You leave them dancing and sneak away. Everything has been said that can be said. You’re never going to forget each other. You’ll always be friends…
Pull of Distance
Tag: Writing Retreat
Power Stations of the Mind
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…
The Park Where There Used to Be a Palace
“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…”
Notre Dame de Paris
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…
Our 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominations
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…
Travelling in the Footsteps of Thomas Hardy
Journalist Mackenzie Weinger travels in the footsteps of Thomas Hardy, through the partly real, partly dream-country that inspired his fiction…
A Visit to Trump Tower
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…
At Ivinghoe Beacon
“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…”