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A group of 227 runners brought the Minster Milers’ Mash back to Ilminster on Sunday morning for the first time since 2019.

Terrain.org 14th Annual Contest winners: Tim Raphael for Poetry, Kathryn Duane for Nonfiction, and Hannah Smith for Fiction.

Now open: Terrain.org 14th Annual Contests in Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction, judged by Ross Gay, Toni Jensen, and Talia Lakshmi Kolluri.

The award, championing small presses with fewer than five staff, was won by The Doloriad – an audaciously original novel set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia

On May 26, the writer of the BAFTA-winning drama Sitting In Limbo, Stephen S

Sunday 2 May 2021 An artists rendition of actress Lorraine Toussaint and writer Ingrid Persaud for the Alexander app. PHOTOS COURTESY GIA KUAN During his lifetime, John “Boysie” Singh was a womaniser, gambling king, arsonist, preacher, pirate, thief, human trafficker, gangster, smuggler and mass murderer. In a feature titled The Vagabond Rajah, which is exclusive to the Alexander app, award-winning Trinidadian author Ingrid Persaud has chosen to tell some of Singh’s story. “I have been...

Ingrid Persaud Ingrid Persaud, Trinidad-born writer living in London, whose debut novel Love After Love published in 2020 by Faber in the UK is shortlisted for the hugely prestigious Costa First Novel Award. Persaud won the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017 and the BBC National Short Story Award in 2018. She read law at the LSE and was an academic before studying fine art at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect, The Guardian, The Independent, N...