DO YOU WANT TO WORK IN F*C*ING TV?

DO YOU WANT TO WORK IN F*C*ING TV?

Do you want to work in f*c*ing TV? By Joe Bennett   If you’re a writer or creative, you might have always had that sweet temptation to embark on a career into the jolly old world of TV and Film…but before you do, here are some things to consider.   Now is a...
REVIEW: JAY BERNARD’S ‘SURGE’

REVIEW: JAY BERNARD’S ‘SURGE’

REVIEW: JAY BERNARD’S SURGE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   “remember we were brought here from the clear waters of our dreams/that we might be named, numbered and forgotten”: the first line as headlong as a laughing stream; the second as emphatic...
Online Events: July 2021

Online Events: July 2021

Listing for July 2021: Online Literary Events   July has arrived! Here in the UK, we’re making good progress with the roll-out of vaccines and the nation now awaits announcements later this month, to find out which restrictions will be lifted next. COVID-19 is...
Writing Advice: The All-Knowing Narration

Writing Advice: The All-Knowing Narration

Writing Advice: The All-Knowing Narration By Emma Evans   With the opening of submissions for our latest issue – Gods & Monsters – I thought I’d take this opportunity to speak to the storytellers among you! While poets and non-fiction writers can hopefully...
REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’

REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’

REVIEW: LOUISE FAZACKERLEY’S ‘THE LOLITAS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   “I am thinking of aurochs and angels,” declares the paedophile Humbert Humbert in the typically grandiloquent closing passage of Vladimir Nabokov’s scandalous 1955 novel Lolita. “The...