Laura Jean McKay is the author of The Animals in That Country, which in her home of Australia won the 2021 Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction. The novel then won the prestigious Arthur C Clarke Award Science Fiction Book of the Year. Here she discusses with Alex Lockwood […]
Most of us in the West tend to shy away from grief and treat it as a form of personal distress. From a Buddhist perspective grief can be an aspect of compassion. If we go deeply enough into grief we come across what is most precious in life. In the next moment we can […]
Read More… from The heart that breaks open can hold the whole universeShantigarbha
Yesterday, large parts of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill were voted down by the House of Lords, with peers raising many objections to its vision of a tougher approach to protest in Britain. Now the Commons will have another chance to debate the Bill. The process surrounding this Bill has been anti-democratic […]
Read More… from Protest Policing – From the InsideAlice O'Keeffe
It happened on the 8.10 from Euston to Manchester Piccadilly. It was a Tuesday in February 2019. The train was zooming through the outskirts of London. The carriage smelled of aftershave and Costa coffee, there was the tap-tap of laptop keyboards and pre-work chitchat as normal people headed to normal meetings. I was going […]
As a Christmas gift, from Writers Rebel to you, all the five chapters of the writing manual that Toby Litt wrote for Writers Rebel are here, downloadable as a pdf. How to Tell a Story to Save the World by Toby Litt for Writers Rebel […]
Read More… from How to Tell a Story to Save the WorldToby Litt
Do you remember the 2016 news story about the baby dolphin washed up on an Argentinian beach? Rather than help it, dozens of tourists at the Santa Teresita beach resort simply took selfies with it. The saddest image was the final one: the dolphin’s corpse left discarded on the beach after it succumbed to […]
Read More… from Dolphins don’t just die in other placesHarry Eckman
Can you tell us a little more about the anthology ‘Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate Emergency’ why and how did it come about? Was there any particular ‘trigger’ that compelled you to edit this collection? 2021 has been such a pivotal year for the planet, and it brought together many key events […]
Read More… from Out of Time: Poetry From the Climate EmergencyKate Simpson