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Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
By Nadia Henderson
Read Foxglove from Nadia Henderson's collection Tools for Surviving the Storm. This incisive short story explores how mother's debilitating fear turns to obsession. Read More
2 weeks ago
By Dilly Attygalle
Eternal Optimist is about finding joy in the outside world again after a period of being secluded written post pandemic. Read More
3 months ago
By Maria Ilona Moore
Maria Ilona Moore's non-fiction piece Aprikosen, Marillen, where she explores her family's history, nostalgia and duality of homemade apricot jam. Read More
3 months ago
Ilisha Thiru Purcell imagines what it would be like to talk to her 18 year old self and to tell her about all the pleasure she is yet to experience. Read More
4 months ago
By Courtney Burk
Courtney Burk's poem explores the end of a pleasurable day where the speaker realises her own mortality against the backdrop of classical mythology Read More
4 months ago
By Sara Sherwood
Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More
4 months ago
By Safa Maryam
In Pub Crawl, the narrator finds herself in a familiar setting and situation. This time, however, she is years older and a little wiser to the rose-tinted and romanticised view she had of the same scene and circumstances she stood in so many times before, when she was just nineteen and in love. Read More
7 months ago
By Sophie Titcomb
Sophie Titcomb's non-fiction piece charts her experience of gradual knowing; of my body and heart knowing better than she did how to love and care for her son, while she was still adjusting to (and in some ways, struggling with) the concept of being a mother. Read More
7 months ago
By Briony Bunker
Briony's poem explores the wisdom gained from having a baby - the truths that confound expectations and the secret, unspoken club you join with other parents. Read More
7 months ago
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