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"I'm fat," I hear myself saying. I look in the mirror. My face has
gone hot and red; I feel like I'm going to explode. "I'm fat." It
sizzles under my skin, puffing me up, pushing me out, making me
massive.
Weight has always been a big issue in Carmen's life. How could
it not? Her mom is obsessed with the idea that thin equals
beautiful, thin equals successful, thin equals the way to get what
you want. Carmen knows that as far as her mom is concerned, there
is only one option: be thin.
When her mother sweeps her off to live in the city, Carmen finds
that her old world is disappearing. As her life spirals out of
control Carmen begins to take charge of the only thing she can --
what she eats. If she were thin, very thin, could it all be
different?
The anthology will be published in May 2023, just ahead of Pride.
Containing 30 stories, non-fiction pieces, flash fiction and
poetry, the winning entries from an international competition to
capture the best of Queer writing today. Entry is open to anyone,
without restriction. Submissions will open on 15th August and close
on 1st October 2022. Winning authors will be notified in November
2022.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities
have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by
the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities,
identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender
and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in
relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how
unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable
insights from a range of international scholars across multiple
disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have
played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards
achieving social justice.
As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities
have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, been
exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these
inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and
governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these
three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book
uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together
invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across
multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities
have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards
achieving social justice.
A fully updated comprehensive guide for improving and practicing your
creative writing, including contributions from Ali Smith and Kit de Waal
The Creative Writing Coursebook, edited by Julia Bell and Paul Magrs,
takes aspiring writers through three stages of essential practice:
Gathering – getting started, learning how to keep notes, making
observations and using memory; Shaping – looking at structure, point of
view, character and setting; and Finishing – being your own critic,
joining workshops and finding publishers.
Fully updated and including a foreword by Marina Warner and
contributions from forty-four authors such as Kit de Waal and Amy
Liptrot, this is the perfect book for people who are just starting to
write as well as for those who want some help honing work already
completed. Filled with a wealth of exercises and activities, it will
inspire budding writers to develop and hone their skills. Whether
writing for publication, in a group or just for pleasure this
comprehensive guide is for anyone who is ready to put pen to paper.
EDITED BY ELAINE CANNING INTRODUCED BY JULIA BELL A collection of
new contemporary short stories by Welsh writers, comprising twelve
diverse stories about human relationships between people and
places, representing the winners of the 2021 Rhys Davies Short
Story Competition. Including short biographical notes on the
authors and an introduction by Guest Judge Julia Bell, a writer and
Course Director of the MA Creative Writing at Birbeck, University
of London The Rhys Davies Short Story Competition is a
distinguished national writing competition for writers born or
living in Wales. Originally established in 1991, Parthian is
delighted to publish the 2021 winning stories on behalf of the Rhys
Davies Trust and in association with Swansea University's Cultural
Institute. Previous winners of the prize have included Leonora
Brito, Tristan Hughes and Kate Hamer.
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A Cruel Suspicion
Julia Bell; Illustrated by Mae Cover Fresh Designs; Edited by Anna Faversham
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Hymnal (Paperback)
Julia Bell
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Late in the 1960s, before Bell was born, her father and mother
visited Aberaeron, a small fishing town on the west coast of Wales.
Here, her father heard a voice - which he knew to be God -
directing him to minister to the Welsh. Six months after she was
born in the early 1970s, they moved to Aberaeron where he took up
his first curateship. Over the next eighteen years they would move
to various parishes within a forty mile radius: first to Llangeler
a predominantly Welsh-speaking parish in the Teifi valley, then
back to Aberaeron where Bell's father became vicar, and then to a
larger and more Evangelical church in Aberystwyth. This unique
memoir in verse offers a series of snapshots about religion and
sexuality. In verse because it's how Bell remembers: snapshots in
words strung along a line, which somehow constitute a life.
Snapshots of another time from now, but from a time which tells us
about how Bell got here. Not the whole story, but her story. Of an
English family on a mission from God, of signs and wonders in the
Welsh countryside, of difference, and of faith and its loss.
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Angela Baxter; Illustrated by Cover Fresh Designs; Julia Bell
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An anthology of 22 stories set in the West Midlands and written by
past and present members of the influential Tindal Street Fiction
Group. Some authors ( e.g. Annie Murray, Amanda Smyth, Alan Beard,
Gaynor Arnold, Joel Lane, Mick Scully, Mez Packer, Jackie Gay) are
published novelists or story-writers. Others like Sibyl Ruth,
Charles Wilkinson, Roz Goddard and Polly Wright are better-known as
poets or dramatists. Fiona Joseph has written biography, Julia Bell
writes teenage fiction and Luke Brown and Kavita Bhanot have both
been editors as well as writers. New names included are Kit de
Waal, Natalie White, James B Goodwin, Anthony Ferner, Georgina
Bruce and Ryan Davis. Thje title story by Mick Scully has been
chosen by Nicholas Royle for 'Best Short Stories of 2013'.
'Ten minutes to midnight!' Jonathan shouts over the sound of the
blazing fire. Sparks rise into the sky and mingle with the stars.
'Only ten minutes!' Bevins says, falling down on his knees. 'So it
begins.' Rebekah has lived on the island her whole life, and it's
only now that she's starting to wonder what she might experience
outside her strict religious community. Alex has been sent to the
island to escape her dark past, and through her eyes it's a dark
and sinister place. Thrown together by chance, Rebekah and Alex
strike up an unlikely friendship and it's together that they
attempt to break free of their worlds and make a world of their
own. But when a kiss between the girls is witnessed by an islander
there is no escape they can make - the Rapture is coming for them
all.
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