From fire and flood, to air and earth, the voices in ‘Elemental’ rise from the heart of Barnsley, each piece a spark, a current, a breath or a seedling, bound together in our 2026 anthology.

Meet a man surviving in a world overcome by apocalyptical snow, and the team who endeavour to rescue a young girl carried out to sea.

Discover a future world where mermaids are harvested for their tissues with devastating results, and the poignant story of a woman retreading her footsteps at the coast with her beloved for the last time.

Read the beguiling tale of Sorrell as she makes her own special connection with the earth, and share the autobiographical account of a unique tree which will forever hold a special place in our nation’s hearts.

Step into a mythical world where the people of the air, the ‘Aerathi’, vanish without trace, leaving three tribes in their wake, and visit Skarsby on the night a blaze tears through the promenade and a cast of unreliable narrators provide more questions than there are answers.

Herein, stories smoulder, tales turn like the tide, characters take flight and poetry takes root. These writings by the twelve members of ‘Barnsley Creative Writers’ writing group will immerse you in nature and remind you of our smallness within it.