Poster artwork featured in above illo is by Anton van Hertbruggen. Can it really be that time again? The ice on my keyboard and loss of feeling in my fingers would suggest so! Even the cat thinks that winter is best viewed from this side of the glass.

Notes from a PhD networking event. The Mountain in My Shoe. The Girl With All the Gifts by Mike Carey. Orphans in Fiction with Antonia Honeywell. The Fish Ladder by Katharine Norbury. Song of the Sea Maid by Rebecca Mascull. My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal. Writers in Conversation Shena Mackay. The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson. Orphans, Abandoned Children and Care Leavers.