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My Venus
CHARLIE KITE – Winner of the Spring 2021 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Amit Chaudhuri.
Apr 7, 20215 min read
Christmas Cards from Marla
LAURA HANKINS – Runner-up of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Jan 22, 20218 min read
Three Lovely Boys
ROSE MORLEY - Winner of the Autumn 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Monica Ali.
Jan 15, 20218 min read
The Box on the Shelf
LUKE BATEMAN - Winner of the Summer 2020 ORB Short Fiction Competition, judged by Daisy Johnson.
Dec 16, 20207 min read
Rising
ROWAN WILSON - Winner of the Spring 2020 ORB Fiction Competition, judged by Will Eaves
Apr 1, 20208 min read
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ADAM HUSAIN - 'Amid the mud of the shore, which is rich and deep, we (once) saw a half-submerged thing. It was mud-covered too, bluish-gray'
Mar 30, 20207 min read
In Haedeki
SHANLEY MCCONNELL - ‘If everyone were this sad on the outside, the world would be silent and lonely.’
Mar 25, 20207 min read
The Nabob of Chipping Dean
WILLIAM HUTTON - As the world went awry around him, Roger Press, lay in bed, eyes blinking up toward the ceiling
Mar 21, 20208 min read
Things As They Are
HUGHIE ROGERS-COLTMAN - Examining 2019's finest examples of the resurgent genre of nature-writing
Jan 1, 20209 min read
Thought Patterns
GEORGE RUSHTON - In Ted Chiang's latest short story collection, meaning emerges through patterns, structure, and movement,.
Jan 1, 20206 min read
Milk Tray
MAYA LITTLE - The winner of this term’s fiction competition, judged by Julia Armfield
Dec 16, 20196 min read
The Violence of Woman
BETHAN JAMES - Women behaving badly against the backdrop of the sea.
Jul 27, 20195 min read
A Journey Home
YUQING WENG -The winning story of this term's ORB fiction competition, judged by Patrick McGuinness.
Jun 28, 20197 min read
The Funeral
Let me tell you about the whole affair. I remember it well: it was the early summer of thirty-nine, when Tunis started to become...
Jun 10, 20197 min read
Leftovers
Brennig Davies’ ‘Leftovers’ is the winning entry of the HT19 ORB fiction competition, adjudicated by award-winning author and journalist...
May 25, 20198 min read
The Lure of Mimicry
JAMES MCNAMEY -Carolinn Hughes' translates all the sensations of her verse into her autobiographical debut novel
Nov 15, 20188 min read
Not Them
At one or two or three in the morning all you see are the faces. They stare from walls and windows, trees, street lamps, subway signs....
May 19, 20176 min read
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