Jane Flett

3 weeks ago | kirkusreviews.com | Jane Flett |Alison Espach |Richard Wright

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is plotting her own demise. Her husband, Matt, has left her for another woman, and Phoebe is taking it hard. Indeed, she's determined just where and how she will end it all: at an oceanfront hotel in Newport, where she will lie on a king-sized canopy bed and take a bottle of her cat’s painkillers.

Oct 16, 2024 | theguardian.com | Jane Flett

When my friendJonathan heard the crash of breaking glass that night in 2008, he thought it was drunks flinging bottles on Leith Walk in Edinburgh. They did that a lot, although they must have been rowdier than usual, as it was loud. It took him a few minutes to understand what was actually happening – and in that time the stairwell to his fifth-floor flat became entirely impassable.

Jul 30, 2024 | womensprize.com | Josie Ferguson |Lottie Hazell |Nikki May |Jane Flett

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Jul 10, 2024 | heraldscotland.com | Jane Flett

Execution by hanging of four witches. Coloured engraving from 'Law and Custom of Scotland in Matters Criminal', by Sir George Mackenzie. Scotland, Edinburgh 1678. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images). (Image: free) In 2022, Nicola Sturgeon issued a formal apology to those accused in the witch trials of early modern Scotland, describing them as “injustice on a colossal scale”. It was about time.

Jul 2, 2024 | the-berliner.com | Jane Flett |Alexander Wells

Jane Flett is an institution in anglophone literary Berlin. For over a decade, the award-winning queer Scottish author has been teaching and mentoring other writers, primarily through The Reader. She has also been publishing poetry and fiction in her own chapbooks as well as various magazines. This summer, Flett released her debut novel Freakslaw, a neo-Gothic romp that begins when a boisterous supernatural funfair pulls into a repressed and patriarchal Scottish town.