aAh! caught up with poet, editor, and translator Martin Kratz on how he has stayed creative during the ongoing pandemic and second nationwide lockdown. Martin Kratz is the Projects Manager at Manchester Metropolitan University and is involved in the upcoming opening of the Manchester Poetry Library. Martin worked on the bid to name Manchester a…
Cedar Lewisohn’s new publication, The Marduk Prophecy, offers a unique art-driven narrative about criminality, colonialism, and the construction of Otherness through linocut Mesopotamian art. Cedar Lewisohn is an artist, writer, and museum curator based in London. He has worked on projects with Tate Modern, The British Council, and Tate Britain. His writing has been published…
Manchester-based BRAG Magazine has launched its first publication, ‘Where Has It Gone?’. The magazine’s release features authors’ work in poetry, short stories, and ‘smoke-long’ horror, as well as writing by the editors themselves. Editors hope their indie magazine will “bridge the gap between the real world and the writing that reflects it”. BRAG Literary Magazine…
With the US in the midst of a tumultuous change of office, and having just finished a lengthy election process, many of you may be wondering just how the US elections really work. What is the deal with the electoral college? And Jeez! Why did this whole process take so long!? Even for me, a…
The National Creative Writing Industry Conference offered an in depth perspective on the agent/author relationship during its third panel discussion ‘Meet the Literary Agents’, hosted by Comma Press and the Manchester Writing School. Chaired by Sarah Butler, an author and lecturer at the Manchester Writing School, the panel featured three working professionals who offered their…
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