Flight Paths: Yacub in Dubai

Last week marked Refugee Week here in the UK. As our contribution to the on-going discussions and events, Kate Pullinger and I are going to release one new ‘Flight Paths’ story every day for the next five days. These five new short mini-stories take five plot hotpoints, or flashpoints, to animate significant moments in the lives of the characters that … Read More

Reconstructing Mayakovsky – A Novel of the Future, by Illya Szilak

http://www.reconstructingmayakovsky.com If you have a few minutes, I recommend having a look at this wonderful piece of digital writing by Illya Szilak, with animation and graphic design by Pelin Kirca, that fictionally and factually explores one of the most important (and overlooked) writers of the last century. “Set in the future, Reconstructing Mayakovsky revisits the past to make sense of … Read More