An interview with Gwilym Jones
There’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your…
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago by Douglas Cowie
Douglas Cowie’s most recent book, Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago, is a fictionalised account of the near-two-decades-long relationship between Simone de…
No’s Knife at The Old Vic
‘… no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one…
Interview with Caleb Femi – Young People’s Laureate for London
Caleb Femi, a 26 year old teacher and poet from Peckham, has been chosen to be the new Young People’s…
Picasso Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-Paris
Picasso Sculpture opened to great acclaim last September at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before moving to the Musée…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Steven O’Brien
Attention all entrants! With only a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to our editor, Steven…
William Eggleston: Portraits
William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Erica Wagner
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to one of the judges, Erica Wagner, and…
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
Intimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Max Porter
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we spoke to judge Max Porter and found out about…
Short Story Competition 2016 | An interview with Angus Cargill
With just over a month until our Short Story Competition 2016 closes, we caught up with judge Angus Cargill and found…
Kiss-Kiss-Kissuni by Frances Park
Memories. Some lie dormant for decades then suddenly spring awake, fresh as yesterday. I like to think the writer in…
An interview with Southbank Centre Literature Festival’s Ted Hodgkinson
This October, Southbank Centre will host its 10th Literature Festival, ‘Living in Future Times’. Beginning with a reading of H. G.…
Dead Women Poets Society
‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
In their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Shining Shoes by Nausheen Eusuf
Weekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
Yerma at the Young Vic
Australian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
An interview with Camille Ralphs
Hurst Street Press publisher Shoshana Kessler speaks to poet Camille Ralphs about her recent poetry publication Malkin. SK: I recently…
I Don’t Live in a Mountainous Country by Talin Tahajian
We look up, & beyond the maple trees & the brick steeples with weathervane roosters, clouds billow as sleeping monsters.…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets Schools
SLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
An interview with Bernard O’Donoghue
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in 1945 in Cullen, Co Cork. His latest collection, The Seasons of Cullen Church, returns with…
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