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Aug 21, 20212 min read

Roberta Beary - guest poetry reader for The Phare's COAST issue

"As guest poetry reader for this issue of The Phare, I learned something unexpected about my own writing process. It is hard to put into...

Aug 12, 20214 min read

Submission tips from our short fiction guest reader

After Dave Wakely, our short fiction guest reader for The Phare Autumn 21 issue had finished his reading duties, he offered to send us a...

Jun 17, 20212 min read

Memory’s Museum of Curiosities

Most writers, at some point in their writing lives, will have sat despondently, notepad in lap, or in the blue light of a computer...

Feb 23, 20213 min read

Time for a catch-up

Hello to all our members, readers and writers. We hope you’re all managing to survive lockdown and that your love of the written word is...

Dec 11, 20203 min read

Looking back, thinking ahead

In six short (mainly locked-down and socially distanced) months, The Phare has travelled from a few ideas over coffee and a (shared)...

Dec 10, 20201 min read

A little bit of festive fun!

The Phare's Advent Calendar is here and waiting for you to open it's doors!

Nov 19, 20202 min read

Turning fiction into reality – just a matter of using the right words

We all know the effect reading a good book can have. Accomplished writing helps us invest in the characters; cry with them, laugh with...

Sep 29, 20203 min read

WHY START A LIT MAG? BECAUSE IT’S MAGICAL. (Oh yes, and a bit about the tip jar!)

In The New Yorker a few years ago, Stephanie Burt asked the question “Why on Earth would you start a literary magazine?” She went on to...

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