Virtual Events: October 2021 Round-Up

Virtual Events: October 2021 Round-Up

Listing for October 2021: Online Literary Events   *Cue spooky music* October is here! Sadly, the pandemic is still here as well, but life in the UK has taken more steps closer to resembling normality, with various Covid-19 restrictions lifted. Organisers are...
REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’

REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’

REVIEW: RACHEL BOWER’S ‘THESE MOTHERS OF GODS’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall,” moaned Coventry-born Cyril Connolly in 1938 – although as he hadn’t had children at the time, and as he’s barely...
SEPTEMBER 2021 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 2021 ROUND-UP: VIRTUAL LITERARY EVENTS

Listing for September 2021: Online Literary Events   Whoa, it’s September already? COVID-19 is still with us, but life in the UK has taken a few steps closer to resembling normality. Here in the UK, many Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted. Organisers...
REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’

REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’

REVIEW: LUCY HURST’S ‘MODERN MEDICINE’     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Perhaps the best way I can describe Lucy Hurst’s experimental chapbook Modern Medicine is as an intimate history of pain. ‘Intimate’ because it is rooted in the poet’s deeply personal experience...
SAM REESE: ON WRITING A SECOND STORY COLLECTION

SAM REESE: ON WRITING A SECOND STORY COLLECTION

Turns: On Writing a Second Short Story Collection By Sam Reese   So you’ve written a short story collection. How do you even begin to write a second? If you watched it from a distance, the journey my second short story collection took to reach publication might...