by Administrator | Jul 23, 2021 | Readers & Writers
No Princesses By Lucy Campion The day I met God, He was wearing Grandma’s jumper. The maroon one that smelt like her perfume and bacon butties on Saturday mornings. I wanted to walk up to him and fill my lungs with the smell, but He was on one side of the Sky Mirror...
by Administrator | Jul 16, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Sky Mirror I gaze down onto earth how beautiful is it i want to go down there, but how can I? I kneel in front of the mirror gazing up at it for a long time, in and out of consciousness, tears rolling down my face as the emotions wash over me. The edge of the mirror...
by Administrator | Jul 14, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Uh-oh BY HARRY WILDING Peter whacks the ball across the table. Eve’s outstretched arm reaches out and sends it back to him, over the tiny net. He manages to return it, just, but it bounces high, leaving Eve with the perfect match-winning opportunity. She watches the...
by Administrator | Oct 27, 2020 | Quick Reads
It was sweet, last night, to be at Nottingham Playhouse, to see a new play by James Graham. The playwright is from Mansfield and used to work on the door at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal but this was his first new play to be staged in the city where, as he told Geeta...
by Administrator | Jan 11, 2019 | Quick Reads
Nottingham can lay claim to many firsts in history: first tarmacked road, first league football club (as of writing), first library exclusively for children. But to Stephen Mangan, it’s about seconds: it’s here in Nottingham, at the Playhouse, that he took...
