Writing Advice: Tips for Staying Motivated
By Emma Evans | To help us out with staring at the dreaded blank screens and notebooks, I have put together some tips to write one more page and stay motivated to finish what you’re writing.
REVIEW: GEORGE TTOOULI’S ‘FROM ANIMAL ILLICIT’
By Stella Backhouse | So how to describe a collection that potentially regards description as a kind of violation? Well, starting on (relatively) stable ground, I think it’s fair to call this ‘nature poetry’. Ttoouli is clearly inspired by the natural world, and explores his broader themes against a background of human/nature interplay/breakdown. […]
Virtual Events: October 2021 Round-Up
*Cue spooky music* October is here! The HCE magazine team have created another list of online literary open mics, events and workshops to help you plan for the weeks ahead. Don’t miss out on taking part. Why not see this as an opportunity to “travel” far and wide to attend events overseas, while they’re still easily accessible?
REVIEW: ‘IN THE STICKS’ ANTHOLOGY
By Stella Backhouse | English poets have taught us how to love the English countryside, and in the process, have put it at the heart of English identity. So what does In the Sticks, a new anthology of countryside-inspired poetry from Offa’s Press (ed. Simon Fletcher and Cherry Doyle), have to tell us about our current relationship with what many of us think of as […]
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’
By Stella Backhouse | […] motherhood – could actually be a fount of artistic inspiration. Rachel Bower’s new collection ‘These Mothers of Gods’ is part of a poetic movement seeking to redress this – firstly, by exploring meanings of motherhood, and secondly by using it as a lens through which to view economic, racial and gender inequality as well as environmental […]
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY: GODS AND MONSTERS
By Eve Volungeviciute | As a follow-up to her European Mythology article, Eve invites readers to take a brief look at some American mythologies and legends, to explore how these differ. This post ties into the theme of HCE’s next release: ‘The Gods & Monsters Issue’.
SEPTEMBER 2021 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS
Whoa, it’s September already? If you’re still feeling a bit isolated, here is the good news: the HCE magazine team have created another list of online literary open mics, events and workshops, to help you plan for the weeks ahead. Don’t miss out on taking part!
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’
By Stella Backhouse | Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience of chronic pain; and ‘history’ because […]
History of 2Tone at The Herbert – By Sofia Furtado
By Sofia Furtado | In line with Coventry’s nomination for UK City of Culture 2021, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, partnering with Coventry Music Museum, welcomes one of its most recent exhibitions since its closing last year: “2Tone: Lives and Legacies”. […]
SAM REESE: ON WRITING A SECOND STORY COLLECTION
By Sam Reece | The three years I spent working on my second collection, on a distant ridgeline, practically flashed by, bolstered by the certainty that I had a publisher interested in my writing, and an editor who could draw the best out of my work. But, as readers of the short story will know, a brief tale can conceal more complexity than a novel. […]