A magazine for new writers

All the ways as a 28-year-old woman with a Masters in Psychology you could now effectively rewrite the ending 1. When Benjamin Braddock...

Jane typed a new name onto the top of her CV: Cassandra Watts. At Education, she paused, and then typed the names of her children’s...

Plates of carefully selected finger food provide the only colour in the pub’s function room. Monochrome people stand around, splashes of...

Inside Esther’s shop the air was a deliberate cloying, grassy scent that stuck to the back of the throat. She liked to keep customers a...

I’m sat at the front on the wooden bench normally used in PE for step-ups or balancing on. We’re in the big hall, the floor is wood and...

The first time she noticed? Rachel couldn’t remember. A week ago, or ten. There, at the bottom of her short drive, a lone cigarette butt,...

Seven testimonials for a popular instructor Rose Adair came to her seminar prepared, with a typed lesson plan, spare pencils, enough...

Reasons why tonight I’m going to run away from the circus. 1. Whilst clowns without waxy make-up and oversized outfits don’t look...

Elspeth is shaking out a checked blanket to lay on a sandy patch of beach when Beth yells, ‘Mummy, it’s Joe,’ and runs down to the gangly...

Beneath icepick rain and a moon shining blue, the old seaman wades through knee-deep saltwater. It drools inside his rubber boots,...

He is standing still with the rain falling in stinging drops on his cheeks. The wind is blowing as wind does and tousles his hair around...

Heidi smiled for the first time in months, and I was afraid that it wouldn’t last. A woman at the next table asked to see the chef. Heidi...

Molly kicks her heels together in too-small pumps. Shards of glass scatter around her as she looks at the church clock and sighs. Still...

Smog shrouds my city in a thick, yellow gauze. It clings to my eyes as I run, stinging them with tears. I squint, ...

Mary knew tricks to stop herself floating away. She weighed her shoes down with guilt; what would her elderly mother do without her? When...