Backstory: Four Questions with Remi Skytterstad Author of Soul Theft What inspired you to write ‘Soul Theft’? I am from Northern Norway (the very top), where this theft of culture and language happened. My grandparents were Samis, and while I…
Soul Theft
Soul Theft by Remi Skytterstad They built internment camps in red, white and blue: and called them schools. Filled them with mouthless faces, stripped of all colours of home: and called us pupils. There, the rattan cane clapped over…
Backstory: Five Questions with George L. Hickman
Backstory: Five Questions with George L. Hickman Author of Invisible What inspired you to write ‘Invisible’? One of my main interests as a writer is re-writing queer and underrepresented characters back into history. Trans people, in particular, have existed since…
Invisible
Invisible by George L. Hickman We had been whipping the whiskey wash for three hours now, my socks long soaked from the Scottish rain. Four of us boys stood around a bubbling vat of yeast and barley, piercing its thick…