by Kate Birch | Aug 1, 2016 | Interviews, Prose & Poetry
Iona i The losing of faith isn’t easy. So many years and words – times you’ve sat, half-drunk on divinity or cider, arguing the case, cases, offered prayer, wisdom, verses – it gathers in crooks, fills in where bits of you are absent. After service when all...
by Kate Birch | Aug 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Almost all of the selections on our shortlist for July’s ‘Pick of the Month’ have a melancholy, contemplative tone that stands in contrast to the agitated times we live in and is perhaps a response, conscious or not, to these on our part and that of our...
by Kate Birch | Jul 15, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks
Huge congratulations to Rose Mary Boehm whose poem ‘We didn’t know we were poor’ emerged as IST’s ‘Pick of the Month’ for June 2016, beating the runner up by a single vote. Rose is the author of Tangents (published in the UK in 2011). She...
by Kate Birch | Jul 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
From Japan to Peru via the Abellio Greater Anglia train to London Liverpool Street with stops at heaven and the back garden, our shortlist for June’s Pick of the Month – your favourite poem or work of flash fiction – is what you might call diverse....
by Kate Birch | Jun 28, 2016 | UEA FLY Festival
We are never disappointed by the 11-14 yrs entries for the Short Story Competition at the UEA FLY Festival and this year was no different. How do you make a decision when the imagination of these kids seems to have no bounds taking them back into history, forward into...
