Recent debates have highlighted a need for greater diversity within the UK’s literary landscape. What is less settled however, are questions concerning the representation of BAME characters in literary texts. Debate has […]
As a teenager I once attended a voluntary lecture given by one of my English teachers that asked one question: ‘are comic books literature?’ I went in expecting Mr Novell (who often […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Finley Harnett It’s alleged that President Abraham Lincoln, when he met Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, remarked: ‘So, you’re the little woman who wrote the book […]
A Harry Potter store on the York Shambles, a street said to have inspired Diagon Alley. Chloe Harvey The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction defines ‘world building’ as ‘The creation of an […]
Katie Houston Of all of the motivational speeches we have listened to over the years, of all of the sage advice from our elders – parents, teachers, over-enthusiastic strangers – we are […]
So, you’ve read Rupi Kaur – here’s who you should be reading next. Rosie Featherstone Rupi Kaur has been described by many as a publishing phenomenon, and rightly so. Her poems, initially […]
I met the poet Joseph Marinus in front of a graffiti portrait of William Shakespeare. He sits on a foldable garden chair in front of a frayed blanket laden with multi-coloured A-5 […]
thestray.org 