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“I wanted my characters to inhabit spaces outside what’s expected for queer and trans people—especially joyful spaces.” Talking to author Claire Rudy Foster about their new book – Shine of the Ever.

After reading Claire Rudy Foster’s new short story collection, Shine of the Ever, I was truly stunned. Foster short stories were full of people grappling with situations that I had lived through. On the pages were characters dealing with unrequited love, repressed sexuality, strained friendships and other wonderfully mundane or fantastically chaotic moments that you… Read More “I wanted my characters to inhabit spaces outside what’s expected for queer and trans people—especially joyful spaces.” Talking to author Claire Rudy Foster about their new book – Shine of the Ever.

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Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and The Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove – A spooky festive mystery to curl up with on a dark winter’s night

There is no better time of year to set a ghost story than at Christmas. The nights are long and dark. The death of the year looms over us. With the crackle of the logs burning in the fire place (or as in my case, a 10 hour long YouTube video of Christmas ambience being… Read More Book Review: Sherlock Holmes and The Christmas Demon by James Lovegrove – A spooky festive mystery to curl up with on a dark winter’s night

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Nuclear Future – The play that contemplates what happens to your family when the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight

The world is a little crazy right now. A little while ago there was a false alarm of a nuclear attack in Hawaii and people thought it was real. In a world where the Doomsday clock sits at 2 minutes to midnight, award-winning production company, Gameshow wants you ask what happens to your family. Nuclear… Read More Nuclear Future – The play that contemplates what happens to your family when the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight

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Book Review: Soon by Lois Murphy – Old school horror set in small town Australia

The horror of this book will creep over you and surround you like the mist that haunts the residents of the small Australian town from its pages. Soon by Lois Murphy tells the story of Pete, an ex-cop living in the town of Nebulah with his dog, Gina. The town was never hugely populated before… Read More Book Review: Soon by Lois Murphy – Old school horror set in small town Australia

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Diversity in Children’s Literature: How Imagine Me Stories shines a spotlight on black characters in children’s books

The delight of reading as a child is being able to image yourself as the hero. Looking at the adventurer on the page and seeing yourself in them can really spark a child’s creativity. Having characters that children can identify with in books is a powerful form of representation. It says to them that there… Read More Diversity in Children’s Literature: How Imagine Me Stories shines a spotlight on black characters in children’s books

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Book Review: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson – The novel I wish I could love

In Frankissstein, Jeanette Winterson uses a two narrative telling different stories to reanimate the questions once illuminated by Mary Shelley’s classic literary creation Frankenstein. In the first narrative, Winterson gives us the voice of Shelly during the gloomy vacation in Geneva, 1816 in which she first put pen to paper to bring her novel to… Read More Book Review: Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson – The novel I wish I could love

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Book Review: Hex Life edited by Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering – Wicked New Tales of Witchery

Have you ever imaged what it must be like to hear the tales of a coven of incredible women? Editors Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering have conjured up just that. Inside the pages of Hex Life are a collection of enchanted tales from the pens of eighteen fantastically talented female authors. Within these stories… Read More Book Review: Hex Life edited by Christopher Golden and Rachel Autumn Deering – Wicked New Tales of Witchery

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“I was capable of more than just being ‘generic Scandinavian background actor’” – Linus Karp talks about taking risks with his upcoming tour

Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve F**ked is quite a title for a theatre play. The play itself is written about Rob Hayes and tells the story of Bobby whom after a long time of feeling lonely and unloved finds comfort in becoming intimately involved with animals. As weird as this may sound, it is important… Read More “I was capable of more than just being ‘generic Scandinavian background actor’” – Linus Karp talks about taking risks with his upcoming tour

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Book Review: We Have Always Been Here – Samra Habib’s Queer Muslim Memoir

We Have Always Been Here is the fantastic queer Muslim memoir of editor and photographer Samra Habib. In the book she details her life so far starting with her birth and early childhood in Pakistan. There are some beautifully written snapshots of her early life in the first part of the book. Her memories of… Read More Book Review: We Have Always Been Here – Samra Habib’s Queer Muslim Memoir

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