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