Beyond the Walls 2018
Beyond the Walls 2018
York Centre for Writing (ed.)
Paperback
Writers have always regarded walls as a challenge to be overcome. Put a barrier in their way and they will tunnel under it, vault over it or simply blast their way straight through it.
In Beyond the Walls, creative writing students from York St John University continue this laudable tradition with a collection of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction that adroitly demolishes preconceived ideas about their so-called ‘snowflake’ generation.
Tackling global issues like war, the environment and animal cruelty as well as more intimate, human-scale subjects like grief, depression and transformation with crystalline clarity, their collective vision is unflinching, informed, aware and, ultimately, compassionate.
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Imprint: Valley Press
Published: March 2018
ISBN: 9781912436088
Catalogue no: VP0128
Page count: 130
Trim size: 216 x 140 mm
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Praise for Beyond the Walls 2018:
“With this anthology, we celebrate the achievements of this cohort of Creative Writing graduates, and of their determination and energy in creating the future. In the words of one of the writers and demolition experts included in this book, we hope that after graduation they continue to write and to live, ‘As if life was a pipe running under the Earth / And we burst it’.”
— Naomi Booth
About the author
York Centre for Writing is a hub at York St John University, home to a number of writing events, projects and publications in collaboration with York Literature Festival and other community partners. The Centre curates two annual print publications, both published by Valley Press and providing commissioning, editing and publishing experience to undergraduate and postgraduate students: Beyond the Walls, an anthology of writing by students, and The York Literary Review, an international creative writing journal.