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A monthly newsletter from the editors of Gutter, Scotland's leading literary journal. Fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews and more.
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what even are trees? (opens the original)
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Time has flown by since the launch of issue #34 in August, and it’s been wonderful seeing your copies out in the world. Now we don’t have favourites, but if we did, this shot of Gutter next to the Sagrada Família by Barcelona-based contributor Ian Farnes would be up there:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QkiK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffccd9dd6-da93-4820-
mapping a life (opens the original)
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And there we go again . . . another issue of Gutter is out in the world. What a wonderful feeling that is! We’ve already had our first launch event, in Portobello Bookshop last week, and there’s another one tomorrow (12th August), in Glasgow. It’s at Alchemy Experiment, and will feature writing by Cheryl Follon, Sam Tongue, Chisom Okoronkwo and Sophia Archontis. Please do come along: you can find all the details here.Those of you who are subscribers will have already received your copies of the
the spice of watered earth (opens the original)
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At this point in our publication cycle, with the next issue at the printers and our launch events in the diary, we’re all just eager to get our hands on a physical copy. The preparation is always a drawn-out process – reading, editing, proof-reading – and then waiting, waiting, waiting. What we can do though is to share this rather beautiful cover, and to tell you just a few of the writers whose work appears in Issue 34. We’ve got some amazing fiction writers this time, including the multi-award
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