The Junket

01/03/2016

Junket 16 is here! Jonathan Gharraie gets haunted, Helen Jukes keeps bees, Nick Haslam meets Syrian refugees, Jennifer Upton looks after a cat, then there's Wessie du Toit on South Africa, a musical Homer from Sam Kitchener and poetry by Holly Corfield Carr and Elena Wolff. Enjoy! http://thejunket.org/current-issue/

29/09/2015

A spanking new junket from the brilliant new eds Kristen Treen and Jon Day

29/09/2015

Junket 15 is now live, with an exceptional set of pieces for your autumn reading!

Kristen Treen on Bees; Lucy Barnes in the library; an (intentionally) yawn-inducing prose game by Eley Williams; Nathan Dunne on JFK's assassination and silence; Tim Smith-Laing listens to The Monkees; Francesca Wade casts an anthropological eye on hen parties, Damian Le Bas visits Gypsy stopping-places; Katrina Zaat writes about marriage; Joanne O'Leary plays with an Etch A Sketch; and two ballads of the north by Alex Niven.

Enjoy — see you in the depths of winter for some more warming Junket.

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16/06/2015

Dear Junketeers — we're pleased to announce the launch of The Junket issue 14, including: Paris, London, Colombia, a cold Virginia Woolf, a hot summer in Oxford, a becalmed literary ship, an STD clinic, and three excellent poems. Welcome!

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14/01/2015

At last, new Junket for your delectation. Issue 13 is published today, featuring knitting, stars, Brueg(h)els, old people, Sikhs, a wily fox and unread magazines. http://thejunket.org/current-issue/

Over the course of the past few years, I’ve become aware of threads, bright fibres, at the edges of my vision. Somewhere, someone has been weaving their way around the habitual bits and pieces of my… Read article

17/03/2014

Got the Monday blues? We've just published a terrific new short story for you. Read Beci Carver's "Rufus Emmanuel" over at The Junket.

Beci CarverRufus Emmanuel17th March 2014Rufus Emmanuel is the name of a nasty little creep I met at a party. He’s 9 years old, small for his age, tastelessly dressed, and he responds to everything I say with, ‘Really? That seems unlikely.’ The most interesting thing about Rufus Emmanuel is his dad,…

06/01/2014

New today at The Junket: we're delighted to publish Nick Richardson's new translation of the Norse poem 'Völuspá: The Seeress’s Prophecy'. Something for a wintry evening: http://thejunket.org/2014/01/archive/voluspa-the-seeresss-prophecy/

Nick RichardsonVöluspá: The Seeress’s Prophecy6th January 2014A Preface to the Poem‘Völuspá’ compresses the whole of the Norse vision of the universe’s history and future into its 60-odd short stanzas. It is narrated by a seeress, or Völva, who is requested by Odin to share her memories and propheci...

16/09/2013

Today at The Junket we are excited to publish 'Making Of', new non-fiction by Encore Award winner Ned Beauman http://thejunket.org/2013/09/archive/making-of/

Ned BeaumanMaking Of16th September 2013Jon’s initial plan is to smear a teddy bear with dog food and drag it through the streets of Kilyos. The town is full of stray dogs, so he hopes that by the time we get back out into the countryside we’ll have a comet’s tail of mongrels chasing after our two ca...

14/08/2013

Tim Smith-LaingThe Militarists14th August 2013My friend the artist once told me an anecdote – an illustrative story – about a captain of the emergency forces, in the days of our relative youth. He, the artist, had come to show me some proofs of a series of etchings on dreams and magic, along with so...

23/04/2013

The Junket Issue 7 has arrived. There's poetry, cricket, the American Civil War, water, emotional support dogs, identity crises and Kraftwerk.

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22/11/2012

Six out of seven Junket editors celebrating our first birthday.

21/11/2012

New at The Junket: 'Tin Men', a short story by Benjamin Johncock. http://thejunket.org/2012/11/archive/latest/tin-men/

Benjamin JohncockTin Men21st November 2012At the time, he hadn’t realised how serious the situation had been.‘If anything happens to me,’ he remembered his father saying. ‘You have to look after your mother and sister.’He was 11 then, 41 now. Life was long, he thought.In the staff cafeteria, he push...