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Tag: Fiction

Miscarry by Kerry Byrne

23rd June 202223rd June 2022  Kerry Byrne

A recurring dream featuring supermarket cheese aisles and knitting nurses circles around the same persistent question and painful realisation in Kerry Byrne’s tautly written and moving short fiction, ‘Miscarry’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: Fiction, Flash Fiction, Kerry Byrne, Miscarriage, My Body's Bodies Editorial, pregnancy

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

20th June 202223rd June 2022  Rebecca Clark

In her captivating novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield tenderly and credibly depicts the pain of absence, loss and transformation often experienced in romantic relationships.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Julia Armfield, Novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, Rebecca Clark, Salt Slow

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

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf

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

Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the liminal space between possibility and inevitability

2nd September 20212nd September 2021  Jennifer Brough

The first English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s darkly humorous dystopias packs a punky, prescient punch.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Japanese literature, Jennifer Brough, short fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Speculative literature, Surrealism, translated fiction, Translation, Verso, Verso Fiction

Assembly by Natasha Brown

25th August 202125th August 2021  Lisa Goodrum

Natasha Brown’s powerful, deftly written debut explodes neoliberal myths of meritocratic success and reveals the stark reality faced by young Black women when attempting to make it to the top.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Assembly, debut, Fiction, Lisa Goodrum, Natasha Brown, Novel, Review

Interview with award-winning author Catherine McNamara: ‘I wanted to write about love, in different forms, different lives and different times of our lives too’

26th July 202126th July 2021  Suzannah Ball

Our writer Suzannah Ball talks to award-winning author, Litro editor and mentor, Catherine McNamara about her latest collection of flash fiction, the differences between flash and the short story form, and how travel and migration have influenced her work.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Catherine McNamara, Creative Writing, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Interview, love, Love Stories for Hectic People, Reflex Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Short Story, The Cartography of Others, writing

Hailman by Leanne Radojkovich

19th July 2021  Rym Kechacha

Leanne Radojkovich’s latest collection of fiction, Hailman, is filled with startling images that linger in the mind and encourage you to excavate its mysterious, dream-like prose, writes our contributor Rym Kechacha.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Fiction, Hailman, Leanne Radojkovich, Rym Kechacha, Short Stories, The Emma Press

Love Stories for Hectic People by Catherine McNamara

14th June 2021  Suzannah Ball

In her award-winning third collection of fiction, Love Stories for Hectic People, Catherine McNamara explores love in its violent, obsessive and erotically complex forms, writes Suzannah Ball.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books, Catherine McNamara, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Italy, love stories, Love Stories for Hectic People, Reflex Press, romance, Short Stories, Unbound Press

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge: surreal and bizarrely beautiful

31st May 202131st May 2021  Yen Ooi

Yan Ge’s novel, translated by Jeremy Tiang, is a fantastical exploration of life, love, relationships, and the beast-like nature of humans.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books in translation, Fiction, Jeremy Tiang, Strange Beasts of China, Tilted Axis Press, Yan Ge

‘On Toast Crumbs’ by Rachel Sills

29th April 202129th April 2021  Rachel Sills

A new mother feels her world contract down to the daily domestic rituals of cooking, cleaning and care-giving in Rachel Sills’ haunting flash fiction, ‘On Toast Crumbs’.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash FictionTagged: caregivers, children, Fiction, Flash Fiction, Mental Health, mental wellbeing, Motherhood, mothers

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