Flowers from the Void

Gianni Washington's writing has been published in The Fat City Review online, LitroNY.com, the horror anthology Brief Grislys and read aloud on the Great American Folk Show. She is a monthly contributor to the Chicago Review of Books and holds a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Surrey. She worked for many years as a bookseller in London but is currently based in North Carolina.

Brilliantly unsettling and unsettlingly brilliant, Flowers from the Void is the debut of a writer to watch. There is enough invention in each one of these short stories to power a novel, the macabre inventiveness of Gianni Washington's imagination only matched by the elegance of her style and her ability to create sympathy for the most monstrous of protagonists. These are stories you will want to devour in a hurry but which will linger with you for a very long time indeed.
These wonderfully creepy short stories peel back layers of surface reality with such insight and skill that we find ourselves moving beyond time and space into an underground realm where deeper and darker truths can be revealed.
A grisly, smart, heart-wrenching collection that holds a mirror up to ourselves; I can't wait to see what Washington does next.
A superb collection. Washington brings us to a place both utterly strange and unsettlingly familiar. Beautifully written, beautifully crafted, each one of these stories is a whole world you might lose yourself in. Washington's words vibrate and sing with chilling delight, as we're introduced to a gallery of lost souls - the lost, the lonely, the damned. Absolute proof, if proof were needed, that writing can be a magical act. I loved this.
A terrific gothic delight, spending time in Gianni Washington's beautifully warped imagination is just the tonic needed
Crafted from lithe and supple prose, these sinuous stories are as unpredictable as they are inventive. This is a magical collection that displays an accomplished and versatile talent and alarming breadth of imagination.