Reader Survey

It’s Tuesday. You’ve got nearly the whole week ahead of you, so here’s a quick reminder to help hone Structo magazine by filling out our reader survey! A few short questions. None incriminating. To top it off, you’ll still be entered to win a...

Best British Short Stories 2015

A few months ago we were delighted to learn that Uschi Gatward’s issue 12 story ‘The Clinic’ had been selected for the 2015 edition of Best British Short Stories. We’re even more delighted to report that the book is now available! The Best...

Issue 13 now online

 It’s been three months since the print edition of issue 13 hit shelves and doormats everywhere, and so as usual we have now released it online to read for free over at issuu. Try it on your tablet if you have one—it works really well.In case you missed the...

Review: The Combover by Adrián N. Bravi

If you watch any American television, you may well have noticed that it features a lot of bald or balding men: Tony Soprano (The Sopranos), Louie (Louie), Pete Campbell (Mad Men), Homer Simpson (The Simpsons), Larry David, (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Walter White...

Reading The Stanley Parable

 We can’t get enough of stories which refuse to play by the rules, or which make us suddenly realise we had no idea what the rules were in the first place. Some very interesting, not to say entertaining, narrative experiments are happening in the world of video...

Review: The Good Son by Paul McVeigh

Should I be a loner? Or be in a gang. Paul McVeigh’s ambitious debut pits the half-term struggles of a pre-adolescent boy in the tempestuous run-up to his first day of ‘Big School’, against the explosive, sectarian world of Belfast’s Ardoyne during The Troubles. I...