Pretext: Fiction, Poetry, Criticism: Experience. Volume 2

by Julia Bell, Paul Magrs

A literary magazine in book format from pen&inc, an imprint based at the University of East Anglia, each issue of Pretext offers a unique combination of quality, cutting-edge fiction, poetry and criticism. Issue 2 contains: Martin Amis on writing his memoirs; poetry from W.G. Sebald; Lorna Sage interviews Christine Brooke-Rose. Plus new fiction from: Bridget O'Connor; Peter Ho Davies; Alan Beard; Jackie Gay and Christopher Fowler and introducing bestselling Australian writer Andrew McGahan (author of 'Praise' and '1988') with a new story, 'Kill the Old'.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Librarian note: there are multiple authors with this name on Goodreads.

I was born in Bristol but raised in Wales (I can speak Welsh!) and have published two novels for young adults - Massive and Dirty Work, both published by Macmillan in the UK. In the US Massive is published by Simon and Schuster and Dirty Work by Walker Books. Massive has also been translated into ten languages, including Thai! I also wrote and co-edited the bestselling Creative Writing Coursebook while I was working at the University of East Anglia, which is also published by Macmillan.

I am a Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University College of London where I teach on the MA Creative Writing and co-ordinate the annual publication The Mechanics' Institute Review and the new web portal The Birkbeck Writers' Hub.

I am currently working on my fourth novel - Bad Faith - and collaborating on work for the screen.

Reviews

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's great because I'm in it. There's also poetry from W G Sebald,an interview with Martin Amis, and fiction from Peter Ho Davies, Jackie Gay & Christopher Fowler. It's available for one penny second hand from amazon (uk). What more do you want?