This Was Your Mother

A chat with Corinna Board about her poetry pamphlet, ‘Arboreal’ (Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) How would you describe the pamphlet in one...

A chat with Karen Pierce Gonzalez about her chapbook, ‘Coyote in the Basket of my Ribs’ (Kelsay Books, 2023) What a title! How did you...

A chat with Mandira Pattnaik about her book Where We Set Our Easel 'Where We Set Our Easel' is a micro collection of 11 prose pieces. The...

If you had to describe your novel ‘Missing’ (published 2023) in one sentence, how would you do so? Oh wow! Erm, that’s a tough one! I...

A chat with Cath Barton about her novella-in-flash, The Geography of the Heart (Arroyo Seco Press, 2023) At the heart of this story is...

A chat with Giselle Leeb about her short story collection, 'Mammals, I Think We Are Called' (Salt Publishing, 2022) This is such a...

A chat with Gail Aldwin about her book, ‘The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell’ (Bloodhound Books, 2023) If you were asked to describe ‘The...

Philip Arneill is a Belfast-born writer, photographer and researcher. Co-creator of the ‘Tokyo Jazz Joints’ audio-visual documentary...

Roger Waldron thinks he lives on the edge of razzmatazz when in reality he lives in Sheffield and has travelled. He has had a job. His...

Tim Stretton has published seven novels, with three more scheduled for publication. He writes crime as T. M. Stretton , and fantasy and...

Peter J Donnelly lives in York and has a degree in English Literature plus a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales Lampeter....

'Splashing Pink’ is a conversation-in-poems between Annie Cowell and me about our experiences of motherhood across the generations,...

Roger DeBlanck is the author of seven books: four novels and three works of poetry and nonfiction. He has a bachelor’s degree in English...

Martha Lane is a writer by the sea. She writes extensively about grief, love, and all things unrequited. Many of her stories can be read...

Julie Stevens writes poems that cover many themes, but often engages with the problems of disability. She is widely published in places...

Caroljean Gavin’s latest book is Caught in the Throat (Alien Buddha Press). Her work also appears in places such as Milk Candy Review,...

Elizabeth Barton is an artist and poet from New Zealand, featured in numerous online and printed journals, including Fevers of the Mind,...

Andrew Harrowell is a multi-genre writer, who has so far covered mythology, whodunits and horror. His first novel light heartedly asks...

Julie Maxwell is a novelist and literary critic. Her debut novel You Can Live Forever (Jonathan Cape) won a Betty Trask Award and was...

After studying at Oxford (BA), York (MA) and Brunel (PGCE), Valerie Jack taught English and Classical Civilisation for 12 years,...