When Phoebe first arrived in Texas it felt like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. She had unknowingly drunk the magical potion and shrunk to the size of a white rabbit. Everything was huge. Unlike my peers who were spending their teens discovering the wonders of alcohol, snogging and spreading rumours, I spent my time hidden in a…
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No Signal by Matthew Barton
Beeeeep. No signal, the phone said. I can’t call Meridith and tell her that her cat’s dead. I can’t call Terry and set up that wood delivery, get a fire going. It’s horrible cold. Beeeeep. Yes? Barbara? Yes, Agatha. Oh, ok, yeah, sorry Carol. Yeah, bye. Beeeeep. I can’t get in contact with anyone I…
White Blank Page by Carlota Maura
I closed my eyes and absorbed the darkness, letting everything around me come alive. I had roamed the streets for hours, taking it all in: the smell of melted mozzarella on the world’s finest pizzas; the ghostly decadence of the city’s oldest buildings; a loud melody, Chopin perhaps, can be heard through an open window;…
Never Judge a Book by its Cover by Victoria Knight
Graphic Story by Victoria Knight
The Hedgehogs’ Great Big Sleep by Helen Dreher
Join Henry and Holly Hedgehog in this delightful tale. Story and illustrations by Helen Dreher.
Press Announcement – Fred Holland Poetry Award
Image: (L-R): David Smith of the Frederick Holland Trust; competition winner Raef Boylan; English and Creative writing course director Alyson Morris; and senior lecturer in English and Creative Writing Tim Kelly. Student’s prize winning poetry captures Coventry’s essence English and Creative Writing student, Raef Boylan, has won the inaugural Fred Holland Poetry Collection Award, named…
Coventry Words Magazine Vol.5 Sept 2014
Please find the latest Coventry Words magazine here. The magazine for student writers at Coventry University.
A digital picturebook by Victoria Osorio Pavon
This story is for children aged 6-7. It is created and illustrated by Erasmus student, Victoria Osorio Pavon, who is studying English.
It’s Mine by Lydia Otubanjo
– Does the soft blend of primary colours scattered across my body, frustrate you to assume a frantic dark and light shadow occurs in my past. Why? – Do the curls seated below my eyelids offend you, that you render them unnatural with your cosmetic praise and implied imitation. Why? – Does the length of…
Award-winning Poetry Collection by Raef Boylan
This is the award-winning poetry collection from the Fred Holland Poetry Collection Award 2014, including Catherdral Lanes at 19.30 on a Sunday, Letter to My Home Town, Postponement and ‘Coventriert’.