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Flash Fiction: Gills by Gary Budden

Gills by Gary Budden 2012 If you eat yourself, is it cannibalism? There’s a perception that Islington is indelibly middle-class, well-mannered and nice. That’s true of certain parts and ... Read More...

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Short Story: How to Wait by Maria Adelmann

Maria Adelman

How to Wait by Maria Adelmann Prepare yourself haphazardly. For example, get a dog. You may think you want a large dog who will growl at strangers, bark at robbers, chase down assailants,... Read More...

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Poetry: The Library Unbound by Claire Quigley

Claire Quigley

The smell of them is gone: dust-dry, the fear of fire, I used to brush clouds of it from my hair. They were reserved, a parliament of silence, words laced tight inside each slender page. The first... Read More...

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Claire Hazelton interviews PP Wong

Claire Hazelton

In-Between Claire Hazelton interviews PP Wong, author of The Life of a Banana (Legend Press) We have already discarded our proper names; by the second or third return of correspondence, PP Wong is... Read More...

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Poetry: Life in a Day by Jacqui Rowe

Jacqui Rowe

Our day was daffodils. I opened my eyes in equinoctial dawn, shaped by winds and cloud saw buds crack that would be fruit for our descendants. No gloom until an evening star told me I was ageing.... Read More...

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Review: Honouring Fathers and Telling Tales

Jacqui Rowe

Honouring Fathers and Telling Tales Jacqui Rowe reviews The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood (ed. Emma Wright and Rachel Piercey) and The Other Side of Sleep (ed. Cherry Potts, Arachne Press) Re... Read More...

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Poetry: The Sword Swallower by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

The Sword Swallower First it’s cutlery, missing from the kitchen table. Steak knives clinking under your school jumper – holes in the sleeves cut by your elbows, threads you unravel in Geograph... Read More...

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Contents: Issue 4 – November 2014

Robert Harper

Issue 4 Contents Bare Fiction Magazine Issue 4 Poetry | Fiction | Theatre | Articles Published November 20th 2014 Buy your copy now or subscribe to get three issues in print or digital e... Read More...

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Flash Fiction: Gills by Gary Budden

Short Story: How to Wait by Maria Adelmann

Poetry: The Library Unbound by Claire Quigley

Claire Hazelton interviews PP Wong

Poetry: Life in a Day by Jacqui Rowe

Review: Honouring Fathers and Telling Tales

Poetry: The Sword Swallower by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh

Contents: Issue 4 – November 2014

Poetry: Letters to Brazil by Paul Stephenson

Poetry: Wooden doll, total being by Jenna Clake

Poetry: There’s chaos in my cornflakes by William Gee

Short Story: Sandgrown by Sarah Brooks

Flash Fiction: Growing Things by Wendy W. Ralph

Short Story: The Old Rehearsal Rooms by Clare Weze

Bare Fiction Prize 2017 Results

Contents: Issue 10 – November 2017

Contents: Issue 9 – April 2017