The 2016 psalm translation contest

Lent is upon us once more, and with it another Structo psalm translation contest. The basics of this are as follows: take a biblical psalm and reinvent it in English. We want the material through your eyes, any way you see fit. You needn’t know any original languages...

Issue 15 launch in Oxford

As we’re in the final stages of putting together issue 15, our thoughts are beginning to turn to the launch, which is happening at The Albion Beatnik bookshop in Oxford on February 20th at 6pm. The photo above summarises the reasons why we have our winter...

More on apps and indie bookshops

We’re always interested when people find innovative ways to link readers to independent bookshops. Hive, an Amazon-like website for indie bookshops, is a favourite, and the recent Ooovre crowdfunding project showed what might be possible if the tech world and...

Review: Oslo, Norway by John Holten

John Holten’s Oslo, Norway is a lot of things. At first glance the book, Holten’s second to be published by Broken Dimanche Press (the publisher he co-founded in Berlin), appears much like any other example of literary fiction, introducing the reader to a roster of...

Issue 14 now online

It’s been a few months since the print edition of issue 14 was released, and so as usual we have now released it online to read for free over at Issuu. In case you missed the scoop on launch, this latest issue features 14 short stories, 14 poems, and two...

Rus and the writing of Bette Adriaanse

We published a story called Rus and the Letter in our eighth issue. It’s a deceptively simple little tale full of well-observed wit from Dutch author and artist Bette Adriaanse. We catch up with Bette just as her first novel, Rus Like Everyone Else, is published...