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...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANN ATKINS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANN ATKINS

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS ANN ATKINS   Some days I’m entertainment, sunshine and slot machines donkey rides and ice creams. Others, I’m out of season, boarded up shops sandbags to fight the floods, though it’s not really seasonal,...
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...