When Lynsey Pollard became a mother ten years ago, she realised it wasn’t just single mothers who were lacking representation in children’s books – the issue extended to race, disability, family set-ups, gender, culture, class and basically anything that fell...
Liseli, from the BLOT team, sat down with author Garry Kilworth to uncover the journey of his impressive career. We’ll get to the novelisation of Highlander, to the crazy adventures that came with travelling across the world from the age of 15 to spending 19 years in...
Social worker by day, writer by night, Luna McNamara is the author of Psyche and Eros, a feminist retelling of the Greek myth of the same name. The book was subject to a four-way bidding war for publishing rights in the U.S., and has received translation deals in 11...
Last weekend, BLOT Magazine attended Sheaf Poetry Festival in Sheffield. It celebrates the best in UK poetry, spoken word and lyrics, taking place in venues across Sheffield and the Peak District, and online. This year, the festival themes were activism, brains and...
When you think of classic books, are you transported back to your English literature classroom; staring out the window whilst your teacher bored you with Shakespeare? I can admit too, when I first started reading classic literature, I could not get my head around...
