Creative Non-Fiction

History is a presence in everyday life and few would likely combat such a sentiment. However, the actual study of history, namely historical objects, be they visual or material, has long remained an academic endeavour. Yet in the last few…

The Winter’s bite was better than the numbing hum inside. So I would stand out at night barefoot just to feel the air’s tang while I smoked. Pulling heavy on my cigarette beneath the stars. It was like a miracle cure. The therapy stirred…

Donal Fogarty explores blurring the boundary between fiction and non-fiction in his personal narrative "Bad Parking" Me & Kirsty It was Kirsty Young that did it. It was Sunday, 17th December 2017 and I was sleeping in my van in an…

“No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.” Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. The above quote is…

This Halloween, Guts have teamed up with the annual Bram Stoker festival to deliver an event celebrating all things blood. Young Blood promises to be a 'bespoke festival edition of Guts that tells people’s common experiences of blood - from…