Free as a bird? Graeme McCann investigates in this allegorical short story…
Sophie Pollard reports back on James Fenton’s exploration of Coleridge at the Bath Lit Festival
TTI reports back on a rare appearance by booker nominated author Edward St Aubyn’s at the Bath Literature Festival. Alastaire Allday writes…
Two best friends fall out in a story that reminds us of JD Salinger with a dash of Sex and the City thrown in.
‘At the tender age of twenty five, you lay in crisis… you have even made an enemy of your penis – it’s too depressed, too deflated to perform.’ In the latest part of our series of articles on the quarter life crisis, Tom Siggins weighs in with a short story about suddenly waking up and discovering what comes next.
Jemma Nova unpicks the past in a short poem
Shakespeare’s Othello — a tale of greed, lust, bitterness and jealousy. But what if the story was told from the perspective of one of the peripheral characters? Bianca is a girl who’s recklessly used and then thrown away, forgotten. This is her monologue. We happen to think it’s one of the most challenging, thought-provoking and inventive pieces of fiction we’ve seen in some time. Take a deep breath, dust down that copy of Othello you have’t touched since A level, and read on…
A day in the life of…? You decide. Michael Powell delivers a short story that’s anything but 9 to 5.
Al Allday lets his creative facade drop. Or does he?
Matt Thorne has been long listed for the booker prize and has several successful novels on the shelves, including his most recent, Cherry. Al Allday spoke to him about his writing, what he is working on at the moment and the literary movement that is associated with his name: the New Puritans, a group aimed at bringing simplicity in form and structure back to contemporary writing.
LaChute paints an all too familiar picture…
Chemnitz - a short story by Aris Roussinos
Rose - A short story by Al Allday
Al Allday considers the literary ramifications of periodic cycles of conspicuous consumption.
According to our Perversion Correspondent, Vermillion Sproul, a novel act of personal degradation is gaining popularity in the carwashes of the capital. By offering him a large amount of money (exactly equivalent to the amount he owes his sister) we persuaded him to investigate in person. We’ve not seen him since, but we found this copy wrapped around a brick in the back of his abandoned car.
M.J. Black wires in with another front-line despatch about booze, drugs, women and music. Well, it’s better than being sent to Basra, isn’t it?
MGD Smith delivers a powerfully hallucinogenic short story.
Leave a typewriter lying around and this happens…
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