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We caught up with Özgür Uyanık, whose debut short story collection Men Alone was published last month, to ask him some questions...     Hi Öz, and thanks for making the time to talk to us. What inspired you to write Men Alone? Following my father’s death in 2019, I began to think more deeply about his life. One aspect that fascinated me was the hard barrier between his external self and his secretive internal one and so I wanted to explore this way of being. Therefore, each story is about men—at different stages of life—trying to master their existence...

This Cyril James Morris published his debut book The Herring Man; a beautiful tale about dealing with grief and searching for hope. Learn more about The Herring Man. Step into Cyril's Writer's Corner to see what makes him tick!

John Sam Jones is a Welsh gay writer and activist, his compelling memoir The Journey is Home is a powerful account of his own life story as a gay man living in an often homophobic and toxic society and the struggles he's overcome. 

We invited John into The Writer's Corner to talk all things books, his love of German crime dramas and knitting.

Dr Philippa Holloway is writer and senior lecturer at Staffordshire University. The Half-Life of Snails #THLOS, is her debut novel and follows the narratives of two sisters Helen and Jennifer. A bond that has been intertwined and tested by the looming Wylfa Power Station that marked their childhood in Ynys y Mon.  During research for her PhD which examined nuclear psychogeography,  Philippa visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. This extensive research shaped the writing in #THLOS and grounded her work in exploring the relationship between the land around us and our sense of belonging.  What are you reading right now? The Scrapbook,...