It’s been a week of counting up the shortlists! Once again, it’s an absolute delight to see the excitement and
It’s been a week of counting up the shortlists! Once again, it’s an absolute delight to see the excitement and
– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory
-Reviewed by Emma Lee- This Lexia & Other Languages starts by exploring dyslexia through a mother’s perspective of a dyslexic
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-Reviewed by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig- How does one start a conversation about what it means to be chronically ill, to
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—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— What Are You Like (Postbox Press) is a collection of short stories from author Shelley Day.
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—Reviewed by Sally Shaw— It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s (Myriad Editions, 2019) is a collection of twenty short stories
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—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— In her debut collection Paris Syndrome (Banshee Press), author Lucy Sweeny Byrne pierces the glamour bubble
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—Reviewed by Mikiko Fukuda— Transnationalism and tourism have allowed people greater freedom of movement—both to travel and emigrate. Elleke Boehmer
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—Reviewed by Jenny Booth— The stories in Amanda O’Callaghan’s debut short fiction collection, This Taste for Silence (University of Queensland
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—Reviewed by Sam Edwards— You might have noticed that the world’s been turned on its head. Everyone’s scared, myself included.
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-Reviewed by Stephen Payne- A tenter is a person who stretches cloth, or the framework on which the fabric is
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-Reviewed by Grace Atkinson- Written in memory of her mother, who died of motor neurone disease in 2012, Siofra McSherry’s Requiem guides
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