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10:00 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 1, Issues, reviews
Desire and Madness – a collected anthology from Gloucestershire University’s creative writing students.
Desire and Madness is a simple enough premise – and as themes go, its pretty well represented throughout the works of a diverse range of students. Eighteen separate, and sometimes disparate, yet compelling voices that cover prose, poetry, and one rather interestingly vignette style novella. As the introduction states, in 2005, the final short story submissions for the term, on the fiction course was ‘Desire and Madness’, as chosen by those students and was later extended to the creative writing department as a whole, and the anthology was born. From a modern retelling of Hamlet, to flash fiction, to modern and traditional poetry, the anthology, though relatively slim, holds a lot of interesting and riveting writing. (more…)
7:00 am by D Kai Wilson, editor in Issue 1, Issues, reviews
Review – Blood
Blood, by Nigel McLoughlin is beyond words. Moving, deeply riveting, and most of all standing as both a marker (for lessons learned, in discussion of terrorism through poetry) and inspiration. (more…)
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Winter is always an interesting proposition for writers. Some of us slow down, cause our bodies decide to act on some primeval body clock. We feel like we’re hibernating, and so we slow down.
Others have just come off the frentic pace of the Nanowrimo, and need a break - so slow to a crawl. And [...]
Desire and Madness – a collected anthology from Gloucestershire University’s creative writing students.
Desire and Madness is a simple enough premise – and as themes go, its pretty well represented throughout the works of a diverse range of students. Eighteen separate, and sometimes disparate, yet compelling voices that cover prose, poetry, and one rather interestingly [...]
Review – Blood
Blood, by Nigel McLoughlin is beyond words. Moving, deeply riveting, and most of all standing as both a marker (for lessons learned, in discussion of terrorism through poetry) and inspiration.
You know, no matter how often I install Wordpress, the ‘hello world’ post always makes it ok.
Hiya - my name is Kai - and I’m the managing editor of this project. Over the coming few weeks, between preparing for university, I’ll be expanding on the information that’s available, but for the moment, welcome to the [...]
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