All Stories Mentorship – now open for applications
by Catherine Coe I’ve been a children’s book editor for twenty years, and a freelancer for the last ten. As well as working
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Jasbinder Bilan on winning the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition
I first heard about the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition while I was studying for the MA Creative Writing course where I wrote a
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A Suitable Watch? Asha Krishna reviews the BBC adaptation
When the BBC televised its first episode of A Suitable Boy, I recalled reading it as a 15-year-old but retained nothing except the
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Kia Abdullah: Why I set up Asian Booklist
by Kia Abdullah It started with a disastrous radio slot. I was invited onto a programme along with authors Nikesh Shukla, A A
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Book review: A Cure for a Crime by Roopa Farooki
The cover A Summary The Cure For a Crime is about the twins, Ali and Tulip, whose Mum has got a strange new
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Life in Prison: Time for a new point of view
by Farah Damji I helped to set up The View Magazine, a publication by and for women in the criminal justice system, with
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Review: The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan
by Leela Soma Set in South India, in the tiny cantonment of Nandagiri The Tainted by Cauvery Madhavan traces the lives of the
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Writing Flash Fiction
by Jude Higgins Flash fiction is a form of short short fiction that, in recent years, has been growing in popularity worldwide. To
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Review: Crossroads Festival, Saturday 5 October 2019
Rehearsal Room 1 of Leicester’s Curve Theatre has mirrored walls, free-standing doors, and a staircase to nowhere. An appropriate setting for the inaugural
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Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
‘Imagine building an observatory over St. Paul’s Cathedral?’ A provocative question posed by Amitav Ghosh at the National Book Festival, in D.C. Ghosh was replying
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