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We are a literary journal for emerging and established authors and we publish flash fiction, short stories & non-fiction that prioritise voice, character and emotional engagement. Our fourth edition focuses on nature, the environment, and climate change, including nature poetry, both traditional and innovative, fractured fairytales that make the natural world their setting, and eco-fiction that intersects with the dystopian and the speculative.
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Curdle Creek by Yvonne Battle-Felton
There are books that transport you, and then there are books that hurl you bodily through time and space, leaving you breathless and disoriented in the best possible way. Yvonne Battle-Felton’s Curdle Creek is decidedly the latter—a fever-dream odyssey that begins in an all-Black town governed by nightmarish traditions and spirals into something far more expansive and terrifying.
My Head For A Tree by Martin Goodman
The book opens with a scene that seems almost mythical: In 1730, a woman named Amrita Devi pressed her body against a tree trunk as axes swung toward it. Her final words, before her head was severed, would echo through centuries: “Sar santey rukh rahe to bhi sasto jan” — “My head for a tree; it’s a cheap price to pay.” By day’s end, 363 Bishnoi villagers lay dead.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993) is a dystopian novel following 15-year-old Lauren Olamina as she navigates America through the years 2024 to 2027. When her community is attacked, Lauren leads the survivors towards Canada in search of a safe haven and a fresh start. It borders on terrifying how relevant some of the issues depicted in a novel written in 1993 are to the current state of society.
