Toys & Games Submissions Sample: Kara Dennison

  HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for the Toys & Games Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Below are just a few of the pieces we...

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Toys & Games Submissions Sample: Patrick Walsh

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for the Toys & Games Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Here is a poem by Patrick Walsh.

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Toys & Games Submissions Sample #3: Sam Smith

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for the Toys & Games Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Sam Smith is one of our regular contributors, so...

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Announcement: Contributors to the East & West Issue

In the East & West Issue (Dec 2016),   "everyone" was...   Josephine Allen - Home Josephine Allen is a Writer and Poet from the Midlands, UK. Her short stories and poems have appeared in literary magazines including Here Comes Everyone, Paper & Ink...

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REVIEW: FIRE & DUST AT THE BIG COMFY LIT FESTIVAL 2016

   Michael McEntee’s Big Comfy Bookshop is situated in FarGo Village (a creative space in Coventry city) and hosts our Fire & Dust poetry open mic every month. This bookshop-cum-café held its first literary festival last weekend, for which HCE/ Silhouette...

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Announcement: Contributors to the Transition Issue

In the Transition Issue (Sept 2016), "everybody" was...   Janet Reed – Losing the Farm [Featured Poem] Erin Smith – More Class than Custard [Featured Story]   Rebecca Milton – Repetition and Recovery Bill Vernon – American Bridge Robert Beveridge – Seven...

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Fire & Dust at Big Comfy Lit Fest

This coming weekend (9th-11th September), The Big Comfy Bookshop is holding a literature festival up in Coventry's Fargo Village. There's going to be lots of interesting stuff going on over the three days, including guest writers, book talks, book signings and live...

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The Blood House – by Sarer Scotthorne – REVIEW

Sarer Scotthorne has produced a bold and brilliant book – a poetic account of the struggle to re-assert sovereignty over the mind and body.                   The Blood House is a metaphor, the body as the “place” in time we...

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