INTERVIEWS
Kirsty Wark: Stand by your words
by Katherine Nathan
Yiyun Li’s multiple moments
by Mark Reynolds
Sheila Heti talks unpretty
by Alexandra Peake-Tomkinson
Amanda Lindhout: Compassion over hate
by Mark Reynolds
Rebecca Hunt: Poles apart
by Alex Peake-Tomkinson
SHORT STORIES
Damn!
by Charles Portis
Catching the tap-tap to Cayes de Jacmel
by Lane Ashfeldt
The game of errors
by Alberto Mussa
EXTRACTS
Conquered
by John Steinbeck
Hailstorm
by Peter Buwalda
NEW VOICES
Human terrain
by Emily Bullock
CONTEXTS
Understanding the unseen
by Nicholas P. Money
At the chopping board
by Simon Wroe
Alberto Mussa’s timeless fictions
by Kim M. Hastings
A WRITER’S LIFE
Beyond normal
by Alice Hoffman
Staying home
by Joseph Connolly
Climbing without a rope
by Sebastian Barry
The importance of red sneakers
by Simon Sebag Montefiore
FAVOURITE STORIES
Flannery O’Connor: ‘Good Country People’
by Alison MacLeod
Lorrie Moore: ‘How to Be an Other Woman’
by Laura Lippman
TOP TENS
Portals of discovery
by John Kelly
TIPS FOR WRITERS
Avoid like the plague
by Sir Ernest Gowers
Notes to self (for sharing)
by Ruth Thomas
INFLUENCES
Month-to-month loyalties
by TaraShea Nesbit
Real writers
by Lauren Owen
WRITERS’ PATHS
The conversation
by N. Quentin Woolf
PICTURE STORIES
Touching strangers
by Richard Renaldi
Weapons of mass diplomacy
by Abel Lanzac and Christophe Blain
POETRY
Improvised explosive device
by Kevin Powers
PRIZE DRAW
Win a set of five John Steinbeck reissues and two classic DVDs
