For the introverts and homebodies, being stuck indoors may sound like a pretty relieving idea, at least for a short while. The world outside has descended in...

You don't really know how much work a title does until you don't quite get it right.

Happy Valentine's Day — our gift to you is this slightly cheeky, totally amusing Valentine's story by the wonderful Gerry Marsh: 'Priceless Love'. Hope you e...

Hello! Seems like ages since I've posted here. Hope 2020 is starting out well for you. Here's an update on what we've been up to. Also, I have a story for yo...

I contemplated taking the entire day off today, but around 5:00pm decided I had to write this. I shall start with this: Yes, it's uncomfortable to talk about...

In the opening line of my story ‘Dicks,’ the narrator asserts: “The only thing I like about men is their dicks.” I’m curious about the reader’s reaction to t...

When I started giving poetry readings for the first time, I found it fascinating what I learned about myself from audience responses. After one reading, a ma...

Little sticks and holes. All the same. As a person I am not sure if I am more of a vagina or a penis. Am I a carved sculpture that becomes a desert, a sea, a...

I started writing sex-themed pieces many years ago, in a workshop led by Irini Spanidou in New York. The prompt she gave was about character: Write about som...

As a writer living in London, it’s a familiar sight for me to see commuters fixed to their phones, playing Candy Crush, accessing emails, living past memorie...

This shriveled thing, this lazy, useless digit, bows down and cringes conscious of the shame, it brings about by acting like an idget and not living up to it...

I have this idea that every woman carries around within her a visual idea of what kind of penis she’d have if she were a man. Call me crazy, or maybe it’s th...

My writing has always been touched by the strange. More commonly inspired by ideas than by characters, it's the reason I'm drawn to speculative fiction, wher...

My short story “How I Lost My Virginity in a Lobster Trap” came into its form with a lot of input and collaboration from various people and writing groups to...

When I first read the concept for the Stories About Penises anthology I was very intrigued. I love tackling quirky and unique subject matter in my writing so...

On 17 October, we had our first reading for the Stories About Penises anthology (Goldsmiths College, London). I was really pleased with the turnout, although...

I’m a classically-trained musician, and for many years played string quartets for weddings, receptions, and suchlike, but these days you’ll more likely find ...

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ― Mary Oliver My writing is dark. My poems a...

When it comes to how much sex belongs in a given story, opinions vary. My mother would say zero, period, as anything beyond hand-holding belongs solely in th...

Truth in Fiction and Memoir - Ann Rawson