The dealine for our open submission guidelines passed on 31 August and the photo above is what we came back to after our summer holidays. If you sent in a ...

Some Girls’ Mothers played to a packed house at Hebden Bridge Town Hall on Sunday 1 August. Here are a few photographs. To see more, please visit the Some Girls’ ...

Trailer for Michael Nath’s novel La Rochelle. (2:38) A one take shot of Michael walking down Love Lane, Pontefract. We only had fifteen minutes to film it as we had ...

Michael Nath reads from his novel La Rochelle. Mark goes out shooting in the Devon countryside with Frank Whitby and the regulars from the Henry IVth, an activity he declares ...

M Y Alam‘s paper ‘Identity politics and the conditions of production: Reflections on writing Short Stories’, which he recently presented at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in ...

Professor of the absurd Peter Mortimer discusses the social and political resonance of the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty in this satirical paper presented at an impromptu fringe session of the ...

Margaret Atwood was the headline guest reader at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English which took place in Atwood’s home town of Toronto last week. As ...

Booktunes is a new website we feel is worthy of your attention. It is an infant idea of Erik de Loor of Amsterdam, and it makes the link between books ...

Rebecca O’Brien, Paul Laverty, Ken Loach and Mark Womack discuss the film Route Irish. From the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. (46.20) ...

A recounting of the famous incident in which Amadou and Mariam came into contact with their now long time manager, Marc Antopine Moreu. This extract is taken from a feature ...

A review of Ian Clayton’s Bringing It All Back Home by Gary McMahon Bringing It All Back Home, by Ian Clayton (Route publishing), is a beautiful lark that becomes profound so ...

Ian Clayton and Friends perform a medley of Jimmy Reed songs on the occasion of Ian’s fiftieth birthday party. Ian’s band includes two blues men, a club turn on bass, ...

Ramón Chao talks about the time he inadvertently got high on marijuana cakes at a party in Bogotá, much to the embarrassment of his son Manu. ...

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Some Girls’ Mothers are back on tour and the book is now available in paperback, eBook and audio book. ‘Touching, wounding and humbling.’ – Simon Armitage Wednesday 9th June Lancaster Literature Festival The Storey ...