This New North Nadia al-Khudari

This New North Nadia al-KhudariProduced by members of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy, this new anthology showcasing the range of talent in the North of England features work by Litro fiction editor Barney Walsh, author & critic Richard Smyth, and poet and academic Haleemah Alaydi. Twelve of the authors featured in this new work are graduates of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy programme, which developed the voices of twelve brand new short story writers based in

a small town chip-shop becomes the site of a heart-wrenching story of failed marriage

a subject notoriously difficult to write about

for there are more than one

Henry Grimes recorded and toured with some of the most imaginative American jazz musicians including Sonny Rollins

These poems

Yet the stories of the 15

and ultimately

the parts that are subtle

Imogen Cassels

starring Pam the Typist

tell the story of how life was lived in one of its poorest communities

entertaining and occasionally flamboyant memoir is a testament to a generous talent dedicated to poetry and to life