by Euan | Oct 15, 2019 | Front page, Uncategorized
The Writers Rebel event in Trafalgar Square. Photo by Ben Sullivan The past week or so has seen Extinction Rebellion organise massive climate protests in as many as 60 cities worldwide. On 11 October in London’s Trafalgar Square, a group within the movement...
by Euan | Mar 15, 2018 | Front page, Uncategorized
This new edition of Untranslatable, an irregular blog series of artists’ illustrations of untranslatable words, features the Faroese word Andøva, meaning ‘to keep a boat in place by rowing against the wind or currents’. The word comes from our associate...
by Euan | Aug 28, 2016 | Front page, Uncategorized
We publish around five percent of the submissions we receive here at Structo. This means for each issue we are reading, voting and commenting on hundreds and hundreds of stories and poems. This quantity is tied to an ever-increasing quality of work sent in, but it it...
by Matthew | Jul 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
I am thrilled to announce that Structo’s first poetry chapbook is now available. Christina Seymour’s collection Flowers Around Your Soft Throat is built around her winning entry for the 2015 Structo psalms contest, ‘A Song of Loves’, and...
by Matthew | Jul 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Each year we have the honour of nominating poems for the Forward Prize. It’s a difficult thing, choosing from the last two issues’ lovely and memorable poems but after some wrestling and rereading we settled on these four pieces: ‘Trouble...
by Matthew | Jul 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Roald Dahl had one. Virginia Woolf had one. Thoreau went to one to live deliberately. Hemingway had one over his garage with a bridge to his bedroom. Now I’m building one too. Sandwiched between the chicken yard and the sheep pen on my friend’s farm,...