The Lowdham Book Festival is a yearly event that takes place in the village of Lowdham just outside Nottingham, and as of 2018 has been ...

By Emma Parker In 1967, Leicester-born playwright Joe Orton won the prestigious Evening Standard Play of the Year Award for his anarch...

By Jonathan Taylor My new poetry collection, published in June 2018 by Shoestring Press , is entitled Cassandra Complex , and is full...

By Jonathan Taylor Over the last few weeks, I've had the pleasure of judging the inaugural Leicester Book Prize , with co-judges F...

Shaindel Beers is author of the poetry collections A Brief History of Time (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Children’s War and Other Poems ...

By Dan Powell The end of my first year as a full-time PhD student in Creative Writing is fast approaching. It’s a landmark in my stud...

Victoria Pickup studied a BA in English and MA in Creative Writing at Loughborough University. A freelance writer for seven years, she ...