Michael Andrew Ellis writes fiction about the costs of wanting a life one's community cannot provide. The sampled issues instead carry literary criticism of William Morris's novella The Unseating of Dr. Smoot and a historical essay on a Hmong-language newsletter in French Guiana.
Website: https://michaelandrewellis.com/
Short literary science fiction stories set in a near-future city where a coordinating system called Continuum smooths daily life. Each issue follows ordinary people dealing with grief, disaster and loss in the gaps that frictionless systems leave.
Each week the newsletter picks the best-written books from US and UK new releases and prize shortlists, with excerpts and author interviews. It also publishes articles on prose style and AI writing, plus a satirical serial about David Lynch.
Autumn 2026 - Inkhorn Review is a literary journal publishing short fiction and prose poetry. Its issues in the sample feature close, image-driven writing on marriage, aging and mortality, quiet domestic scenes, and moral moments in everyday life.
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