‘Dressed Lamb’ by Ricky Hawthorne

HCE received a lot of high-quality submissions for The Brutal Issue – sadly, too many to fit inside the magazine! So we offered some of our shortlisted contributors the chance to be published on our website. Keep an eye on our social media for more great writing like...
Review: Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera

Review: Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera

Fire & Dust – the Return of DrayZera: a review by Aarushi Shetty   After being shut for a few weeks for expansion, The Big Comfy Bookshop reopened at the perfect time to host the Fire & Dust open-mic in July. The newly renovated shop was bigger,...

Coventry International Poetry Exchange 2017

  Two Coventry poets, Andrea Mbarushimana and Russ Berry, have been selected to travel to Cork (Ireland) to perform their work. Andrea and Russ will head out to Ireland for two days next week (24/7/2017), and will also attend a reading in Conalkilty.   Cork...
Fire & Dust MEETS DrayZera

Fire & Dust MEETS DrayZera

Reviewed by: Sophie Rowson (HCE Fiction Editor)   New and familiar faces performed at the Big Comfy Bookshop in March. Poignant words of loss and the disappointments of love started off the event. The flames of anger were lit when frustration around politics and...