“Dystopian, anarchic, witty, subversive – a Nick Black story is instantly recognisable and never to be forgotten. This collection of his flash fiction zings with energy and knife-sharp voices that both disturb and disarm, but there is also a haunting gentleness that will linger with you long after you put the book down.

The Women’s Prize Trust has just launched DISCOVERIES 27. This is a writing competition for unagented and unpublished women writers in the UK and Ireland. Submit the first 10,000 words of a novel f…

by Jan Stinchcomb...After the rupture your parents become great storytellers, but they only want to talk about each other. As you get older, the stories mutate into tall tales.

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I had always ignored my anguished mental state or tried to push it aside, and CBT didn’t work for me – then one song seemed to articulate my pain

Flash Fiction: Rusty the Crab

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