The first time that I wrote something, I was in Japan, eating an egg that I’d hard- boiled in a Hello Kitty kettle with Engrish faux-proverbs all over the side. ...
Our latest Flash of Inspiration interview is with Gerri Brightwell, a British writer who lives in Alaska. She has written novels as well as short fiction, for which she’s been listed for ...
“I love how short forms challenge us to jump right in to the world of the story.” Read our latest contributor #Interview, with Pauline Holdsworth. Continue Reading Flash ...
Rob Yates interviewed about his story “Lovers of This World,” the writing life, and the future of literature Continue Reading A FLASH OF INSPIRATION: “LOVERS OF THIS WORLD”
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Writer Andrew Bertaina interviewed Continue Reading A FLASH OF INSPIRATION: “WINTER IN THE CITY”
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FROM OUR ARCHIVES: It seems a fitting time to declare that there is nothing out there as potent as black comedy to capture the absurdity of life in our time. ...
If we were to be honest, most of us could fit this description: XYZ is a cranky perfectionist. Obsessively revises everything she/he writes. Agonizes over every damn word. Is a ...
We are, as writers, the solar collector, the hybrid engine: we take energy from what surrounds us or our remembering of surroundings Continue Reading Writing, and Chaplin
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Vesna Main’s latest novel, Good Day?, is a masterpiece of understatement and inquiry into intimacy, fidelity, memory, and the business of fiction itself Continue Reading Book Review: Good ...
With over thirty contributions from as many writers, Common People shines a light on the huge diversity of people in the United Kingdom and celebrates this richness loudly. ...
Sparkes and Hilaire have divided in two the work of unearthing and voicing by location, with Sparkes taking North and Hilaire the South of London, demarcated by the river that ...
In “The Choke” characters are trapped by circumstances, doomed to repeat the mistakes of previous generations, as they bid to break free from a cycle of poverty, addiction and violence. ...
In her collection of essays, At Home in the New World, Maria Terrone explores the world through the lens of an Italian-American New Yorker. This is a fascinating collection of ...
What, a friend who came to visit me asked, is a writing group?
It’s just like a barn, I said. Horses. Continue Reading A Writing Group, and Horses
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Food is a byword for class, loss, happiness, and a minefield of potential gaffes for the culturally uninitiated. Continue Reading Book Review: Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya
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The backdrops are real and effectively drawn but it is in charting the contours of the human condition that McNamara succeeds with skilful interpretation. Continue Reading Book Review: ...
The author who would become known internationally as Joseph Conrad was born in 1857 in northern Ukraine, a region home to a significant community of ethnic Poles. Continue ...
In this book Gordon takes five women writers who battled against the social norms and takes us behind the characters they created Continue Reading Book Review: Outsiders: Five ...
These poems and prose poems are not simply love letters to loyal companions; instead the reader is presented with Blakeian explorations into perspectives: the points of view of animals, their ...
Meet you. You are the hero of Mr. Either/Or, a story told in second person, which creates the feel of a choose-your-own-adventure novel. Continue Reading The Epic Poetry ...
