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This interview first appeared on Sheenagh Pugh’s blog: Good God! There’s Writing on Both Sides of that Paper! Victor Tapner lives in Essex and is a freelance writer, having previously worked as a journalist on the Financial Times. He has published poem …

From a record 95 entries, the shortlist for the 2010 Aldeburgh First Collection Prize – one of the most influential and established poetry prizes in the UK – highlights six distinctive new voices as the ‘ones-to-watch’ amongst the next generation of UK …

Deflated Ego 7: David Briggs on David Briggs Id: The Method Men was published in May 2010. How’s that working out for you? Briggs: Okay, I guess. The launch readings have gone well. I’ve sold a goodly number of copies at readings. And it’s been shortli …

Last night I went along to the launch of the UK’s first National Short Story Week, which was held in the Charles Dickens Museum in London. I arrived to find the museum packed with people from all areas of the short story world: writers, booksellers, pu …