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Notes on Craft
Juliet Jacques
Juliet Jacques on writing her trans and non-binary characters into being.
In the Aftermath
Eva Freeman
‘Green would work but blue, cobalt blue to be precise, would be better.’
Fiction set in Flatbush by Eva Freeman.
Tides
Sara Freeman
‘She has always wanted this: to slip beneath the surface, to dispossess herself.’
An extract from Sara Freeman’s forthcoming novel.
Traces
Ruchir Joshi
‘Calcutta is an hourglass and each person is a grain of sand. Each day, we all pour through the opening.’
Photographs and memoir by Ruchir Joshi.
Fire and Ice
Debra Gwartney
‘The rental house is where he would die.’
Debra Gwartney on the last days of Barry Lopez.
Notes on Craft
Oli Hazzard
Poet Oli Hazzard on writing his debut novel Lorem Ipsum, which is made up of one single 50,000-word sentence.
Fertile Soil
Katerina Gibson
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific region.
Turnstones
Carol Farrelly
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize from the region of Canada and Europe.
The Woman in the Purple Skirt
Natsuko Imamura
An excerpt from The Woman in the Purple Skirt, which won the 2019 Akutagawa Prize.
