I hate to start this article off with something that sounds a bit cliché, but here goes: ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been writing stories. It’s true though. I remember reading out a short story where the chapters were a few sentences long to my Year 2 classmates. As I’ve got older,…
Creative Writing, Venue
How to Disappear
Content Warnings: Eating disorder and self harm ‘You’re not going until you’ve finished.’ Mum watched and Poppy pretended to chew on the pasta that was slowly congealing on the plate in front of her. ‘Have you got your snack for later?’ ‘You should know; you packed it.’ Poppy wanted to scream but managed to…
Creative Writing, Venue
Our Tree
Content Warning- very mild gore, mentions of terminal illness FADE IN: EXT. SOUP TREE HILL – EARLY EVENING Millie and Adam stand at the top of a long, rolling hill with a lone tree in the middle, which has grown into two large trunks and an excess of bulging roots. The middle of the two…
Creative Writing, Venue
An Ordinary Man, An Extraordinary Day
Mr Jones liked to think that ordinary was better. If you’re ordinary, you’re neither noteworthy for being smart, nor noteworthy for being dumb; neither talented nor useless. If you’re altogether B grade – do a bit of everything relatively well – then you slide right past others’ peripheral visions. He took pride in the fact…
Creative Writing, Venue
The Troublesome Pain of Memory Lane
A silent and dusty mind, Meaning memories are hard to find. As cobwebs cling to jumbled thoughts, With a last attempt to rack your brain, Searching for a seat within the train Of thought that seems to have departed, Leaving you in lands uncharted. It never used to be like this. Remembering faces and…
Arts
Q&A with poet and UEA alumnus Luke Wright
You’re touring with your new show Luke Wright, Poet Laureate which must be massively exciting for you – in what way is this show similar or different to the many other shows that you’ve toured with? Fundamentally speaking, I do two different types of shows. Frankie Vah – the last one that I toured with…
Arts
Book review: She Used To Be On A Milk Carton by Kailey Tedesco
I started reading She Used To Be On A Milk Carton expecting it to follow the trend of contemporary feminist poetry popularised by Rupi Kaur and the like. Despite probably being a pleasant read in the moment, I thought it would end up fading in my memory similar to Instagram poetry/illustration books – I have…
TV
Diamonds in the rough – TV’s hidden gems
We’re in the golden age of television and as viewers we are absolutely spoilt for choice, but with Netflix homogenising what we see, it becomes easy for some of the best shows to slip under the radar. Here are some of the strongest series we’ve seen in recent years that you’ve probably never heard of;…
Film
Nightflyers – outdated and laughably clichéd
The new Netflix series, Nightflyers, an adaption of George R.R. Martin’s novella by the same name, is not worth its cost in time. If the series offered some of the elements that we know Martin to be good at, such as world and character building, the story would have a certain credibility, however it is…
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