An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023 2 January Montag Except when I’m doing zazen, I most note my breathing when I’m yawning. Why did I think of Howard Hodgkin just then? I don’t consciously control my in-breaths and out-breaths when I’m at […]
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A Writer’s Diary #4
An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023 1 January Sontag Cocooning. Marbled endpapers enclose me – I am intended to be read on a table of oak, by sunlight falling through ash trees. From a room two rooms away, someone I love plays […]
A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt
A Writer’s Diary is the new book by UEA alumnus Toby Litt and is published by Galley Beggar Press this week. Toby graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 1995 and was included in the Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He is the author of ten […]
A Writer’s Diary #3
An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023 31 December Samstag Black fluff wft. Where does it come from? Those small smudges of darkness on the carpet? Our clothes are all old, and surely have finished moulting some time ago. I see half a […]
A Writer’s Diary #2
An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023 30 December Freitag I’ve been destroyed by pop. (It’s a damp day outside, clouds forming between tree branches.) What I mean is, if I’d never known what ‘catchy’ was – if I’d never taken in the […]
A Writer’s Diary #1
An entry from A Writer’s Diary by Toby Litt, published by Galley Beggar Press on 1 January 2023 29 December Donnerstag Yesterday I looked back through what I’ve written in this diary. Some of it, I’ve no clue where it came from; some pages contain chunks of stuff I write repeatedly – close to […]
UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements July-December 2022
A festive round-up of UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements in the second half of 2022 DEBUTS Iona May (MA 2018) published her debut collection of poetry. Eluned Gramich (MA 2012), Colleen Hubbard (MA 2015), Bikram Sharma (MA 2015), Rashmee Roshan Lall (MA 2016: PhD 2021), Taymour Soomro (MA 2016; PhD 2021), Neon Yang (MA […]
If the Wood Breaks
Horse hit car and everyone died, WHAM-BAM-THANK-YOU-MA’AM. Burnt wheels and broken glass, horse guts cut through and through. It gave a small whinny, big whinny, blood bubbles popped out nostrils and it croaked right out. Sky was drooling all over scene, slobber doggin on car as marshes sat a worry round it. It was hard […]
The Wolf
An extract from a novel. Tessa rekindled a flame under wood in the grate and arranged three logs on the hearth, so heat would draw out their moisture. Wetness hissed in the fire. Pulling her shrunken jumper down over her belt, she passed Solange in the armchair embroidering another hassock and walked to the […]
Another Lonely Night
An extract from a short story. Another Lonely Night 1 Beep beep, says the computer. I imagine it does. I tell it I’m in love. I stroke its keys and give the screen a tender kiss. It doesn’t reply. I’ve been thinking a lot about the legalization of gay marriage and how it […]
