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Alex Aspden
Alex Aspden is a writer based in London. His short fiction has appeared in multiple publications, most recently in The Interpreter’s House. He was longlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize in 2022 and has previously been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize.

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Under the Paving Stones, the Sofa

Prize Entry

September 2022

Alex Aspden

Prize Entry

September 2022

The email telling us to return to the office came last week, but I know when I step off the train that I can’t...

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feature

June 2014

Turning the Game Around

Daniel Galera

TR. Rahul Bery

feature

June 2014

Once upon a time there was – no, better: you are a thief who wanders through the cities and...

poetry

September 2011

The Cinematographer, a 42-year-old man named Miyagawa, aimed his camera directly at the sun, which at first probably seemed like a bad idea

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

Last night Kurosawa’s woodcutter strode through the forest, his axe on his shoulder. Intense sunlight stabbed and sparkled and...

Art

October 2015

Licence to Play

Thirza Wakefield

Art

October 2015

In his 1992 essay ‘In Search of the Centaur’, the writer and critic Phillip Lopate described the essay-film as...

 

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