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‘All Cut Up’ by Mel Fawcett

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With its massive lion-claw feet and its huge bulk covered in worn brown leather, my mother’s old chair […]

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Literature Live: Vona Groarke and Katherine Angel

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We’re delighted to be presenting this event on Monday 6 February in partnership with the Centre for New […]

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‘Hero’ by Sophie Parkes

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  Today’s date had been circled on my calendar for weeks. It would be my first solo drive, […]

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‘But Is’ by Holly Aszkenasy

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After I dropped out of my PhD, I took the first job I was offered, because I needed […]

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The Real Story: LIVE! headlined by Amy Liptrot

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We are delighted to announce that we have confirmed the headliner for our next live show: Amy Liptrot, […]

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‘Psychiatric Ward, December 24th, 1985’ by Kate Jones

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  The room is filled with elderly women sitting in two rows of chairs facing one another. Silver […]

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‘Congealed’ by Clare Archibald

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It flows from inside you. Edgeless pools of blood that coat you, occasionally solidifying around your life, with […]

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Nonfiction writers wanted in Manchester

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Hey essayists, creative nonfictioneers, prose poets… we want to hear from you! If  you’re based in or near […]

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Ninjas of Nonfiction #6: Gay Talese by Benjamin Judge

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My wife has been ill. This essay was supposed to be finished days ago but my wife has […]

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