Charlie Hill’s Encounters with Everyday Madness (Roman Books, 2023) isn’t just an exploration of modern madness, it tilts the concept completely, leaving the reader to decide: what is normal, anyway? … Continue reading →
Tess Gunty’s widely acclaimed debut novel takes place in fictional Vacca Vale, Indiana, an obscure town in the Rust Belt of America which we discover early on has
topped Newsweek’s notorious list of “Top Ten Dying American Cities”. At the edge of town, a motley cast of characters fight to survive and aspire to thrive in separate units of a low-cost housing complex, a building named “La Lapinière”, or “The Rabbit Hutch”. Unfettered by the restraints of chronology, Gunty takes the reader on a polyphonic dance that offers both fleeting glimpses and cutting insights into the sad decline of a once bustling industrial centre and the characters who struggle haplessly against the oppressive systemic forces that disrupt and upset their lives.… Continue reading →
It takes awareness, intelligence and creativity to compete professionally at sport. Its exponents have to process multiple sources of ever-changing information in real-time and react accordingly, trusting their body to back their decisions. It’s arguable sportspeople are not given enough credit for how good they have to be to compete at the highest level; they are judged on post-match interviews and PR-filtered press conferences, and only their counterparts and opponents truly know what it takes to survive and thrive in any given sporting arena.… Continue reading →
In Eva Aldea’s debut novel, Singapore is hot and humid, tense, sterile and slow. There are snakes and crabs, expat housewives with Filipina maids. At the centre of this, there is an unnamed female protagonist who vehemently resents her life abroad. She hates the humid heat, struggles to relate to the fellow expats in her circle, and finds solace, it seems, through violent fantasies of murdering the people around her.… Continue reading →
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Blog: Creative nonfiction demands a balance between factual information and literary technique. … Continue reading →
Continuing her series, Lizzie Hubbard writes about studying a creative writing degree remotely during a pandemic.
Miki Lentin shares how he came to enjoy reading and the books that forged this relationship.
Jess Sturman-Coombs shares her reading journey and the stories that have stayed with her.
Continuing her series, Lizzie Hubbard writes about studying a creative writing degree remotely during a pandemic.
Liz Bolton shares her experience of libraries and what the future may hold in the current climate.
In a new series, Lizzie Hubbard writes about studying a creative writing degree remotely during a pandemic.
Lyndsey Garrett reviews her experience of the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Our submissions are now closed.
The theme for this round is Fight or Flight.
As always, we accept poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction from UK-based writers.
We highly encourage underrepresented writers to enter.
The deadline is Friday, November 6th at 5 pm.
