MIR Issue 1 - Autumn 2004

Issue 1 Editors: Lamya Al-Khraisha, Sally Hinchcliffe, Alessandra Sartore, Amanda Schiff, Sue Tyley, Cathy Wasson, Rachel Wright

Project Director: Julia Bell

ISBN 978-0-9547933-0-2

Issue 1 is still available from Amazon.

"From eye-popping to quiet and assured . . . sure to put Birkbeck’s course on the literary map"
- Jill Dawson

"A great chance to read some of tomorrow’s best writers today"
- Geoff Dyer

"In the face of such authorial certainty, there’s a deep readerly pleasure in just submitting, believing, enjoying"
- Julie Myerson

"What all the Birkbeck...writers have in common is that they are 'working on a novel'. This may be very good cultural news"
- Times Literary Supplement, September 17 2004

"Jolly good it is too, and many of its graduates will go far."
- The Guardian, October 13 2004

"Internment by Rachel Wright and Falling by Sophie Warne both combine authentic detail of their respective worlds of work with personal concerns impressively.

"Heather Williams, in Blind Friend Date, intercuts her pin-sharp descriptions of the morning after the night before with detail of the night before itself, while Amanda Schiff reveals a passion for 'Don't Look Now' in Anamorphic Breakup, a disorientating identity-crisis romp through a familiar Venice of decaying churches, waterborne funerals and unresolved grief.

"Helen Pike's novel extract, Hellfire Corner, kicks off promisingly: 'In our bedroom I can hear my husband making love to Marieke, his dead son's Belgian girlfriend.' Job done -- I'll buy it."
- TimeOut London, December 8 - 15 2004