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Phoebe Walker is an award-winning poet, who has integrated her poetic and witty style into her debut novel. Set in the Netherlands, Temper deals with contemporary anxieties and explores loneliness, self-worth and disconnection with head-nodding accuracy.   How did you start writing and what does writing mean to you? Slowly.

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about conversation by Deborah Jenkins. Deborah Jenkins is the author of Braver, a Fairlight Books novel publishing on 30 June 2022. Deborah is a freelance writer and primary teacher who

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about icy days by Annie Dawid. Annie Dawid teaches online for the University of Denver, University College graduate creative writing program. She writes and makes art in the Wet Mountain Val

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about mother-daughter relationships by Judith Wilson. Judith is a London-based writer and journalist. She won 1st Prize for the London Short Story Prize 2019, and 3rd Prize for the Brick L

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about acceptance by Margaret Crompton. Between 1975 and 2012, Margaret’s publications comprised mainly articles, papers, training materials and books about communicating with children and

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about loneliness by Lorraine Rogerson. Lorraine Rogerson lives and writes in Broadstairs on the Isle of Thanet, on the North Kent coast. Lorraine has written all her life. After she retir

Douglas Bruton is the author of With or Without Angels, a hybrid and innovative short novel that responds through fiction to The New World, the final artwork by the late artist Alan Smith – which is in turn a response to an eighteenth-century fresco, Giandomenico Tiepolo’s Il Mondo Nuovo. With sparkling, dreamlike prose, Bruton weave

Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about discovery by Holly Sykes. Holly Sykes lives in Hong Kong, having relocated with her family from the northwest of England in 2021. After teaching English in secondary schools around the