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J.M. Holmes
J.M. Holmes won the Burnett Howe prize for fiction at Amherst College, and received fellowships at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. He has worked in educational outreach in Iowa, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review and HOW Journal. Sceptre will publish How Are You Going To Save Yourself in August 2018.

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Fiction

October 2017

J.M. Holmes

Fiction

October 2017

My auntie Sammy had real red-velvet cake — not that she had the time to make it, bread-winning at Glaxo-Smith-Kline while my uncle Eddy...

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Essay

Issue No. 20

Notes on the history of a detention centre

Felix Bazalgette

Essay

Issue No. 20

Looking back at Harmondsworth as he left, after 52 days inside, Amir was struck by how isolated the detention...

feature

October 2013

The Good Soldier

Jess Cotton

feature

October 2013

Two hundred names are inscribed in a totemic list that opens Alice Oswald’s Memorial. The deaths of the Greek heroes,...

poetry

November 2014

Like Rabbits

Bethan Roberts

poetry

November 2014

When my husband unrolled the back door of the brewery’s lorry and hoisted first one cage, then another, onto...

 

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