A Marathon of Russian Roulette, a documentary play by Kateryna Penkova
December 4, 2022
I left Donetsk when it started there. Escaped with my two children. My ex-husband’s on the other side.
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Narrating the War, a documentary play by Anastasiia Kosodii
December 4, 2022
the small village where I spent the months from June to August as a child is now occupied by Russians
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A Marathon of Russian Roulette, a documentary play by Kateryna Penkova
December 4, 2022
I left Donetsk when it started there. Escaped with my two children. My ex-husband’s on the other side.
Narrating the War, a documentary play by Anastasiia Kosodii
December 4, 2022
the small village where I spent the months from June to August as a child is now occupied by Russians
Grass, by Emma Purshouse
December 1, 2022
Fiction: “He’s rolling up a ten foot length of astro turf into what looks like a giant sized spliff of fake grass.”
I Want To Go Home by Miki Lentin
November 24, 2022
Fiction: “And as my body lay still, waiting for my heart to be healed, the mist, the lonely shivering feeling of being lost, huddled together, looking for a way out, came to me.”
Anatomy of a short struggle, or, An eventful journey by train, by Mark Haw
November 21, 2022
Fiction: “So this afternoon, this fantastically, impossibly unlikely configuration, will not come again.”
Church Valley by Kenn Taylor
November 17, 2022
Creative Non-fiction: “People have got their corner here, however modest, and they get on with it, despite all that is stacked against them, all that is thrown at them.”
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Review: Stitching the Hours With Nothing – Lanyard, by Peter Sansom
November 10, 2022
Lanyard is a beautiful, sad, lonely gathering of elegies for lost friends, lost landscapes, lost industries, lost communities, and lost possibilities.
Review: Rising of the Black Sheep
October 30, 2022
Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed reviews Rising of the Black Sheep, by Livia Kojo Alour
Interview: Sasha Dovzhyk
October 27, 2022
MIR interviews Sasha Dovzhyk, from the Ukraine Lab project
Review: Compliances: A New Fear by Iphgenia Baal and Ben Graville
October 3, 2022
Compliances: A New Fear is a challenging read. To describe it as merely unconventional does not do this work justice. The book pushes you to question where you stand on matters that are very close to home.
Review: Instructions for the Working Day by Joanna Campbell
September 26, 2022
Review: Instructions for the Working Day by Joanna Campbell
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Author Not Present: Sacaran Nights
April 2, 2021
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Author Not Present: The Entertainer
February 26, 2021
Author Not Present is a podcast in which Louise Hare, Christina Carè, and Peter J Coles critique anonymous submitted pieces. In the sixth episode, Louise, Christina, and Peter discuss ‘The Entertainer’. Listen to find out what they liked and what they thought could be improved as they deal with structure
Podcast: Alice Haworth-Booth and Kate Ellis
January 22, 2021
In the fourteenth episode of the MIR Podcast, Peter J Coles talks with the winner of the Bricklane Bookshop short story prize, 2020 Alice Haworth-Booth, and the head of the prize, Kate Ellis. They discuss writing climate change and what it takes to run a big prize. Show Notes: Bricklane Bookshop
Author Not Present: The Woman in the Street
April 10, 2020
This episode was recorded before the outbreak of the current crisis so we apologise for any inaccuracies! Author Not Present is a podcast in which Louise Hare, Christina Carè, and Peter J Coles critique anonymous submitted pieces. In the third episode, Christina and Peter are joined by author Jarred McGinnis
Author Not Present: Magrit
March 27, 2020
This episode was recorded before the outbreak of the current crisis so we apologise for any inaccuracies! Author Not Present is a podcast in which Louise Hare, Christina Carè, and Peter J Coles critique anonymous submitted pieces. In the third episode, they discuss ‘Magrit’ – a quirky story of a