The opening of Little Boy, the debut novel by John Smith. An Editor’s Choice in The Bookseller’s Discover Review, it is available to purchase from Boiler House Press. Part 1 1 One morning a small boy was found buried in the ground in the Belgian Congo. He was buried up to the scalp. […]
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To Fill A Yellow House
An extract from Sussie Anie’s debut novel, To Fill A Yellow House, published by Phoenix, Orion on 7 July 2022. The boy will live and die here: on this street that cuts the heart of town. A quaint street by day: a corridor of boutique shops and higgledy-piggledy markets arranged over a bridge. The […]
UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements January – June 2022
A round-up of UEA Creative Writing alumni achievements in the six months from 1 January 2022: DEBUTS Sarah Barnsley (BA 1997) published a debut poetry collection. Cai Draper (MA 2018), Eve Esfandiari-Denney (current MA) and Imogen McHugh (current MA) published debut poetry pamphlets. Ferne Arfin (MA 1995), Jonathan Page (MA 1995), J.M. (Jacqui) Burgoyne […]
WEST
An extract from Megan Bradbury’s second novel, WEST (a work in progress). They throw their bags into the trunk and take to the road in the early morning. They drive through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, the Battery, the Holland Tunnel. They come out in the greyness of New Jersey. An hour in, they […]
A King’s Bones
Two poems from Imogen McHugh’s new poetry book, A King’s Bones, published by Dempsey and Windle on 1 June 2022. A King’s Bones The earth is full of breath and silent prisoners the clay and the worm, the sigh of the seasons do not make a restful place for a king’s bones. I have […]
And Who’s She When She’s At Home?
A short film written and produced by poet Ellen Renton, exploring the life of her great great grandmother in domestic service. The film was made in collaboration with filmmaker Douglas Tyrrell Bunge, artist Megan Rudden, and musician Jen Mac. The project is supported by an Unlimited Research and Development Commission, and the next stage will […]
The Mother of All Elections
An edited excerpt from Chapter 2 of Spoilt Ballots: The Elections that Shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril (Penguin Random House, 2022) by Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall Democracy in the Cape Colony became an issue of grave importance to all races when Britain threatened to turn it into a penal colony. In […]
Diego Garcia
An excerpt from the novel Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions on 25 May 2022 Edinburgh, 2014. Two writer friends, Damaris Caleemootoo and Oliver Pablo Herzberg, escape London, the city that killed his brother. They spend their days trying to get to the library, bickering over their tanking bitcoin, […]
As for the love of beautiful creatures
A poem from the pamphlet My Bodies This Morning This Evening by Eve Esfandiari-Denney, published by Bad Betty Press in March 2022. ……… ….I believe in a bag of wet bikinis, the tradition of sadness, that everywhere is a mother dying as a mother does forever mutilated and sleeping, spinning light and organs like […]
Writer
An extract from JM Burgoyne’s debut novel, Writer, published by Story Machine on 5 May 2022. Someone is walking under a black sky towards a house. A white house with wooden slats, blue grey on the lintels and window frames, on the doors, the shutters, overhang of the roof. The roof is slate. The […]