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Luke Melia
Luke Melia lives in London and writes fiction in his spare time. His work has been highly commended in a number of competitions including the Tom Howard/John H. Reid Short Story Contest and the Bristol Prize. His story, 'The Application', features in the Highland and Islands Short Story Associations’ (HISSAC) Winners Anthology, published in December 2014. Earlier this year, his story 'The Novel Factory' was included in Unthology 6, an anthology of short stories by new and established writers published by Unthank Books. The same story had previously won second prize in the Writers' Village International Short Fiction Award Summer 2014.

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The Incidental

Prize Entry

April 2015

Luke Melia

Prize Entry

April 2015

The automatic rifle fire was followed by an unnerving whistle at Ti’s ear. He gripped the shopping bags, grabbed Lo Ling’s arm and pulled...

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feature

April 2017

Everywhere and Nowhere

Vahni Capildeo

feature

April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language,...

Essay

Issue No. 18

The Disquieting Muses

Leslie Jamison

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   In Within Heaven and Hell (1996), Ellen Cantor’s voice-over tells the story of a doomed love affair...

poetry

June 2013

Belly

Melissa Lee-Houghton

poetry

June 2013

When I was fifteen I took my two little cousins into town and had them wait outside the tattoo...

 

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