Anam Zafar's translations of Najat Abed Alsamad's work offer shattering insights into everyday experiences of the war in Syria.
Najat Abed Alsamad Fiction 9th March 2022
‘I sit in my van and let it idle for a while, allowing the gentle hum of the engine to settle me. I take several deep breaths in. I don’t know why this has unnerved me so much. It is such a silly meaningless thing.’
Louise Hegarty Fiction 1st February 2022
Jacinta Mulders Fiction Issue 45/Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
"His mother had a choice between keeping the monkey or having the baby. She told the story often, in company, with a roll of her eyes and a helpless grin, as if this was the sore spot, the branching crossroads where her life had gone wrong. "
Sheila Armstrong Fiction 4th November 2021
Andrew Meehan Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Eamon McGuiness Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Hyam Yared Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Jodie Wray Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Jon McGregor Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Liz MacBride Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Lorie Broumand Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Marie-Helene Bertino Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Micheal Phoenix Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Rebecca Ivory Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Stephen Sexton Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
Wendy Erskine Fiction Issue 45, Volume 2: Winter 2021-22
'You talk and talk until you run out of breath and still when you get home there are things you wish you had said. Just once I would like to wake before myself and see what I am with my eyes closed.'
John Christopher Fiction 6th October 2021
‘Your mother’s on the radio,’ she said, ‘being racist.’ This had surprised me; the radio bit. My mother had an aversion to talk radio.
Danielle McLaughlin Fiction 1st September 2021
An archaeology student's chance encounter on a summer dig in Greece brings a private obsession full circle and provokes a reckoning with past occurrences.
Emer O'Hanlon Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
In this exquisitely written story of a relationship, two colleagues strike up a workplace rapport that will alter the course of their lives.
Lisa Owens Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
"They wore travel outfits, comfy and subtle. Tiny shorts and big hoodies in creamy colours. Shorts said: actual holiday. Hoodies said: chill, not like the other young ones going away, flashing bikinis at baggage claim."
Katie Curran Fiction 12th August 2021
'Sometimes I long for home, but not home as it is now, home back then. Back when it was nice. When the sun was always out, and we could play all day out of doors. Before I had to be a woman.'
Niamh Prior Fiction 7th July 2021
Glen Jeffries Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
JL Bogenschneider Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Ian Maleney Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Lanre Otaiku Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Rachel Connolly Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
Ronan Kelly Fiction Issue 44/Volume 2: Summer 2021
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