M.A. Griffin won the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition with The Poison Boy in 2012, writing under the name Fletcher Moss. He works as an assistant head teacher at a school in Greater Manchester, having previously worked as a classroom teacher, shelf-stacker and van driver in France and Spain. @fletchermoss Sneakers and Payback by M. … Continue reading
Guest Post by Miriam Halahmy My new novel, Behind Closed Doors, (Firefly Press, July 2018) deals with the growing problem of teenage homelessness. According to the Joseph Rowntree Association, around 75,000 young people contact homeless services each year. The main trigger for youth homelessness is relationship breakdown. Young people are so vulnerable on the streets … Continue reading
An exploration of disability, its social perception and lived experience, from a poetic and personal perspective I was born different. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Dis_ability is an influential and forceful collection of poems highlighting the need for genuine social and ethical change in order for differences to be understood as something to … Continue reading
Bella Fisher is stuck in EXAM HELL – with only the promise of a weekend at the RebelRocks festival with her mates as a reward afterwards. OK, so she can’t actually afford a ticket and will have to work as a litter picker and toilet scrubber, but it’s still going to be epic: the best … Continue reading
