
Magazine
Literary Fiction

Just Too Much, or Not Enough? Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
A few years ago, I started working on a novel. A type of novel that didn’t yet seem to exist. Not zombies in space; not aliens on Tinder; not a...

A Novel about Female Memory: The Glass Door by R.M. Clarke
Since the #MeToo movement uncoiled and private matters have become public – Belfast, Blasey – women have been on trial for their memories. Female experience has always been branded ‘alleged’,...

Biofictioning Belle Bilton by Nuala O’Connor
An editor once warned me off labelling my writing as historical fiction. ‘It’s a narrow genre,’ he said, ‘and it gives off a certain impression.’ He was talking about a...

The Cutting Room: The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise
I showed up in China like most white people—clueless, not speaking the language, utterly out of my element, and trying to convince myself that the hotel employees actually liked me....

He is Mine and I Have No Other by Rebecca O’Connor
I was in my late twenties and living in Oxford, working as an assistant editor in the trade department at Oxford University Press, when I started He Is Mine and...

Writing for Love: The Gravity of Love by Noelle Harrison
I am always on the search for a good love story. Not particularly loyal to one genre, I read thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, and historical fiction, anything as long as...

An Added Poignancy: This Tumult by Caroline Preston
I was born into a family with a strong military tradition on both sides. As a child I assumed that everyone had parents who had ‘been in the war.’ Growing...

Writing In White Ink by Elske Rahill
When I’m asked about my fiction, I tend to start rabbiting on about the things I am trying to explore, the political implications and so on. But if I stop...

The Art of Getting It Together: Innocents by Cathal Gunning
My debut novel, Innocents was released on September 27, 2017. I started writing the first draft on February 14, 2014. I got caught in a lie, is what happened....

There’s No Such Thing as Historical Fiction: Grace by Paul Lynch
It might sound odd to say it, but there is no such thing as historical fiction. And yet if you write a literary novel set in the past, let’s say...