An Alternative Writing Retreat
I’d spent too many hours at the wheel, racing the December dusk to get to our destination before darkness fell. Too many hours scrutinising every junction, traffic lane and sign, of passing through new places and barely seeing them…
“Crystal Palace Park still carries the name of something that is no longer there, a building of plate glass and iron from the high Victorian age…”
And then you realise that everyone around you – a crowd of thousands, all along the quays – are almost completely silent. There’s no wind, no rain, no massive heat from the fire, nothing, like everything else on earth has stopped…
We’re excited to be able to nominate a few of our wonderful writers for a Pushcart Prize this year. The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses (published every year since 1976) collects together the best essays, poetry, and fiction published in the small press…
Journalist Mackenzie Weinger travels in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy, through the partly real, partly dream-country that inspired his fiction…
Trump Tower is a unique cross between a shopping mall and a shrine. We wandered past the heavily-armed security guards into the public areas of the building…
“I’ve kept on being aware of sky since I lived in Norfolk. Up at Ivinghoe Beacon sky is paramount. Everything around you bleeds into it…”
Gaynor Jones participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about making the complex simple, Alton Towers memories, and how fear becomes creativity.
Claire Fuller participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about abandoned structures, sculpting, and how her writing career began…
Julia Deakin participated in the Alton Towers Residency in April 2019. We spoke to her about landscapes, writing poetry, and her connections to Alton Towers…