REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’

REVIEW: ANDREA MBARUSHIMANA’S ‘FATBERGS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   To the romantics among you, the modern menace of fatbergs, defined by Wikipedia as ‘a rock-like mass of waste matter in a sewer system formed by the combination of flushed...
TINA SEDERHOLM: FINAL WORD

TINA SEDERHOLM: FINAL WORD

Is Your Poem Overwritten or Underwritten? By Tina Sederholm     My first writing teacher, Roland Fishman, used to say, There’s no feeling like having written. Going from a blank page to having a first draft of a poem fifteen minutes later, often something...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS COLIN WELLS       This is a true story: the management of a branch of IKEA have banned old age pensioners from the store because they’ve been using its restaurant as a free dating club. Senior citizens have been flirting,...
TINA SEDERHOLM: FINAL WORD

WRITING ADVICE: CHARACTERISING YOUR SETTING

Writing Advice: Characterising Your Setting   By Emma Evans   We are all familiar with the concept of a setting – and I’m sure can list off famed settings in a sort of roll call of the greats, too. Here, I want to look at writing settings in a slightly...