Litrefs Articles

"Happy and Fortunate" is a 13 page poem from "Old Men" (Salt, 2024) by Peter Daniels. It was shortlisted in the Wigtow...

First some definitions - Spatial Form - " Spatial Form (modernist poetics) gives unity to a literary work by a pattern of ...

There are many styles of critiques, even at workshops. Some have names (Narratology, Deconstructionism, etc), some are tendencies (character...

Paul Stephenson's noted for his use of forms. The forms aren't often traditional. The most common device is repetition of words/phra...

Today’s going to be a mix of light and heavy items, of interactive and chalk-and-talk items. Genre’s a slippery topic, so we’re going to ta...

"The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" mixes genres though it's much more comedy than SF - Adams would do anything for a l...

"A kind of heaven" and "1982", the stories that start and finish David Almond's story collection "A kind of hea...