Volume 07, Chapter 12 | October 2020

Image by Jemima Muir

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Dear writers, readers and friends,

Welcome to October! This month we are going south… the South East of England that is – with our guest curator, the novelist and writing advocate Sharon Duggal. She and her selected writers are responding to this fabulous image by a hugely talented up-and-coming illustrator, Jemima Muir.

Sharon Duggal (http://www.Sharonduggal.com) grew up in north-west Birmingham as part of a large Indian family. Her acclaimed debut novel, The Handsworth Times, was The Morning Star’s fiction Book of the Year 2016 and selected for Brighton City Reads 2017. Her short stories are in several anthologies including The Book of Birmingham and Love Bites. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind, is to be published on 22 October by Bluemoose Books (http://www.bluemoosebooks.com/ ) .

Craig Jordan-Baker (https://twitter.com/CraigJordanBak1) is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at The University of Brighton. He has published fiction in New Writing, Text, Firefly Magazine, Potluck and in the époque press é-zine (https://www.epoquepress.com/ezine ) . His drama has been widely performed in the UK, including his adaptation of Beowulf and he has had dramatic work commissioned from The National Archives, The Booth Museum of Natural History and the Theatre Royal Brighton. The Nacullians is Craig’s debut novel, out now with époque press.

Alinah Azadeh (https://www.alinahazadeh.com/) is a writer, artist, performer and social activist of British-Iranian descent. She has been creating visual works for museums, galleries and across diverse communities for over 20 years and has had short stories, interviews and articles published. She is currently developing a collective writing project along the south east UK coast based on a speculative fiction story she wrote, We See You Now (https://newwritingsouth.com/we-see-you-now-alinah-azadeh) . She has just finished writing her first novel, In the Skin of a Stranger, which was longlisted for this year’s S.I Leeds Literary Prize.

If that isn’t enough talent and skill, ambition and resilience to get you started this month, we don’t know what would be. We hope you enjoy reading them, supporting their work, their small presses – and watch this space for these dedicated artists to shine – as you get inspired to get writing. Remember our community guidelines – we won’t publish you again if we feel you’ve broken them before – and our submission guidelines of 50-500 words in response to the image, written within one hour. Deadline: 15th September.

The image is the starting point, the text is up to you…

Preti, Kristen, Lucie and Luke

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