Gregory Norminton is a novelist, actor, playwright, and environmental activist, born in 1976. Several short stories and dramatisations have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and he has completed a short story collection THE POISON TREE. He was on the…
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Sandra Arnold is an award-winning writer with a PhD in Creative Writing from CQ University, Australia. She is the author of two novels and a book on parental bereavement. Her short stories have been widely published and anthologised in New…
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Kit de Waal was born in Birmingham to an Irish mother, who was a childminder and foster carer and a Caribbean father. She worked for fifteen years in criminal and family law, was a magistrate for several years and…
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Recommendation by Joesphine Greenland Red by Katie Knoll “Change us,” the narrators chant. “Change us, we ask the blood inside us. Change us, we ask the ghost mothers and fathers.” The theme of change, both as a desire to break with…
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Review by Foye McCarthy *** There’s an unnerving moment near the end of Denis Johnson’s new collection, at the close of the story Triumph Over the Grave, where the narrator tells us “it’s plain to you that at the time…
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Zoe Gilbert is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2014. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and her work has been published in many journals. She co-hosts the Short Story Club at the Word Factory and is the…
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Melissa Fu is from Los Alamos, New Mexico and lives in Cambridgeshire, UK. Fascinated by literature and science, she majored in English and Physics at Rice University. She then completed a MS in Physics at the University of Colorado. After…
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Megan Ross is a writer, poet and journalist from the Eastern Cape in South Africa. She is the 2016 Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award winner. Her short story, “Farang,” won the 2017 Brittle Paper Award for Fiction and was second runner-up for the 2016 Short…
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