A collection of award-winning short stories from the 1^st Strange Cities contest.

We created a series of Strange Days contests in order to showcase authors from a different Greek city in each edition. We started from Thessaloniki, the co-capital of Greece, convinced that it has a lot of significant and unique literary voices to offer. As the reader will discover, the collection is indeed full of work by talented people who, apart from beautiful short stories, can offer something more: snapshots of their city, a sensitive look at how it actually is today. Even though the past reclaims its own in many of the stories, the reader's main impression is that of a modern city which belongs to a country in constant crisis but, despite of that, never stops hoping and dreaming.

Thessaloniki is a city worth discovering. Among other events, it hosts one of the most important film festivals in Europe and the only international book fair in Greece. If you can’t make it there, the next best option is to experience its atmosphere through a series of contemporary, award-winning short stories.