by Lucy Middleton This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most prestigious literary accolades: The Man Booker Prize. The prize was set up in 1968 as a strategy to salvage […]
50 Years of The Man Booker Prize
Much Ado About Rapping
by Lauren Cole Bashy x Akala, Richard II – ‘Being So Great’, Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, SBTV. What if we could experience brand-spanking new Shakespearean-style verse on a daily basis? Well, it’s closer […]
The Literary Art of the Lonely Heart
Let’s look at Personal Ads differently. Not as despondent pleas full of acronyms and cliches, but as literature, tiny poems. Look at them as the entirety of a person and everything they […]
Instagram Book Clubs: Social Media’s Utopia
by Holly Lawley In an online world that increasingly engages us in fiery yet futile debates, are Instagram book clubs the perfect antidote? These social media utopias inspire members to share their […]
Reading Blind
by Eleanor Collins It is time to “see differently” when it comes to the ebook – not as literature’s villain, but as the people’s hero. When attacking the ebook many cite the physical and […]
Embracing Explicit Literature: Sex, Drugs and Everything We Need to Talk About
by Rachel Cameron-Potter “I’m always embarrassed to include things, but I write them down thinking I will never publish them and then after about a day they don’t embarrass me anymore. It’s the […]
Animating a Digitised World
by Lizzy Holling A caravan in the York Museum Gardens collected electrical activity firing in people’s brains to produce one of 18 billion possible stories. This was the screening site of The Moment, […]
Banksy on Brexit
by Lauren Cole Banksy, Instagram, January 2018, UK. The March 2019 deadline for the UK leaving the EU is looming. Politicians, celebrities and everyday folk alike debate the pros and cons of […]
Whose book is it anyway?
A discussion on modern publishing with FEM Press founder Georgia Mitchell. When she came across poetry collective 4 BROWN GIRLS WHO WRITE, Georgia knew she’d found what she was looking for. She […]
Think Pink, Think Feminism
by Holly Lawley Is your bookshelf tickled pink by feminist literature? For feminism, pink is more than just a phase. Described as a “spectacular contradiction” by Alice Bucknell, pink paradoxically empowers and […]
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