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 #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 […]
The Audition
The Audition is a short film by David Hubbard, produced by BBC Arts New Creatives with Screen South and Arts Council England, released 9 August 2022. Written and directed by David Hubbard, the film was produced by Jonathon Blagrove, edited by Michal Zak, with cinematography from Christopher Sharman. Starring Francesco Piacentini-Smith, the film can also […]
The Colony of Shadows
An extract from Bikram Sharma’s debut novel, The Colony of Shadows, published by Hachette India. Varun walked through the grove behind the bungalow. He’d spent the past week counting the trees on the property and only recognized three. At the end of the driveway was the massive banyan, hundreds of roots dangling from its […]
Two poems from IMPLODE EXPLODE
Two poems from Naoise Gale’s first full collection, IMPLODE EXPLODE, published by Beir Bua Press on 2 October 2022. Fred and Dorothy he came back starved and scarred and she loved him. he bought sewing machines and pork chops and snowstorms, shielded try-hards and sickly kids between the winds and she loved […]
Two poems from Hot Cockalorum
Two poems from Kirsten Irving’s poetry collection Hot Cockalorum, published in 2022 by Guillemot Press. Cannonade My sister, Ursa, is our beautiful leader. Her star power’s double that of Orion, yet she still turns salsa when he talks to her. We’ve been wearing these uniforms since ‘78; when Cannonade began (originally Super […]