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  • A LOOK BEHIND AN INDIE PUBLISHING HOUSE – INKSPOT PUBLISHING, Interview by Akshay Gajria

    While studying an MA in Creative Writing, it was ritual to follow up our classes with a pint of beer in a nearby pub. This, of course, was where the real learning happened: sitting across your peers over a pint and sharing ideas, discussing and dissecting that day’s class. These always led to newer, better,…

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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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  • THE INTENTIONALITY BEHIND THE WORK: AN INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI, by Akshay Gajria

    Eragon, the first book in the Inheritance Cycle, which established the World of Eragon as we know it now, holds a special place in my heart and my bookshelf. It is the second book I’d ever read in its entirety and where my love for books and stories started. I was around 7-years-old and it…

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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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  • POEM AND INTERVIEW: Scarlett Sabet

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    A Flag for Hope Revolution and execution,obscured the viewof a landmy Father would never return tothe lines of the body a battle ground,strands of hair a flag for hope.I can feel it when words are close,reach outhold a seance between pen,finger and thumb,resurrect the relatives whose voices came undoneand remember,all the blood that was shedbefore I…

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