Timeline: FlashBack’s Sixth Season We’d like to celebrate our final season of our second year with this tremendous collection of flash and prose poetry. We’ll be back in January with new work and our next submission window which stretches from…
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson
BackStory: Five Questions with John Nicholson Author of Compost What inspired you to write ‘Compost’? I was on a prose fiction Diploma course at UEA at the time. My old Norfolk garden had apple trees in fruit, all but one…
Compost
Compost by John Nicholson The Berlin Wall is down and my pension is in real marks. The notes feel good between finger and thumb, substantial. My shovel feels good too, balanced horizontally in my left hand, cold wood and colder…
BackStory: Five Questions with Matt Kendrick
BackStory: Five Questions with Matt Kendrick Author of Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845 What inspired you to write ‘Life at the Colliery’? This piece germinated from a single word – ‘darkness.’ Being afraid of the dark is such a universal…
Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845
Life at the Colliery, 1832-1845 by Matt Kendrick Six, Trapper It’s dark. Darker than coal. Darker than Ma’s eyes when I came home caked in mud after football on the common. Which is before. When we weren’t down here. Crouched…