by Euan | Mar 2, 2017 | Competitions, Front page
As you will know if you have picked up a copy of the magazine over the last few years, we’re big fans of works in translation. And so we were delighted when the Austrian Cultural Forum in London got in touch to ask whether we’d like to help judge their new...
by Euan | Mar 1, 2017 | Front page, Issues
This is Structo 17. It features 104 pages of outstanding fiction and and poetry, an essay on the unknown side of Jerome K. Jerome and two interviews, one with Vera Chok and the other with Oscar Schwartz. You can order your copy here, or find out more at the issue...
by Euan | Dec 10, 2016 | Author news, Front page
Melanie Whipman’s story ‘After Ever After’ appeared in Structo 11. We talked to her about her new story collection, Llama Sutra. Is there a common thread linking the stories in Llama Sutra? Yes, the title of the book was chosen for a reason. It’s not...
by Euan | Nov 23, 2016 | Author news, Front page
We talk to Structo alum Cristina Baptista about her new full-length collection, which opens with the poem ‘Trouble Woman’ from Issue 14. I don’t know if The Drowning Book would have been possible without Gertrude Stein and William James. I began the project in early...
by Hannah Hayden | Nov 14, 2016 | Front page, Reviews
To many, pigeons are indisputably the basest birds in the book. Our connotations of the pigeon don’t usually stray far from Woody Allen’s “rats of the sky” or Tom Lehrer’s Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. A positive literary allusion to the pigeon is...
by William Braun | Nov 7, 2016 | Front page, Reviews
The idea behind Refugee Tales certainly makes for good advertising. Marketed as a twenty-first century version of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales where refugees replace pilgrims, it sounds like a new entry on an award-studded list of contemporary takes on the...