INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS J. VAN RYAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS J. VAN RYAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS J. VAN RYAN     John VanRyan is a Coventry-based poet and musician who describes himself as “appearing on the poet’s podium out of nowhere”. He spent 20 years as a singer/sax player, but that part of his life was...
Writing Advice: The Writer’s Notebook

Writing Advice: The Writer’s Notebook

Writing Advice: The Writer’s Notebook   By Emma Evans   One of the first pieces of writing advice I remember receiving was to get a notebook and then use it. Carry it everywhere with me. Since getting this advice (and almost certainly owing to the stationery-buying...
JANUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

JANUARY 2022 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

    Fresh year, fresh start – January has arrived! We didn’t expect to still be doing these lists when 2022 came around but, thanks to the Omicron variant, life remains a few steps from resembling normality. Organisers are combatting various...
REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME’ ANTHOLOGY

REVIEW:‘OUT OF TIME POETRY FROM THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY’ ANTHOLOGY   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse Making poetry about climate crisis and environmental emergency is challenging. Nature is of course an age-old fount of poetic inspiration; but the whole point of...
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...