Permanent EmotionPermanent Emotion is a captivating anthology which highlights the exceptional writing talent currently emerging from the North of England. Edited by SJ Bradley and supported by the Walter Swan Trust, it features graduates of the Northern Short Story Festival Academy programme, which has played a crucial role in nurturing the unique voices of writers based in the North since 2017. No two of these stories are the same: they range from playful,

She fell in love with and in 1980 married Jimmy Boyle

Lush with detail

Julia Bird

previously known to English-language readers for his highly-acclaimed autobiography I Saw Ramallah (Bloomsbury

spider-mites mealybugs and white termites

when Cigarette was first published in Sweden it heralded the arrival of a bold new voice in contemporary nordic literature

red and green – and by deep feelings of intimacy and betrayal

The ship sleeps on the shore

In her late thirties and obsessed with her ex-husband Mary lives in her childhood home – a rambling brownstone on New York’s Lower East Side

the wider world

Taken prisoner at Calaceite

a child builds a snowman out of ice with her mum's friend Joyce and skirts round the edge of some adult truths