The Big Issue

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Just as if you’re sad, you should listen to melancholy music, so in lockdown it can be a good idea to read stories of isolation and unhappiness. Autobiographical tales tell of Kavan’s poor relationship with her parents and husband, and her attraction

Writing Magazine

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Set aside any notions that the countryside is a place of rest and retreat in the novels of Andrew Michael Hurley. The author’s take on folk horror turns the British countryside into disquieting landscapes – harsh places where malevolent forces are bu

Haven Magazine

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Far from being tucked away in some quiet shed, the studio of artist Rachel Kiddie McClure occupies the front room of her Hamilton character bungalow. This allows her to work at home around other commitments, melding together domestic and creative lif

Denver Life Magazine

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In Downtown Denver’s Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, a striking, emerald chair stands on five legs. However, what looks like a quirky take on a standard furniture piece boasts a rich history. After discovering the authorless chair, the Kirk

Guardian Weekly

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The This by Adam Roberts Imagine a social media app implanted in the roof of the mouth for more immersive connectivity. This one small step turns out to be a giant leap in human evolution, a sort of telepathy that brings everyone together as parts of

Writing Magazine

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Melissa Oliver has won the RNA’s Joan Hessayon Award. Melissa’s debut, The Rebel Heiress and the Knight, was awarded the RNA’s £1,000 prize for new writers, which is given to a writer whose first novel has been completed after passing through the Rom

Marie Claire Australia

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(ROSLYN PACKER THEATRE, SYDNEY) A classic Oscar Wilde story with a twist, as actress Eryn-Jean Norvill shapeshifts between 26 characters in an incredible one-woman period drama. Now until May 7, rosylnpackertheatre.com.au. (SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, SYDNEY

New Idea

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Natalie Portman is reading Normal People by Sally Rooney. The award-winning novel is a portrait of Connell and Marianne’s relationship, from their life as teenagers in a small Irish town to when they move to Dublin for uni. ■

Woman & Home

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✢ Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 and 2010) The ups, downs, ins and outs of the Bellamy family and staff. ✢ The Barchester Chronicles (1982) An epic power struggle in a small English town. ✢ Jane Eyre (1983) Before he was James Bond, Timothy Dalton donned

Writing Magazine

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It’s fair to say that horror fiction as we know it today is a very broad church, with everything from the subtlety and nuance of the ghost story and psychological horror through to the ‘old favourites’ of the classic monsters and the far less subtle,

SFX

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RELEASED 30 JUNE 299 pages | Hardback/ebook Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia Publisher Del Rey There are shades of Daphne du Maurier in this twisty little gothic novel, which pits a young woman against the horrors of a crumbling ancestral home. Our heroin

Photo Review

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‘I became a chronically truant juvenile delinquent at a very early age,’ says Greg Semu. Fortunately, an understanding art teacher noticed how excited this sometime-student became when he was given a camera. ‘They gave us black and white film and tau

Literary Hub

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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray first appeared on June 20th, 1890, in the July issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, to major controversy and no small amount of hostility. According to Nicholas Frankel, editor of an annotated edition of th

Writing Magazine

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The shortlist has been announced for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2020, set up by Helen Lederer last year, for humorous work by women writers ‘Judging and managing the prize in lockdown was interesting - but we got there!’ said Helen. ‘The 2020 ti

Literary Hub

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This year, SP Books is publishing the original manuscript of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, originally submitted for publication in Lippincott’s Magazine in 1890. Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde’s grandson, worked closely with the publishers

BBC Music Magazine

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The BBC presents a major new cultural history of the British Isles, exploring how various significant works of music, art, literature and design have helped create and shape our creative history. The eight-part series will air in April on BBC Two and

Writing Magazine

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US-based TouchPoint Press publishes across genres and styles. They currently seek short stories for two anthologies and novels for the international section of the Love Abroad romance series. The romance imprint is a clean series for all types of rom

Lens Magazine

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"Fine Art Photography isn't just about pressing the shutter button. It is about turning yourself inside out, visualizing both beautiful and socially critical topics, and making the previously unseen visible. It is also about repealing the laws of nat

India Today

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Turning page after page of Moving Focus, a compendium on Indian art edited by Mumbai gallerist Mortimer Chatterjee, one hopes that there would be a parallel universe in which the two volumes would serve as guidebooks for an actual public collection o

Writing Magazine

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Black Lawrence Press is a US indie publishing contemporary poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The editorial team find their authors through annual contests and open reading periods. They seek ‘innovative, electrifying, and thoroughly intoxicat

Literary Hub

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One of the great things about writing (and reading) is that it allows me to briefly become someone who, in real life, I will never be. I’m not a painter or a photographer, but I am fascinated by those people because they have a superpower that will f

Writing Magazine

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The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2022 is inviting entries on this years’ theme, which is ‘Freedom’, with the chance to win a £10,000 first prize. Submissions for the annual, international Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize may be prose, poetry or non

Writing Magazine

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Pressed Clover Books is a new indie determined to publish lots of books with happy endings. They love romance and are looking for more, especially stories which show ‘how love really can and does transform this big, beautiful, world’. Submit by email

Attitude Magazine

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For Spring/Summer 2022, Edward Crutchley has taken inspiration from the intersection of queerness and Gothic themes. A particular focus is the treatment of the queer body in society as portrayed in Gothic literature, with themes of the outsider drawn

Aperture

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John Edmonds’s first encounter with visual art was by way of religious iconography. No surprise, then, that his portraits of Black strangers, lovers, and friends so often come cocooned in a beatific light. Whether employing the vivid silk of a durag

House and Leisure

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His was a resonant and unrepentant creativity that created pathways for greater equality in art and design. Virgil Abloh is one of those rare humans that really did change the world. With near supernatural optimism and grace, he uplifted everyone in

Writing Magazine

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Ghost Orchid Press is a new independent publisher of horror, gothic, and supernatural fiction based in Cambridgeshire. The editorial team is keen on ‘championing new and emerging authors in these increasingly popular, versatile genres’, believing ind

Writing Magazine

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It will soon be St Valentine’s Day, so I decided to check out the Romantic Novelists’ Association and find out about the state of romantic fiction in 2020. Luckily the current chair, Alison May, was happy to chat to me. ‘The RNA is sixty years old th

Writing Magazine

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The team at The Writer’s Block are looking for short stories for an anthology for YA and NA readers but you’ll have to write fast: the deadline is 10 March. Aesthetic: A Dark Academia Anthology is to be published as an Amazon ebook and print version.