In Clover is a beautiful and inspiring adventure magazine with a focus on slow living and offline escapes. I picked up a copy of volume two at 'Magazines For Good', a STACK magazines event to raise money for refugees, at the end of last year, and over the dark winter months it's been the perfect magazine…
'That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels, you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others as they see themselves'. - John Green You may know John Green's name. Whether it's as an author of young adult fiction; the man that wrote The Fault In Our Stars,…
A Valentines takeover is not as scary as it sounds; nobody's going to get hurt. Simply, if you're stuck for what to do this year, whether you're single or in a relationship, or fancy a change from set menu dinner dates, you should check out this Arts Bites guide to the alternative Valentines Day. Forget…
BBC Radio Two's annual short story competition for kids, 500 WORDS, is open for submissions again, and, although not eligible to take part, I'm pretty excited about the contest this year! I listen to Chris Evans's Breakfast Show on weekday mornings, so last year I caught the hype about 500 WORDS 2013, and read the…
I love discovering exciting ways that new writing is being celebrated; whether it's slam poetry nights like Come Rhyme With Me or online-only literary magazines such as Synaesthesia Magazine, so I was really pleased to be given Popshot Magazine as a Christmas gift and lost no time devouring their latest issue on the theme…
The Poetry Tent at Latitude Festival was a great place to rest our weary aching legs and also see some pretty great poets perform. A month later I'm still raving about seeing William Letford on Saturday afternoon. He has a broad Scottish accent, and in his clipped, thick brogue, the words of his poems wiggled…
I came back from Latitude after falling in love with the festival! The site was gorgeous, with stages set into the forest and a lake. We did spend a good chunk of each day seeing bands, but it wasn't all music, music, music. I was lucky enough to see a few literary based events in…
I'm off to my first ever Latitude Festival tomorrow and I could not be more excited! As well as the fantastic weather (sorry wellies, I think you're staying at home this year), the abundance of live literary events is really incredible, considering that Latitude is primarily a music festival. Latitude began 7 years ago in…
This summer I've been soaking up the good weather and some really great reads in equal measure. This collection of short stories was lent to me by a lovely friend, who has a brilliant and pretty dark taste in literature so I knew I was in for a treat! I drank up the pages, every…
