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  • Creatives in profile: interview with Anna Saunders

    Are there any sights more cheering than crowds of readers tramping across a field carrying books, or sitting under canopies discussing the minutiae of a single line of poetry, or a page of fiction? Increasingly, we live in such a fast-paced world that leaves precious little room for these acts of literary activity (for ‘activity’, may…

  • Creatives in profile: interview with Michael Caines, co-editor of the Brixton Review of Books

    It increasingly appears as though we live in an era where the biggest publishing companies and media organisations are only concerned with stabilising profits for shareholders – and are prioritising making money over supporting originality and new creative ideas. With the largest corporations influencing so much of the culture we consume, this has the potential…

  • Dr Chuck Tingle’s writing tips for writers

    Good writing advice is hard to find. We’ve previously compiled various collections of writing tips from some of literature’s greatest minds; but we’re always looking to go one step further. As writers and creatives, our learning is built on the mentoring and advice of our peers and our mentors. The imparted knowledge they can share with…

  • Book Review: ‘Scratch’ by Steve Himmer

    A forest can be a spooky place. It may seem lush and inviting to an urban dweller, but it’s not as welcoming as it seems. It’s easy to imagine that there might be things in the thickest part of the forest that are quite beyond our knowledge, watching and waiting. This novella begins uncannily enough,…

  • The Dancer

    I saw Jane Hariott for the first time since our schooldays over the body of a dead Canadian. Normandy, June 1944.  I was fresh from England, still blinking away the things I’d seen on the voyage across the channel and on the drive down from the coast. As a nurse I was used to death,…

  • Salt Publishing facing fight for survival

    Acclaimed independent book publishers Salt Publishing are facing a fight for survival, as a challenging time for the publishing sector continues. In a tweet, Salt addressed its readers directly, asking for their support through the #JustOneBook initiative: Dear readers, we need your help. Sadly, we’re facing a very challenging time and need your custom to…

  • Short stories by Philip Roth you can read for free right now

    Celebrated as “the last of the great white male” American authors of the 20th Century, Philip Roth has died at the age of 85. Rather than devote pages (or pixels, as may more accurately be the case) to an obituary recounting the same great feats of an author who has towered over the US literary…

  • Eat My Debt

    Receipts are very obviously very wrong. Anyone – man or woman – after a day’s Christmas shopping can see this. The hardware shop you go into to buy your dad that new pair of gardening gloves has a stupid bit of token paper about one inch square, whereas when you go to the stereo shop…

  • The Making of Manifest, the Warwick MA Anthology

    Warwick University’s Writing Programme (WWP) has been consistently ranked as the best creative writing course in the UK for the past five years. In this article, Ellen Lavelle, one of the 2018 cohort of WWP’s MA students, takes us through the trials and tribulations of publishing a unique anthology of student writing.  I am not…

  • Creatives in profile: interview with Dr Chuck Tingle

    A few years ago, a new literary sub-genre exploded onto the publishing scene. The sub-genre in question was dinosaur erotica (no need to beat around the prehistoric bush here – these are books where dinosaurs have sex with humans. You can read our detailed introduction here). And, as sales of these books started to take…