Cath Barton – Sabotage

Collection Flash Short Stories

How The Light Gets In by Clare Fisher

August 29, 2019September 2, 2019 Phil Olsen Cath Barton, Clare Fisher, Edge Hill Prize, Edge Hill Short Story Prize, Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2019, Edge Hill short Story Prize Longlist, flash fiction, Influx, Influx Press, short stories

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- In physical terms light brings energy, and darkness is the absence of light. So it makes

Collection Flash Short Stories

Soul Etchings by Sandra Arnold

August 6, 2019 Phil Olsen Cath Barton, Retreat West, Sandra Arnold

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- New Zealand author Sandra Arnold is a prolific writer of flash fiction, with over 80 pieces

Chapbook Pamphlets Place Writing Poetry Short Stories

Peterborough Service Area by Krishan Coupland and Eloise Shepherd

June 24, 2019 Phil Olsen Cath Barton, Eloise Shepherd, Krishan Coupland, Peterborough, travel

– Reviewed by Cath Barton – The more I try and pin down the notion of liminality, the more it

Collection Flash Short Stories

A Witness of Waxwings by Alison Lock

May 13, 2019 Phil Olsen Alison Lock, Cath Barton, stories, the sea

– Reviewed by Cath Barton – There are elemental forces writ large in Alison Lock’s collection of short stories, especially

Collection Flash Novella Short Stories

Finding a Way by Diane Simmons

April 9, 2019April 10, 2019 Phil Olsen Cath Barton, Diane Simmons, Finding a Way, Grief, Interlinked

– Reviewed by Cath Barton – From Liz sorting through jewellery intended for her daughter Becky to inherit, to the

Collection Short Stories

Ritual, 1969 by Jo Mazelis

March 5, 2017May 1, 2017 dj4twinx Cath Barton, Jo Mazelis, Ritual 1969, Seren Books

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- A modern school built ‘in the brutalist style’ sits on the top of a hill. On

Seasonal/End of year

Sabotage Reviews’ End of Year Critic’s Choice 2016

December 3, 2016August 25, 2017 Editor A.K Blakemore, Abi Palmer, Andrew Walton, Bang Said the Gun!, Being Dad: Short Stories About Fatherhood, Ben Norris, Beyonce, Burning Eye Books, Caleb Femi, Cath Barton, Charley Barnes, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Claire Trévien, Clinic, Dan Holloway, David Attwooll, Denise Riley, Edwina Attlee, Emily Dickinson, Fay Roberts, Galley Beggar Press, Genna Gardini, Geraldine Clarkson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hammer and Tongue, Hel Gurney, Helen ivory, Hollie McNish, James Clammer, Jemima Foxtrot, John McCullough, Jules Laforgue, Katie Griffiths, Leah Umansky, Lucy Ingrams, Lydia Towsey, Maria Ferguson, Maureen Cullen, Mina Loy, Nikesh Shukla, Nine Arches Press, Poetry London, Rialto, Richard Scott, Richard T. Watson, Saboteur Awards, Sally Jack, Sarah Howe, Soloman O.B., Stéphane Mallarmé, Stevie Smith, T. S. Eliot, Tania Hershman, The Mechanisms, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Unthology, Unthology 8, Vahni Capildeo, Vanessa Kisuule, Warsan Shire

It’s that time of year again when reviewers and editors look back on this year’s publications and performances and share

The Numbers by Christopher Burns & Jackdaws by Neil Campbell

November 13, 2016November 13, 2016 dj4twinx Alfred Hitchcock, Cath Barton, Christopher Burns, Jackdaws, neil-campbell, Nicholas Royle, Nightjar Press, The Numbers

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Nightjar Press publishes single-story chapbooks in limited editions of 200 copies. Elusive, like the bird of

Collection Short Stories

Shore to Shore: River Stories by Tamsin Hopkins

October 14, 2016October 16, 2016 dj4twinx Cath Barton, Cinnamon Press, Shore to Shore: River Stories, Tamsin Hopkins

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Hani is a hot-air balloon pilot, but not in a setting or situation which most of

Fugue Vol. II by The Siren Press

July 1, 2015August 4, 2015 dj4twinx Alyson Hallett, Brandon Robshaw, Cath Barton, Catherine McNamara, Clare Fisher, Darren Lee, Fugue Volume II, Sally Oliver, The Siren

-Reviewed by Cath Barton- Writers of short stories have the wonderful freedom to give them any ending they like. They