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TNW 95 - Mar/Apr 2009 In
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Her recent collection, Lip, has been extremely well received and we thank her
for everything she's done to make the TNW poetry pages so luminescent; new work
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shines brightly in the last Versesmith. New fiction from Heather Parker, Lorraine
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TNW 94 - Jan/Feb 2009 Completely
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TNW 93 - Nov/Dec 2008 More
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TNW 90 - May/Jun 2008
If you're thinking of asking
us for a free back copy, ask for this one, TNW 90, for no other reason than it
kicks off with Susannah Rickards' brilliant short story, Mango. Highly
commended in our annual Prizes, it should have gone all the way - it's a fantastic
example of the craft in every respect. What else we got? Well, let's stick with
the shorts. Although we've bigged up Susannah we could have said the some for
the other three fiction writers in this fantastic issue; excellent new work from
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TNW 89 - Mar/Apr 2008 Special
subscribers short shorts issue plus ... Writing Down Your Life with Hilary Lloyd;
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by Linda Lewis answering readers' questions in I'm Puzzled; Sally Spedding's dark,
brooding tale, Friends In High Places - spooky; poetry editor, Catherine Smith,
loves hearing beautifully read poems on the radio, and she selects new work from
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TNW 88 - Jan/Feb 2008 That
prolific and excellent writer of fiction, Sally Zigmond, is in this issue - no
better reason to get hold of a copy. In her deeply evocative, seriously thoughtful,
new piece, Curiosity, she succeeds in delivering in under two thousand words an
object lesson in the craft of short story writing. From the very start, "The church
clock is cased in ice, time held frozen in its hands", to the oh so moving ending,
"They will preserve me behind glass and put someone else's name beneath my bones.
People will look at me and wonder", you will find a story of incredible betrayal
so tightly written that you will believe every word. If you're serious about your
writing, go search this one out. The only surprising thing is that this mini-epic
was a runner up in our annual Prose & Poetry Prizes and not an outright winner.
PS: there's such a lot of good reading in this cold winter issue that will warm
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