REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’

REVIEW: JULIA WEBB’S ‘THREAT’       Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Something called “the big pushchair” makes several appearances in Threat, Julia Webb’s 2019 collection about growing up in rural Norfolk. The pushchair is not the subject of any...
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...
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...