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  • THE SHORT STORY THAT WON LOUIE CONWAY SECOND IN THE BRICK LANE BOOKSHOP PRIZE, by Summer Kendrick

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    “The baby understands with a kind of instinctive visceral despair that a process of change is underway which, once complete, cannot be reversed.”

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  • AN INTERVIEW WITH ANTHONY MCGOWAN, by JB Smith

    “Stag Hunt was published by Hodder and Stoughton. Beautiful edition. Nice reviews. Tesco bought tens of thousands of copies.” But here’s the kick. “The barcode had been misprinted and wouldn’t run through the tills.”

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  • BREAKING KAYFABE: AN INTERVIEW WITH WES BROWN, by Craig Smith

    “And so that’s what the ‘no style’ was. I wanted it to seem spontaneous, to deliberately not write well. And that was a risk because if you want to purposefully write with a little bit less gloss and a little bit less polish, it could come off like you just can’t write. But I wanted…

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  • ‘A DEFINING MESSAGE OF EDUCATION AND ACCEPTANCE’ : A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOOTON ON HIS DEBUT POETRY PAMPHLET, WALKING CONTAGIONS, by Matt Bates

    I wanted to write in a way that was bold, brash and blunt. I didn’t want to overuse metaphor but to say what I really thought on the matter. If my pamphlet expresses an element of the ‘defining message of education and acceptance’, then I have succeeded in what I wanted to do.

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    MIR Editor