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Our short story of the week is a story about disability by Jen Knox. Jen Knox was born and raised in the Midwestern states and has worked primarily in the non-profit sector and academia. Her writing has a strong focus on tumultuous family relationships and our relationship with the natural world. Her short stories can be found in ov

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Our short story of the week is a story about bullying by Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan is an author, editor, lecturer and critic. His novels Melissa (Salt, 2015) and Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012) have gained acclaim, both shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award. He has ventured outside of fiction novels with his poetry collecti

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Our short story of the week is a slavery story by Tahmina Hussain. Tahmina graduated from Newman University with a BA in English in 2015. She then went on to do her Masters in English Language Teaching in TESOL at Nottingham Trent University. During this time she was given the chance to go to Vietnam and teach English skills to Vietnam

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Our story of the week is a musical story from the writer Emma Lee. Emma has written since she was a little girl. Her first publication was in the school magazine at the age of five. Since then she’s had poems and short stories published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, USA, Mexico and South Africa and three poetry collections:

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Emma Timpany is the author of Fairlight Books' novella Travelling in the Dark.  Emma was born in Dunedin, New Zealand but moved to the UK in the 1990s, after receiving a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Otago. Emma has already published two short story collections - Over the Dam (Red Squirrel Press 2015) and The L

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Our short story of the week is a loneliness story by Nanditha Ram. Nanditha Ram is an India-born and raised, New Zealand-based writer of short fiction. She has a background in English Literature and Journalism. She also writes regularly on yoga and wellness. Her blog of six years on the same subject has now become a book manuscript (Th

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Our story of the week is The Luck of Love - Part Two, a London love story from the writer Miriam Burke. Miriam is from the West of Ireland and now lives in London. She has a PhD in Psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist before becoming a full-time writer. Miriam has had stories published in anthologies and magazines. Some

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Sophie van Llewyn is an author of short stories, flash fiction and, most recently, a novella-in-flash, Bottled Goods. Sophie grew up in Tulcea, South-East Romania, close to the Danube delta. Sophie started writing when she was in fifth grade, and even won a third place at a country-level short story competition. She was also editor-in-

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Our story of the week is a manipulative story from the writer Numair A. Choudhury. Numair started writing in secondary school. He cultivated his talent by enrolling in Oberlin College Creative Writing Program. After graduating he joined Andrew Motion’s Creative Writing Department. Numair has published over a dozen short stories. H

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Our story of the week is The Luck of Love - Part One, an outsider's view of a troubled marriage from the writer Miriam Burke. Miriam is from the West of Ireland and now lives in London. She has a PhD in Psychology and worked as a clinical psychologist before becoming a full-time writer. Miriam has had stories published in anthologie

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