Cynan Jones

‘A pair of seagulls. I say a pair. They might just be good friends.’

Issue 137

Matilda Gustavsson

Issue 137

Lauren Hough

‘Our pasts are so unbelievable we need a witness for our own memory.’

Issue 137

Ken Follett

‘Every sect needs jargon. We did not have churches, we had halls; services were called meetings; the congregation was the assembly; elders were overseers’

Sarah Gerard

‘In Amway, there’s no such thing as contentment.’

Melissa Febos

‘In a country whose government we do not trust, who do we need more than writers and teachers? And what is more powerful than an inspired youth?’

Leslie Jamison

‘I feel afraid, and I do not know what to make of yesterday’s belief. I can see that belief like an object shimmering underwater, a kind of relic.’

Luiza Flynn-Goodlett

‘Syllables are excised by / X-Acto, fed into a shredder / for good measure.’

Andrew Michael Hurley

‘But while the nightjar sleeps,’ said the mole, ‘it dreams of what it used to be and still sees beyond what isn’t true. And so can we, if we choose to look.’

Eli Goldstone

‘I could do nothing but lie there, locked inside my body.’

Renee Gladman

‘I go here to slow everything down, to study shadow in a space of dreaming.’

Camilla Grudova

‘I felt intolerably miserable. There were posters everywhere reminding me I was Manless’

Melissa Febos

‘I don’t care if anyone is watching and that’s the point.’

Amelia Gray

‘The bag was full of fresh dogshit. The note attached read For my children and theirs.’