. Air tickets not included. The author must agree to participate in the EBA ceremony (which will be held in Athens at the time of his/her holidays) and the related publicity (interviews e.t.c.).

There will be five finalists for each category.

Five more prizes, one for each category also win a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards

Certification document for every prize.

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Section: Unpublished books

Grand prize: Translation in Greek and Publication from Strange Days Books.

Five more prizes, one in each category, also win a special handmade ceramic designed especially for Eyelands Book Awards

There will be five finalists for each category.

Certification document for every prize.

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For each entry, submit the book, entry form, and  fee (via paypal). Registration will be confirmed via email. In December, all entrants will be notified of winners. Please fill in, copy and paste the entry form in the body of your email

ENTRY FORM & PAYMENT

Pay via paypal – See the banner on this website

Click the «buy now» button. Fill the description with: EBA

Entry fee: $30 (27 euros)

Early bird submissions: $ 22 (20 euros)

* After the payment is complete, you can send the email with your manuscript as an attachment and the entry form completed, copied and pasted in the body of your email

*An email confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent within three/four days

* We do accept simultaneous submissions

* Every writer can submit more books with the early bird payment fee of $22 (or 20 euros) for every one of them

*There is no fee for the first prize winners of previous Eyelands international short story contests

*All books must have been published between September 20, 2016 and September 20, 2019.

 

ENTRY FORM (submit one entry form per book):

Book Title:

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Author:

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Category:

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Publisher: (for published books only)

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ISBN: (for published books only)

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Contact Information

Address:

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Phone:

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E-Mail:

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AWARD CATEGORIES (select one per entry application):

The following are eligible:

1/Full-length books of fiction (novels or novellas of any genre)

2/ Collections of short stories by one author

3/Collected and selected poems*

4/ Historical fiction – Memoir

5/ Children books – Graphic Novels       

    *any book of poetry (up to 250 pages) written by a single author is eligible

 

EBA follows the CLMP Contest Code of Ethics.

If you have any questions, please contact us at
eyelandsmag@gmail.com  [or]  strangedaysbooks@gmail.com

 

LINKS
See more at:

https://eyelandsawards.com/

https://eyelandscontes.wordpress.com/

http://www.eyelands.grhttps://eyelands.gr/english-section/
https://www.facebook.com/eyelands.portal/
www.strangedaysbooks.gr
www.paraxenesmeres.gr

https://eyelandscontes.wordpress.com/writers-resort/

https://3rockstudio.wordpress.com/writers-residency-program/

Eyelands.gr and Strange Days Books invite you to our very first

 

EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY

MAY 4^th 2019, 18:00

With guests of honor:

Authors

Catherine McNamara (Australia/Italy)

Book: The Cartography of Others
Grand prize winner for published book

Gita –Theodora Simic (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Book: Occam’s Razor

Prize winner for unpublished novel

 

We will read excerpts from the Prize winner books and talk with the award winning authors who will speak about their books and talk with the audience

The ceremony is the first part of the «Spring Fest» of Strange Days Books and Eyelands.gr. Presentations of two new books will follow after the awards ceremony.

 

Guests Authors: Despina Charalampidi, Victoria Makri, Georgia Mama

From Strange Days Publishing: Stavroula Diamanti, Gregory Papadoyiannis

 

Polis Art Cafe – Pesmazοglou Street, Athens

https://www.facebook.com/polisartcafe/

 

 

Catherine McNamara

grew up in Sydney, ran away to Paris, and ended up in West Africa running a bar. Her collection Pelt and Other  Stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award and was semifinalist in the Hudson Prize, and her short stories have been Pushcart nominated, shortlisted and published in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. Catherine lives in Italy.

 

Gita –Theodora Simic

I grew up in the Balkans (early lessons in the ways of life), and lived in Canada for thirty years (continuation of early lessons) with my husband who is an art historian, a piano teacher, and a HIP music enthusiast. Lately we spend a good part of the year close to the Adriatic Sea, in southern Herzegovina (the sea holds no memories but for the rocky cliffs, the morning mist and clear waters of turquoise blue). I was born on the small and wondrous island of Korcula in Croatia, and later moved to Belgrade, Serbia. Both countries denied me citizenship after the break-up of Yugoslavia.

My background is in philosophy and IT. I had studied philosophy and history at the Belgrade University before moving to Canada, where I obtained a diploma in computer programming/systems analysis, with specialization in mid-range computers.

I am a systems analyst by day (for almost twenty-five years), historical fiction writer by night(for several years). When a friend asked why I write historical fiction, I said: “Wouldn’t you, if you had to spend eight hours a day in a cubicle?”  The literary world does not resound with my name.To date, I have completed nine such short stories, a play, and this novel. I am currently working on my second historical fiction novel, loosely based on the life of Sir Francis Drake and the fate of Raphael’s cartoons. Occam’s Razor, a story of Bernini, was also shortlisted at the 2017 CHAUCER BOOK AWARDS Historical Fiction pre-1750s.

 

SHORT STORIES/ PUBLISHED

Townsend Walker / 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies / USA

Townsend Walker draws inspiration from cemeteries, foreign places, violence and strong women.  A collection of short stories, 3 Women, 4 Towns, 5 Bodies was published by Deeds Publishing in 2018. Winner of a Book Excellence Award, an Eyelands Award, and a Pinnacle Award. A novella, La Ronde was published by Truth Serum Press in 2015. Some seventy-five short stories have been published in literary journals and included in ten anthologies. Short Story Awards: two nominations for the PEN/O.Henry Award, first place in the SLO NightWriters contest. Four stories were performed at the New Short Fiction Series in Hollywood. He is currently developing a screenplay based on La Ronde and a novel of linked stories based on the original collage works of the artist Beverly Mills.
UNPUBLISHED

Ruth Brandt / No One Has Any Intention of Building a Wall/ United Kingdom
Ruth Brandt is delighted to win the Unpublished Short Story Collection Award in the Eyelands Book Awards. Her short stories and flash fiction have appeared in anthologies and magazines, including the Bridport Prize 2018, Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual, Into the Void, Neon, Litro and The London Reader. She has had a play performed at Theatre 503 and her poetry published in the Irish Literary Review and Bunbury Magazine. She won the Kingston University MFA Creative Writing Prize 2017 and has been nominated for the Best Small Fictions Award 2019, Pushcart Prize 2016 and Write Well Award 2016. She teaches at Surrey Adult Learning and West Dean College, and is Writer in Residence at the Surrey Wildlife Trust.

 

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POETRY /PUBLISHED

Amy Pence / [It] Incandescent / Ninebark/ USA
Amy Pence authored the poetry collections Armor, Amour (Ninebark Press), The Decadent Lovely (Main Street Rag), and the chapbook Skin’s Dark Night (2River Press). Her hybrid book on Emily Dickinson— [It] Incandescent – was released by Ninebark in 2018. A new chapbook of poems, Your Posthumous Dress: Remnants from the Alexander McQueen Collection is forthcoming from dancing girls press in the Fall of 2019. In addition to poetry, Pence has published short fiction in publications such as Western Humanities Review, Women’s Studies Quarterly and online at The Red Fez. Her reviews of books and interviews with writers have appeared on The Rumpus and in Poets & Writers and The Writer’s Chronicle. She works as the Humanities tutor at Pace Academy in Atlanta, teaches a poetry writing class at Emory University, and lives in Pine Lake, Georgia. Links to her work can be found at www.amypence.com.

 

UNPUBLISHED

Jeffrey Kingman / Beyond that hill I gather /USA|
Jeffrey Kingman lives by the Napa River in Vallejo, California. He is the winner of the 2012 Revolution House Flash Fiction Contest, the winner of the Red Berry Editions 2015 Broadside Contest, a finalist in the 2015 Blue Light Press Chapbook Competition, a finalist in the 2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry book competition, and he received honorable mention in the 2017 Quercus Review Press Fall Poetry Book Award. He has been published in PANK, Crack the Spine, Squaw Valley Review, and others. Jeff has a Master’s degree in Music Composition and can be heard banging his drums in a band called O Happy Dagger.

 

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NOVELS / PUBLISHED

Ashley Lloyd Smith/ Pizza with Jimbob & Twoforks / Liquorice Fish Books/ United Kingdom
Ashley’s background is in theatre; writing, directing and acting.  He is a Drama graduate of Aberystwyth University and post graduate of the University of Surrey.  His plays have been performed on three continents. His poetry and short stories have been published in a number of anthologies.  He started writing his first published novel, Pizza with Jimbob & Twoforks, whilst on a romantic Valentine’s weekend staying in a Tipi; about a man who murders his wife, regrets it and searches for salvation. His second novel, How I earned my Midpoint bumper sticker, takeson the growing waves of anti-feminist propaganda through the friendship of a promiscuous Canadian stand-up comedienne and an English stay-at-home husband, on a road trip through America.

 

UNPUBLISHED

Gita Theodora Simic/ Occam’s Razor / Bosnia-Herzegovina
I grew up in the Balkans (early lessons in the ways of life), and lived in Canada for thirty years (continuation of early lessons) with my husband who is an art historian, a piano teacher, and a HIP music enthusiast. Lately we spend a good part of the year close to the Adriatic Sea, in southern Herzegovina (the sea holds no memories but for the rocky cliffs, the morning mist and clear waters of turquoise blue). I was born on the small and wondrous island of Korcula in Croatia, and later moved to Belgrade, Serbia. Both countries denied me citizenship after the break-up of Yugoslavia. My background is in philosophy and IT. I had studied philosophy and history at the Belgrade University before moving to Canada, where I obtained a diploma in computer programming/systems analysis, with specialization in mid-range computers.

I am a systems analyst by day (for almost twenty-five years), historical fiction writer by night(for several years). When a friend asked why I write historical fiction, I said: “Wouldn’t you, if you had to spend eight hours a day in a cubicle?”  The literary world does not resound with my name.To date, I have completed nine such short stories, a play, and this novel. I am currently working on my second historical fiction novel, loosely based on the life of Sir Francis Drake and the fate of Raphael’s cartoons. Occam’s Razor, a story of Bernini, was also shortlisted at the 2017 CHAUCER BOOK AWARDS Historical Fiction pre-1750s.

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GRAND PRIZE PUBLISHED

Catherine McNamara/ The Cartography of Others / Unbound/ Australia/Italy
Catherine McNamara grew up in Sydney, ran away to Paris, and ended up in West Africa running a bar. Her collection Pelt and Other  Stories was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Award and was semifinalist in the Hudson Prize, and her short stories have been Pushcart nominated, shortlisted and published in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. Catherine lives in Italy.

GRAND PRIZE UNPUBLISHED

Michael Robinson Morris / For Entertainment Purposes Only / USA

 

The contest runs from January 10th through March 20th, 2019
The theme of the contest this year is “Spring”
First prize: A week holiday at Three Rock Writers resort οn the island of Crete
Three prize winners: publication in anthology, handmade ceramic gift, certificate, complimentary copy of the anthology plus a week holiday at Three Rock Resort with a discount 50% from the regular cost (non obligatory)
Shortlisted stories: Publication in anthology/ Free copy
Judge: Gregory Papadoyiannis
Collaboration: Eyelands.gr (online literature magazine) & Strange Days Books (publishing firm)
Entry fee: 10€

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 RULES OF THE CONTEST 

* Theme of the contest: «Spring».

*Entries must be short stories, of any genre, maximum length is 500 words and must be previously unpublished in a book, printed magazine or web-based journal. Entries must be in English

*This is an international contest. There is no restriction such as nationality etc of the author, but you have to be 18 years old on the 11th of January 2019 to enter the contest  –unless there is a parental approval.

* No “eyelands” editor, judge, or relative of theirs, is allowed to enter.

* Entries must be submitted electronically (see below).

* Winners and the short list to be announced on June 10th, 2019

* Copyright of manuscripts remains to the author.

* In addition to the story being published on http://www.eyelands.gr, the author’s acceptance of the prize gives eyelands.gr the right to include the story in the anthology that will appear in book form. Entry gives permission to include the three prize winners and the shortlisted stories in the book which will be published and will be available from “Strange Days” publications.

*Each writer may submit as many stories as they wish, provided they pay a separate entry fee for each story, but only one story of every writer may be included in the short list

* Simultaneous entries are allowed (same piece of work simultaneously entered in other competitions) but you must alert us if your work is placed as a winner or runner up, and your entry will be withdrawn from the competition.

You may voluntarily withdraw your entry from this competition by request via email.

You as the author will retain copyright, but you must allow us temporary and exclusive publishing rights for our anthology if requested.

Withdrawn submissions (for any reason) will not be refunded.

You may be disqualified if any of the rules are not followed.  We will accept corrections to your work from 10^th of June till 10^th of July.

All prize-winners and shortlisted writers have to renew their approval for the publishing of the anthology till the end of August 2019.

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PRIZES & HONORABLE MENTIONS

– First prize is a week holiday at Three Rock Resort, situated in Triopetra beach, one of the most magnificent places of Greece at the south coast of Crete island,) is a studio for 2 persons. Air tickets not included.

First prize winner can choose his/her preferred week of his/her stay in 2019 or 2020 except for the dates between July 1^st  – August 25^th.

Three more prizes will get a free copy of the book with the winning stories of our contest & a certificate & a Greek handmade ceramic designed especially for the contest from the collection of Artifacts Clayart.

There is also another offer for the three prize winners: a week holiday at Three Rock Resort with a discount 50% from the regular cost (the offer is non obligatory).

All the shortlisted stories (number according to the submissions) will be published in an anthology. The book will be released through “Strange Days” publications and www.amazon.com  in October, 2019. All the shortlisted writers will also get a free copy of the book! The anthology also include the first prize story translated to Greek.

All the shortlisted writers will have a special discount in case they will submit a book for the Eyelands Book Awards 2019 (25 instead of 35 $)

 

ENTRY FORM AND PAYMENT

Pay via paypal – See the banner in eyelands Home Page.

Click the «buy now» button. Fill the description with: EIF

Entry fee is 10 euros

Τhere is also the option to make the entry payment via bank/wire transfer. If you choose this option please ask for further details

* After the payment is complete, you can send an e-mail with your story attached in word doc /docx format to:

eyelandsmag@gmail.com
or
strangedaysbooks@gmail.com

writing in the subject line: Eyelands International Flash Fiction Contest or EIF

*An email confirmation that your entry has been received will be sent within three /four days of receiving your e-mail.

*We don’t accept postal entries

* Name, nationality and address of the author are to be submitted in a separate attachment accompanying the entry.

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ABOUT THREE ROCK & TRIOPETRA BEACH

Τhree-Rock is a unique studio with a design that combines a touch from the ’60s with the current look and you can also find all the necessary amenities of a modern tourist accommodation. Designed to accommodate two to four people, the studio is one very large furnished room of 70 sq.m., (with a separate bathroom) with a lot of space which allows you to cook, dine, relax all day if you want and can simply and easily be tailored to your taste. The studio has a large terrace (about 25 square m.) at the front, facing the sea, and a back terrace facing east with a view to the hills. The distance from the beach is just 250 meters.

According to several guidebooks and websites, Triopetra is one of the most beautiful beaches in Crete -and Greece. But it remains a beach that is not known to many people. It has fans (from Greece and abroad) who visit it each year and their number is increasing steadily. Still, it remains a kind of unexplored paradise. Guests are able to enjoy a beach that is never crowded, even in the heart of summer, as the length of Triopetra beach is about two kilometers! The beach is an undiscovered paradise, has restaurants, a cafe and a beach bar as well as (free) umbrellas and lounges for those who prefer them. Triopetra beach is also known for yoga courses delivered during the summer months in the surrounding area. Triopetra is situated at the very centre of the island (south part) and that means you can see many interesting places (like Phaistos, Agia Galini, Matala, Preveli) in relatively short distance.

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LINKS, WEBPAGES, BLOGS

EYELANDS
http://www.eyelands.gr
http://www.eyelands.gr/ english section
&
https://eyelandscontes.wordpress.com

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STRANGE DAYS BOOKS
www.paraxenesmeres.gr (Greek)
www.strangedaysbooks.gr  (English)
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THREE ROCK STUDIO
http://three-rock.blogspot.gr/
*cover painting by Andriana Minou