Crystal glass terrarium, soft, smooth, glide, prove. Inside, a male and female pair, dolls with whom this glass cave I share. Performing for them every day, ironic, encouraging breaking, reaching […]
Tag: original work
Poem: The Past Slid Back
The past slid back and our childhood stands in a long-worn place: the plush of our hands by a stammering fire, the sputtering tongue of a candle then higher […]
The Secret Garden: A Short Story
Once upon a time, far away from the people of Europe, far in the North, there was a little island. Surrounded by deep waters and engrossed by towering waves, hardly […]
The Yorker’s 2017 Creative Writing Competition
The Yorker is proud to announce the title of its 2017 Magazine: ‘Beginnings!’ If you’re a poetry or short story writer and a student at The University of York, submit […]
Poem: No Eden
We strive to what you ask of us, Through rings and hoops Of fire and blood. Yet not for glory or fame Do the embattled generation work, But for the […]
‘Write Drunk, Edit Sober’: An Experience in Writing and Drinking
Whilst on summer holiday in New York, I took a walk through a sweltering Central Park. I was looking for a mobile book store, known as “The Strand”. There is […]
Short Story: The Tunnel
Keep moving. Look down. Don’t let them see you. They cackle. They screech. They haunt. I cannot see them, shrouded in shadows and mystery. They lurk in the corners of […]
Photography: Natural World by Bethany White
A glimpse of the beautiful natural world that surrounds us, from the reaching grasses to the towering trees.
Talking Heads: A Dance of Two
An adaption of Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett’s first meeting in Pride and Prejudice Mr Bingley: Once again I am blown away by the wonders and virtues life can bestow […]
Short Story: Chrysalis
She doesn’t watch; she observes. Nobody knows for certain that she exists but they have always sensed that she’s there. For many years she has gone unseen, blending with the […]