The Teachers Are Afraid Of The Pupils - Morrissey Sons Of The Silent Age - David Bowie Late-Flowering Lust - Sir John Betjemen Desolation Row - Bob Dylan After Hours - The Velvet Underground
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Short story
In Chap-book
Title:
The Plains Of Anhedonia
Excerpt:
High streets, high rises. The city below a wheel whose hub is the place where you remain immobile, listening to the hollow sounds emanating from the gin palaces at midnight. Overhead tower the sinister spectres of virtual weapon systems and pornographic soft-drink commercials while sexually liberated young women prowl the cityscape in search of vulnerable young men, their universal thirst for the divine temporarily diverted by the thrilling sight of huge cars with sleek fins and curved cars with chrome-encrusted bumpers...
In Dreams - Roy Orbison If I Could Only Win Your Love - The Louvin Brothers Yes Sir I Can Boogie - Baccara Manananggal - HALO HALO Vulture - Micachu & the Shapes
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
PS, Wrong Cowboy Town and Allusions
Excerpt:
I’m watching the filament blow in super slow motion. First a flare, then moustaches of smoke curling up the bulb as the feel of recent happening goes brown. I play the whole footage again; the light outside the bulb, how it turns green then a trickle burns off the coil and drops like a sleeper’s arm...
Exile Vilify - The National Money Is King - Lee Fields & The Expressions Cure For This - Golden Smog Yes/No - Shawn Anthony Just So - Agnes Obel
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Novel extract
In Chap-book
Title:
The Robbing Hoodies
Excerpt:
I seem to have spent my life playing catch-up. Not just in the sense of not having what other people had, although there is that; more like things only make sense to me hours or days after they make sense to other people. It’s something I only realised recently, when all of what I’m about to tell you started...
Swinging On A Star - Bing Crosby Impossibly Beautiful - Julie Feeney Cripple And The Starfish - Antony & The Johnsons Sam's Town - The Killers Groove Is In The Heart - Deelite
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Flash fiction
In Chap-book
Title:
Conjoined
Excerpt:
“I don’t care a feather or a fig.”
It’s one of Denny’s favourite sayings. She over-uses it, just like she cack-hands her eyebrow pencil. Puts it on with a trowel, she does, thinks Mel. That’s what best friends are for; thinking stuff like that...
Andro - Oneohtrix Point Never Northern Lights - St. Vincent Gimme Danger - Iggy Pop Lightspeed Disco - Sabrepulse Always - Erasure
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Novel extract
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Everything's Fine
Excerpt:
Shirt tie shoes jacket. Here I am. Sitting nervously in a room on the top floor of the office. This is my boss’s floor. I am waiting for my superior to come and assess my performance over this last month. My performance has not been good. My performance has been bad. The assessment room is made of marble and gold. There is a platinum fountain full of champagne. There are gargoyles pointing out from the top corners of the room. The table is covered with fur and has elephant tusks for legs...
Dance Like A Monkey - New York Dolls Kurt Angle's Entrance Music (Medals) I Can't Get Behind That - William Shatner Feat. Henry Rollins Building A Body - Marnie Stern In A Rut - The Ruts
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Change The World One County At A Time, Start With Essex and Wrestling With Zizek
Excerpt:
We catch the early train from Liverpool Street and meet the sun halfway, its first rays making bunny shadows across long Essex fields using real bunnies— before the rusting sprawl of Harwich International makes a nonsense of the buzzword post-industrial: creaking schooners, packed crates, splintered pallets, worldly goods, Tesco-bound, from China with Love...
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Alice - Tom Waits Through The Looking Glass - Pete Doherty White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane Drink Me - Anna Nalick
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Short story
In Chap-book
Title:
Alice Of Sunderland
Excerpt:
The hot light bulb smell is tempered by baby oil. Garlic breath and curried fingers lost under the sweet smell of Bulgari Rose Essentielle. Heard that the tradition of a bride carrying flowers on her wedding day goes back to when women couldn’t afford to bath. To mask their stench, they’d use daisies, hydrangeas, hollyhock, pansies, forget-me-nots. At the Rabbit Hole, the girls use Coco Chanel and Calvin Klein...
Thursday Afternoon - Brian Eno Water No Get Enemy - Fela Kuti Berceuse Opus 57 - Chopin Entre Dos Aguas - Paca De Lucia Cello Suites - JS Bach
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
All Self And Not Much Else and A Fire Starts
Excerpt:
What if my words are lost, joining catalogues and calendars, water-damaged picture frames, jars of musty red lentils, an old bra whose underwiring bursts through the seams like a pioneer. What if I cannot find myself amongst chewed biros, travelcards and pencil shavings...
Beauty Towne - Xiu Xiu Rue The Whirl - Boards of Canada What We Loved Was Not Enough - Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra It Never Entered My Mind - Sarah Vaughan Make Your Move - The Delgados
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Novel extract
In Chap-book
Title:
To Eat The Sky Like An Apple
Excerpt:
There among the tangle of weeds, unruly shrubs, and rusted sheets of mesh fencing lay the semi-decomposed corpse of a stag. Ribs broke through ruined flesh to sparkle in sheaths of ice. Eyeless sockets gaped fathomlessly. Antlers, impervious to decay, stretched indefatigably skyward like the branches of some great cosmic tree, each rapier point aiming at an unknown constellation. Though the cause of death was difficult to determine, the unnatural angles at which the creature’s legs lay interlocked at the knee joints suggested that it may have lost its footing and tumbled from the frosted slope. More perplexing was that such a beast should be found at all so far into the heart of the city...
Iain Aitch's playlist of songs it would be better to play at your wedding than Katy Perry:
Real Thing - Tina Britt Push The Button - Sugababes Really Together - Bob Andy & Marcia Griffiths Safety Pin Stuck In My Heart - Patrick Fitzgerald I Get The Sweetest Feeling - Jackie Wilson
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Short story
In Chap-book
Title:
A Private View
Excerpt:
When we had decided upon the Cochran Gallery in Stoke Newington, its owners, Lucinda and Hugh, had been hanging a show consisting of work by two new artists. One was exhibiting derivative Rothko-style coloured canvases, but the other was showing a far more interesting set of paintings, which depicted London tourist sites undergoing terrorist attacks. The clever part was that the paintings were done in the style of the Sunday watercolour artist, with shrapnel, explosions and charred flesh all rendered in blobby washes of colour so that only close examination of the small canvases revealed the horror that lay within...
God Save The Queen - The Sex Pistols The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum) - Fun Boy Three Children Of The Revolution - T-Rex Victoria - The Kinks Borstal Breakout - Sham 69
Submission Date:
18 Mar 2012
Category:
Novel extract
In Chap-book
Title:
Abide With Me
Excerpt:
Things settle down pretty quick at school after Kenny goes. Wilkins is off for ages and when he comes back, he's a fuckin shell. Kenny really made his mark on that cunt. No fucker wants to know him, and he got chucked down The Gobbin Chamber twice in the first week – first time by his own fuckin brother. Ain't sayin he never had it comin, but I never went near when they threw him in. Couldn't look down that pit without thinkin of Kenny...
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