Beyond the Walls 2020 Daniel Sluman

Beyond the Walls 2020 Daniel SlumanFor writers, walls are challenges 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 2020, a new generation of writing talent will be given their chance to do just that. In the latest edition of this much loved anthology, Creative Writing students from York St John University present the very best fiction, non fiction and poetry to emerge from the

Although his dream of making a film about his deaf mute father is never realised

and a people shape a very special place

monsters who pass among us

we intimately encounter mortality and tread the balance between visceral wisdom and the intellect

Anne Stevenson

His poetry is both simple and complex – tender

cruelty and arguments about war

" Common Cause tells the hard story of this simple idea

and is at work on a further story collection

His other books include Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice

Author Digby Fairweather is a jazz cornettist

Interview by Eskandar Habache