The Newcastle Poetry Prize, one of the country's most prestigious and important awards, is always...

On the river whose far bank is unknowablethere's a boat with your name on it.The water birds stan...

'To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.' - Friedrich Nietzsch...

2020 Newcastle Short Story Award Winner: Bird Swing by Ursula Robinson-Shaw From the judges:We ha...

It will remain the single most devastating day of my life.But without the helpers, it would have ...

We conjure a lot of fantastical scenarios within The Story Hunters.Fairy rings, zombie holocausts...

I think about the times that people couldn't look me in the eye because I reminded them of someon...

Saying goodbye at the airport, trying to understand suicide, loss of a baby, loss of a job . . . ...

A father struggles to protect his children from the horrors of an alien apocalypse, an important ...

'To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.' - Friedrich Nietzsch...

I wanted to know. 'Why are its eyes open if he's asleep?''Because he's sleeping much deeper than ...

There are times when I worry the hurt will never leave. The only thing that scares me more is per...