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Category: Fiction

An excerpt from The Storyteller by Faiqa Mansab

29th August 202229th August 2022  Faiqa Mansab

In this delicious excerpt from her upcoming novel – a work about mother-daughter relationships, storytelling, women and murder – Faiqa Mansab has her heroine, feminist scholar Layla, discuss the role of food in myths and rituals whilst eating freshly cooked biryani with friends and family.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bible, Faiqa Mansab, fairy tales, Fiction, Food, Mythology, Novel, preview, Quran, religion, Sufism

The Composition of Maggie Chine by Paula Coston

18th August 2022  Paula Coston

In this gorgeously vivid and whiplash smart short story, Paula Coston plunges us into the world and bodily experiences of Maggie Chine, a 70-year-old woman who continues to live life to its fullest.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, Fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, older women, Paula Coston, short fiction, Short Story

Ten Facts About Teddy Bears: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

12th July 202212th July 2022  Laetitia Erskine

A childhood teddy bear is the lens through which romantic and familial relationships are explored, in this darkly comic and tender short story by Laetitia Erskine.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Divorce, Fiction, short fiction, Short Story, Teddy Bears

Emanance by Ramya Jegatheesan

28th March 202228th March 2022  Ramya Jegatheesan

A young woman slowly unravels during lockdown when compulsively chronicling her own body’s deterioration in Ramya Jegatheesan’s stunning short story, ‘Emanance’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bodies, eating disorders, Fiction, Lockdown, My Body's Bodies Editorial, obsessive compulsive disorder, Pandemic, Ramya Jegatheesan, short fiction

Dare You: a short story by Laetitia Erskine

5th September 2021  Laetitia Erskine

In this powerful short story, an artist walks on the marshes near her home, treading a dangerous line between sea and land, haunted by her own demons and her memories of a drowned friend.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Fiction, Laetitia Erskine, short fiction, Short Story

Female: a short story by Suzannah Ball

13th May 202113th May 2021  Suzannah Ball

The morning after a sleepover reveals the toxic friendship between two young women, in this compelling short story by Suzannah Ball.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: female friendships, friendship, Short Story, toxic friendship

God Unexpected: a short story by Suzannah Ball

8th March 202131st March 2021  Suzannah Ball

God enters into two young girls’ lives without warning, in this vividly haunting story of religion and family dynamics.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: baptism, church, family, Fiction, God, religion, Short Stories

Preview of Amalie Smith’s Marble, translated by Jennifer Russell

5th November 20205th November 2020  Amalie Smith

Amalie Smith’s exciting new novel, Marble, sensuously intertwines the story and discoveries of its titular heroine with those of pioneering sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, who lived and worked 110 years earlier. In this preview, Marble reflects on Carl-Nielsen’s time in Athens and the new material reality open to her when separated from her lover.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Amalie Smith, ancient Greece, Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen, Artist, Carl-Nielsen, Greece, Jennifer Russell, Life in Languages, Lolli, Lolli Editions, Marble, sculpture, Translation

‘The Unreliable Translator’, an extract from Jen Calleja’s novel, The Islets

22nd October 202028th October 2020  Jen Calleja

Jen Calleja’s novel, The Islets, is a timely and daring exploration of xenophobia, cultural exploitation, historical suppression and amnesia, and the politics of literary translation. In this preview, ‘The Unreliable Translator’, the main character, Hester Heller, interviews a renowned translator, uncovering more about his work than she intended.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Jen Calleja, Life in Languages, Malta, The Islets, The Unreliable Translator, Translation

‘The Go-Get-Gone’ by Judy Darley

1st May 202017th May 2020  Judy Darley

Amanda is out for the night with her new school mate, Lea. But when her so-called friends – an assortment of symptoms from her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – turn up, she finds it hard to determine who and what is real.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fiction, Judy Darley, Night / Shift, nightclub culture, Nightclubs, Short Stories, Short Story, Teenagers, The Go-Get-Gone
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    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
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    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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