April 2021: List of Literary Events Online

April 2021: List of Literary Events Online

Listing for April 2021: Literary Events Online   Welcome to April! Although we’re making good progress in the UK with the roll-out of vaccines, this COVID-19 pandemic is sadly still with us. This means making sure arts events can happen – and safely...
‘FIRST LOOK’ BY EMMA EVANS

‘FIRST LOOK’ BY EMMA EVANS

  First Look By Emma Evans   This piece was written after (and inspired by) attending HCE’s launch event for The Green Issue. (For more information or to purchase your copy, visit our shop.)   Blades of grass gently spike the soles of her feet as she...
WRITING ADVICE: CHARACTERISING YOUR SETTING

WRITING ADVICE: CHARACTERISING YOUR SETTING

Writing Advice: Characterising Your Setting   By Emma Evans   We are all familiar with the concept of a setting – and I’m sure can list off famed settings in a sort of roll call of the greats, too. Here, I want to look at writing settings in a slightly...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ‘SPECIAL K’

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ‘SPECIAL K’

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SPECIAL K     “Poetry is the way a woman snuggles into the spoon of her lover’s embrace, while she sleeps… Poetry is addiction – it’ll have you feening for snaps and claps, always taking you back to your first time… So...