The Temptation of Pogo

. To mark National Short Story Day, here is a recording of The Temptation of Pogo by Guy Ware. A festive story, it’s a playful satire which follows the fortunes of Pogo, an imaginary friend who is manifested in the brain of his current client as a little fat boy in a sailor suit, an [...]

Reflections on Writing Short Stories

M Y Alam’s paper ‘Identity politics and the conditions of production: Reflections on writing Short Stories’, which he recently presented at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English, has been published on route-online.com Here is a small extract.

Margaret Atwood – Our Cat Enters Heaven

Margaret Atwood reads her story ‘Our Cat Enters Heaven’ at the 11th International Conference on the Short Story in English which took place in Atwood’s home town of Toronto.

Adult bedtime books don’t come much better than this

Review of The Route Book at Bedtime in The Big Issue in the North

Book at Bedtime Review

Cracking review for The Route Book at Bedtime from The Short Review

Rainbows Seen From the Air… By Sarah Butler

Sarah Butler reading her short story ‘Rainbows Seen From The Air Are Complete Circles’. Originally published in Wonderwall