Writing Outside the Box

I'm trying out a new type of review for my blog - a whole novel review that will hopefully inspire you in your broader reading. Today I...

This week's reading is a flash fiction by Jose Louis Lucero from the literary magazine Mistake House. If you missed it, you can find it...

This week's short story is a piece by Erika Murdey. If you missed it, you can find it here: http://www.literaryjuice.com/pbj-sandwich-eri...

This week's reading is a short story by Robert McBrearty published in the Literary Juice magazine. If you missed it, you can find it...

This week's reading is a short story by Erini Katopodis. It has really interesting themes and I'd highly recommend you reading it before...

This week's reading is a short story by Blair Hurley. For the next two weeks we'll still be looking at short stories / flash fictions...

This week's reading is a short story by Amanda Ajamfar. It was published on the Paper Darts website - this is a great resource for...

This week we're looking at a great example of a flash fiction by Emily Devane. If you missed it, you can find it here:...

This week we were looking at a short piece by Mia Couto, if you missed it you can find it here: http://www.massreview.org/sites/default/f...

This week's reading is The Hunter's Wife by Anthony Doerr. If you missed it, you can find it here: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/a...

This week's reading is very short and comes again from the Bath Flash Fiction Awards. This piece is called The Undertakers' Jolly and is...

This week's reading focus was The Possibility of Evil by Shirley Jackson. Whilst it isn't as modern as the other pieces we've looked at...

I have talked about Meat by Terry Bisson a lot this week, and who could blame me? It's a fabulous piece of writing! You can find it here...

The flash fiction I put under weekly reading this week was the winner of the Bath Flash Fiction Awards in February 2018. You can find it...

I'm going to write a list of what longer novels I've been reading since starting this blog and some of the features of them. I will...