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Issue #10 ‘New’

Colm Tóibín Sings Praise for Silence
The Living History of Rose Tremain
Wesley Stace: Literary Ventriloquism
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Previous issues

Issue #09 ‘Pulp Fiction Special’

The Amazing Adventures of Michael Chabon.
The Unsinkable Christopher Brookmyre.
Writing guidance from Paul Barnhill
and much, much more!
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Issue #08 ‘Survival’

Breaking the First Rule: an interview with Chuck Palahniuk.
The two sides of Booker-winner John Banville.
Writing guidance from Nicholas Royle.
An article on the new Edge Hill short story prize.
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Issue #07 ‘Time’

An interview with Haruki Murakami.
Jon McGregor on his new novel, So Many ways to Begin.
Writing guidance from novelist Ian McGuire and much more.
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Issue #06 ‘Identity’

An interview with Generation X author Douglas Coupland.
The Independent Spirit of Dave Eggers.
Writing guidance from Ra Page and much, much more..
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Issue #05 ‘Escape’

An interview with Ghost Story author Toby Litt.
A.L. Kennedy on the short story.
Ray Robinson on the publishing process
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The early issues

Issues #01 – #04 saw us finding our feet. The pilot issue (September 2004) was all short fiction, and is now very rare (only 50 copies were ever printed). In issue #02 (April 2005) we stepped up the page count and included an interview with Nobel-winner Doris Lessing, along with reviews and articles. In issue #03 (September 2005), we interviewed Edmund White, and had our first Writer’s Block, by novelist Paul Magrs. Issue #04 contained an exclusive interview with Sarah Waters, writing guidance by Michael Schmidt and an interview with Anthony Burgess’ biographer, Andrew Biswell.