Skating on the Vertical and Other Stories by Jan English Leary
– Reviewed by Chloë Moloney – I’ve read about comets, how ancient civilizations saw them as the portent of danger,
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Writing on Water by Maggie Harris
– Reviewed by Jenny Booth – What do migrants from the global south, troubled families dodging social workers, and menopausal
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Assumptions We Might Make About The Postworld by Katharine Haake
– Reviewed by Cherry Potts – This is an odd little book, full of catastrophes accepted without question, and characters
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Gold Adornments and Other Stories by Emma Kittle-Pey
– Reviewed by Cherry Potts – This is the slenderest of slender collections, only eleven stories, although one of those
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Brief Instructions by Paul Luikart
-Reviewed by Scott Manley Hadley– Brief Instructions (Ghostbird Press, 2017) is a collection of eighteen pieces of flash fiction by
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15 Minutes by Erinna Mettler
-Reviewed by Edward Rowe- One thing I know about 15 Minutes is that the stories were not written in fifteen
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Stablemates (Rosie Garland, Jackie Hagan, Henry Normal with Jill Abram, Waterstones, Birmingham, 18 Oct 2017)
reviewed by Sally Jack Created and hosted by poet Jill Abram, Stablemates is a regular monthly spoken word night where three
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The Chemist’s House by Jude Higgins
– Reviewed by Cherry Potts – Jude Higgins has created a particular rendition of the universal experience of childhood and
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Sleepers Awake by Tree Riesener
– Reviewed by Jenny Booth – Sleepers Awake is the debut short story collection by Tree Riesener, also a published
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First fox by Leanne Radojkovich
-Reviewed by Siobhan Denton– It is to Leanne Radojkovich’s credit, and unfortunately her detriment, that in reading First fox I
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