Of Mice and Men: the Short Fiction of John Steinbeck
Reading Time: 15 minutes In the Penguin compilation volume, The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (2009 [1953]), the...
Non-Fiction
Alles Kaputt! Mary Postgate Revisited, by Mike Smith
Reading Time: 6 minutes It could be that one of the greatest obstacles to overcome when reading Kipling’s...
What Makes a Winning Flash Fiction? by Emily Devane
Reading Time: 5 minutes How To Write Winning Flash Fiction What makes winning flash fiction? There’s no single...
Departure from the Motherland, by Linda Collins
Reading Time: 13 minutes I’m making a pasta dish, something I did when I was a mother of...
Saturday Mornings Belong to Mr Blue, by Kenna Lee Edler
Reading Time: 8 minutes Every Saturday morning the ones living in containers flocked out from their metallic rectangular...
Short Story Review: ‘Come, Let Us Sing Anyway’ by Leone Ross
Reading Time: 4 minutes Review by Janet H Swinney Paperback: 226 pages Publisher: Peepal Tree Press (June 2017)...
Creative Non-Fiction: ‘Head Smash’ by Lara Newson
Reading Time: 14 minutes In a pot in my bedside cabinet are fragments of skull. My skull. Shards...
On Writing Historical Flash Fiction (Part II), by Sophie Van LLewyn
Reading Time: 8 minutes This essay is the sixth and final in this series by Sophie Van Llewyn....
On Writing Historical Flash Fiction (Part I), by Sophie Van Llewyn
Reading Time: 13 minutes This essay is the fifth in this series by Sophie Van Llewyn. Read her...