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Authors ALLAN RADCLIFFE


Clare Archibald is one of the most interesting and formally ambitious writers and artists in the country. She is interested in the nature of place, time and movement, and her interdisciplinary work carries an utterly distinctive and exhilarating power.


Martin MacInnes JOMA WEST


If you’re after something fun and bonkers, Olga Wojtas’ Miss Blaine series (Saraband Books) is a witty, intertextual


AUTHOR LAURA HIRD


Joma West’s vision in Face (tordotcom) is a knife-sharp exploration of the pervasive, corrosive power of online personas and performative society; this book is original, engaging and disturbing, and it deserves to be read far more widely. Lorraine Wilson


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delight with many laugh-out-loud moments. It’s simply screaming to be made into a TV series. Ever Dundas


Allan Radcliffe is an accomplished short story writer whose prose gleams with a spare beauty, so I’m really excited to see him bring that to his début novel, The Old Haunts (Fairlight Books), a queer coming- of-age tale set in 1980s and ’90s Edinburgh. Mary Paulson-Ellis


Laura Hird’s short story collection Nail and Other Stories (Rebel Inc) is an amazing introduction to Hird’s writing and should be included in more lists—as should all of her work. Jenni Fagan


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