INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JEFF COTTRILL

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JEFF COTTRILL

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS JEFF COTTRILL     Jeff Cottrill is a fiction writer, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto, Canada. He has also been the Literary Editor of Burning Effigy Press. Jeff’s performance style is influenced by slam...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DANGERMOUSE#

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DANGERMOUSE#

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS DANGERMOUSE#       If you’re trying to get out of bed for the fourth day running, I hope you make the stairs. If you’re looking to share the load, I hope your next text ain’t Domino’s. And if you need to get out, I hope...
REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’

REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’

REVIEW: ELISABETH HORAN’S ‘THE MASK’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   It’s perhaps appropriate that The Mask, Elisabeth Horan’s chapbook of poetry inspired by the art of Frida Kahlo, is published by The Broken Spine Artist Collective. In recent years, Kahlo’s...
December 2021 Round-up: Virtual Events

December 2021 Round-up: Virtual Events

    Merry December to you all! The Omicron variant has caused life to take a few steps backwards from resembling normality, but organisers are juggling the various challenges to ensure events can happen safely. Many gigs have returned to their venues (at...
REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’

REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’

REVIEW: JANE BURN’S ‘BE FEARED’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   This week, my grateful thanks are extended to the possibly slightly unlikely personage of glamorous TV presenter Melanie Sykes. Sykes’ recent revelation that she has been diagnosed with autistic...