Blog Archive

Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…

Year end GIVEAWAY!

Year end GIVEAWAY! 19th December 2021

Giveaway. We are delighted to round off 2021 with the chance of winning 3 book bundles, each containing a copy of: The Miner’s Lass and Murder at the Seaview Hotel, both by Glenda Young and both set in Northern England...

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2021 ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition – the winners!

2021 ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition – the winners! 18th December 2021

2021 ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition – the winners! The judges – Victoria Hislop, Rosanna Ley, Katharina Bielenberg (publisher at MacLehose Press), and Tina Hartas (founder of TripFiction) – have completed their deliberations. They congratulate all entrants on...

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‘October, 1940’ by Vicky Grut – first prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021

‘October, 1940’ by Vicky Grut – first prize winner in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021 18th December 2021

Vicky Grut’s short story collection ‘Live Show, Drink Included’ was published by Holland Park Press in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2019. One of her stories was included in Salt’s Best British Short Stories 2019. She...

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‘The Pigeon Wallah’ by Anita Goodfellow – runner up in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021

‘The Pigeon Wallah’ by Anita Goodfellow – runner up in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021 18th December 2021

  Anita Goodfellow has an MA in creative writing from Bath Spa University. She divides her time between the UK and France. Her stories have been placed and shortlisted in writing competitions and published in various anthologies. Her first...

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‘The Violence of Snowflakes’ by Louise Mangos – third prize in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021

‘The Violence of Snowflakes’ by Louise Mangos – third prize in our ‘Sense of Place’ Creative Writing Competition 2021 18th December 2021

Louise has packed, peddled and paddled the world, writing novels, short stories and flash fiction along the way. Her next novel,’The Beaten Track’ from Red Dog Press, is her most ambitious suspense novel to date with multiple locations in...

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