We’re pleased to announce the third live edition of The Real Story will feature headliner Michael Symmons Roberts: […]
live readings
Come hear five writers read thrilling stories from real life at Manchester’s live creative nonfiction night. The headliner for […]
To whet your appetite for our first reading event, here’s a new essay by Adam Farrer, ‘The Lump’. […]
Come hear five writers read thrilling stories from real life at Manchester’s first live creative nonfiction night. Our […]
Hey essayists, creative nonfictioneers, prose poets… we want to hear from you! If you’re based in or near […]
Photo by Ian Turk via Flickr Short nonfiction from Danielle Peet: — She started as a whisper in […]
This week, short nonfiction from Sarah Handyside. Image courtesy of the author. — Somewhere south a man asked […]
The Real Story 2011 competition We invited people to submit unpublished personal essays or brief memoirs of 2000 […]
Several years ago, I was standing in the market place of the small South Lincolnshire town where I was born and grew up. It was Thursday, market day, though it was no longer possible for a relaxed sociable crowd to meander through the stalls.
I saw a flash. It was the metal of a knife. The biggest blade I’d ever seen in […]