Stryvling’s newest anthology and ninth edition has arrived! The Butterfly Effect highlights that every choice, no matter how small, has a ripple effect that can bind us together or pull us apart in ways beyond our comprehension.

Edited, designed, and produced by the university’s Publishing
Studies postgraduate students, The Butterfly Effect
invites readers to consider how even the faintest shift
can leave a lasting mark.

Detailed Description

It’s said that the flap of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world

can cause a natural disaster weeks later on the other.

 

In The Butterfly Effect every choice, no matter how small,

has a ripple effect that can bind us together or pull us apart in

ways beyond our comprehension.

 

This collection of poetry and short stories traces those ripples

through moments of loss, guilt, memory, and self-discovery.

From a quiet walk after an argument to a morning spent writing

to the simple act of planting a seed, each piece in The Butterfly 

Effect showcases how these acts can influence our lives.

 

What does it mean to exist in a world constantly redefined by change?

 

How does impermanence affect the choices we make?

 

In what way do our actions influence the space around us?

 

Published by Stryvling Press, this anthology celebrates nine years

of emerging voices from the University of Stirling’s Creative

Writing postgraduate programme.