We’re delighted that the Times Literary Supplement this week chose to include Shooter in its annual issue covering notable literary journals. Please buy a copy to read Katie Mennis’s review in full, which focuses on the recent “New Life” and “Dirty Money” issues, or read the teaser here.

She writes: “For A. L. Kennedy, a short story is ‘small in the way a bullet is small’. Shooter … calls to mind not only Kennedy’s exhortation to ‘hit [the] reader and blow their fucking head off’ but also ‘Chekhov’s gun’, the principle that every element of a story must be necessary.”

With that in mind, writers still have two weeks in which to fire bullets, not blanks, for the “Rivalry” issue (deadline November 11th) or the 2018 Poetry Competition (November 25th).