Forward Prize nominations 2015–2016

by | 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...

A submissions call with a difference

by | Aug 17, 2015 | Front page, Issues

   We just opened our issue 15 submissions call. As usual we will be accepting work for five weeks, so you have until September 20th. But this call is a little different—we are asking everyone who sends in work for consideration to also show us that they have bought a...

Issue 14

by | Jul 30, 2015 | Front page, Issues

Issue 14 is now available! In a happy coincidence of symmetry, this latest issue features 14 short stories, 14 poems, and two interviews—with authors David Gaffney and Ursula K. Le Guin. All of this means that our 14th issue is our longest issue yet, by quite a way,...

Midsummer: An interview with Lawrence Schimel

by | Jul 6, 2015 | Uncategorized

As part of our on-going series talking to past Structo writers, I caught up with Lawrence Schimel over email during as he bounced between countries last month. His work is at the intersection of Structo’s commitment to gender equality and interest in poetry in...