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Our Story of the Week is a death row story from the writer Jim Bartlett. Jim was born in California and spent the better part of his life living and working in the small slice of heaven known as Santa Barbara. Both he and his wife worked within the telecommunications industry. After developing an internal corporate audience Jim decided

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Our Story of the Week is a startling story from the writer Sophie van Llewyn. Sophie is a Romanian-born author of short stories, flash fiction and, most recently, a Fairlight Moderns novella Bottled Goods, coming on 11 July from Fairlight Books. Sophie grew up in Tulcea, south-east Romania, close to the Danube delta. She is now liv

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Our story of the week is a ghost story from the writer D W Evans. Evans has always been passionate about writing. In school he enjoyed creating plays and comic musicals which grew into a focus on plays and monologues in college. He has a particular talent for dialogue which is showcased in his short stories. In the 90s, while living

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Our story of the week is a story about reflection from the writer Richard Corney. Richard has been writing since he was a child. His first love was poetry, although he did try to write a novel in his twenties. He has published a few poems and a couple of short stories, and has also recently written a novel which is ready for publica

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Our story of the week is a story about loss from the writer Andrew Dicker. Andrew was born in London, where he also went to medical school. In 1991 he started a new NHS practice in Westminster, London after working in rural England and Hong Kong. Since retiring, Andrew has focused on his short fiction. Having enjoyed writing academi

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Our story of the week is survival story from the writer Dr Hannah Stevens. Hannah Stevens has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Leicester. She writes short stories and flash fiction. Hannah's work has been featured in numerous anthologies, magazines and literary journals. She also teaches creative writing workshops in

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Our story of the week is a biographical story from the writer Helena Hinn. Helena began writing in 1984. She writes poetry and short fiction. She has been published in Virago, Women’s Press, Faber & Faber and OUP anthologies. Helena currently lives in Newcastle on Tyne. She spends her time writing, attending literature and fil

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Alan Robert Clark is the author of the historical novel The Prince of Mirrors. An author and ghost-writer from Scotland, this is his second novel to date. We have chatted to Alan about his writing career, the process and inspiration behind The Prince of Mirrors, and much more. How did you start writing? It depends what you mean b

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