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Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing WINNER : Bediye Topal

December 5, 2023

Birkbeck Creative Writing and the family of Birkbeck alumni Cordelia Feldman, are delighted to announce the inaugural Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing. The winner of the inaugural prize is Bediye Topal with her piece X and I.
Bediye was born and raised in a village in Southern Turkey and came to the UK as a refugee in her early twenties. Her piece X and I is about that experience. You can read and extract from her winning piece on MIR Online.
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Well done me, by Cordelia Feldman – extract

December 5, 2023

I’m sitting up in bed at my parental home, writing this on Mum’s computer. At the moment I spend about four days per week here, and three days at my flat. This house, where I spent the first thirty years of my life, is in Radlett in leafy Hertfordshire, just on the edge of the green belt. My cat Spitfire, also known as the Fluffy Monster, or more recently, Precious Angel Fluffball lives here as I am too ill to look after him. … Continue reading →

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Well done me, by Cordelia Feldman – extract

December 5, 2023

I’m sitting up in bed at my parental home, writing this on Mum’s computer. At the moment I spend about four days per week

X and I, by Bediye Topal

December 5, 2023

I belong to a race whose alphabet contains the letters Q, W and X. They are letters. Just letters like any others. But for the

Animal Husbandry, by SJ Ryan

November 24, 2023

“Little old ladies…they should be taken out and shot.” Flecks of saliva spat from his mouth as he banged down the discoloured telephone. “They get,”

Drim, by Nick Norton

November 24, 2023

Inside the villa they are taking no note of lines. Not of lines shall they be ruled, so it was said. Dr Ignatz is saying

Not The End Of The World, by Annabel Banks

November 24, 2023

Their fight will begin after dinner, once the plates are in the dishwasher, the surfaces wiped. This is unavoidable. Desperate to stall—her heating works, his

Dead Mouse, by Charlotte Turnbull

November 17, 2023

When we finally found it in the corner of the downstairs loo – the dead mouse – the children covered their noses with their sleeves

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Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing WINNER : Bediye Topal

December 5, 2023

Birkbeck Creative Writing and the family of Birkbeck alumni Cordelia Feldman, are delighted to announce the inaugural Cordelia Feldman Prize for Life Writing. The winner

Well done me, by Cordelia Feldman – extract

December 5, 2023

I’m sitting up in bed at my parental home, writing this on Mum’s computer. At the moment I spend about four days per week

X and I, by Bediye Topal

December 5, 2023

I belong to a race whose alphabet contains the letters Q, W and X. They are letters. Just letters like any others. But for the

Review: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

November 29, 2023

1960s London. Driven by deep suspicion of the charlatan psychiatrist her sister frequented before her suicide, a young woman decides to visit him herself, under

SUBMISSIONS

November 27, 2023

Our submissions window is now open for literary fiction and poetry.
UK and internationally-based writers
We highly encourage underrepresented writers to enter.
The deadline is Wednesday, January 31st 2024 at

Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

November 17, 2023

Thematically, Sea of Tranquility is a fairly standard time travel mystery, offering three distinct timelines, linked by a fourth. In 1912, eighteen-year-old Edwin St. John.