The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages

Looking for a quicker read? Pandemic playing havoc with attention span?

43 of the Most Iconic Short Stories in the English Language

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Ingleton Falls

It's nice enough, if you like your waterfalls

National Flash Fiction Day 2020

Save the date! This year’s National Flash Fiction Day (NFFD) will take place on Saturday 6th June, with a list of activities designed to showcase the best in flash fiction […]

The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge.

From The New Yorker: Karl Ove Knausgaard lays out the […]

The 100 Novels That Shaped Our World (According to the BBC…)

  Well, here’s an interesting list, courtesy of BBC Arts. […]

Fast Flash Workshop – Kathy Fish

Just finished a hugely enjoyable 10 day Fast Flash workshop with  @kathyfish (and a guest appearance from @megiddings) plus a group of great writers. It was a lot of fun […]

The 10 Best Short Story Collections Of The Decade

  With only two months of the decade remaining, here’s […]

Give It ten Years And AI Will Be Posting This For You

With the release of OpenAI’s GPT-2 – a sophisticated text […]

happy new year

Lancet Liver Parasite A creature which spends its entire adult life inside a cow’s liver. After mating, its eggs are excreted into the cow’s faeces, where snails, who like to […]

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas and all that, such a pleasant time of the year and naturally, a time to reflect a little. With that in mind, looking back over 2017, three stories […]