Monthly archives: January 2019

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News: Eminent Chinese author Yan Ge leads writing workshop at Carriageworks Theatre

Surrealism in Fiction Workshop with Yan Ge The Northern Short Story Festival is thrilled to be hosting top Chinese author Yan Ge in Leeds for a “Surrealism in Fiction” workshop, and Salon. Saturday 9 February 2019, 1- 4pm at Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds Tickets/ £16. Available from Carriageworks website. Subsidised* tickets £5. Email us to book.  (northernshortstoryfestival at gmail.com) Surrealism in fiction: being magical, whimsical or uncanny. As soon as storytelling was […]

Review: Table Manners by Susmita Bhattacharya

Writer Judy Birkbeck reviews Table Manners, by Susmita Bhattacharya, published by Dahlia Publishing, 2018. Susmita Bhattacharya’s first collection ranges between India, Cardiff and Singapore and other places, and focuses on family relationships and cultural differences or the clash between generations, but above all the treatment of women in various societies. In Summer of Learning, a girl and her parents experience difficulties when visiting the father’s family in India on a long-planned […]