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Collection of personal essays and creative non-fiction, for which contributors responded to food and the body in intimate but universal ways, sharing experiences that will resonate with readers.

For writers, walls are challenges to be overcome: put a barrier in their way and they will tunnel under it, vault over it or simply blast their way straight through it. In Beyond the Walls 2020, a new generation of writing talent will be given their chance to do just that.In the latest edition of this much-loved anthology, Creative Writing students from York St John University present the very best fiction, non-fiction and poetry to emerge from the revolutionary 'Centre for Writing' initiative; a beacon for independent literary publishing in the North. Readers, prepare to have your expectations demolished and your hopes restored: the next wave of UK literature starts here.

Includes work by Koyejo Adebakin, Kester Aspden, The Baggage Handlers, Jo Birdsey, Rachel Bower, SJ Bradley, Emily Bullock, John Irving Clarke, Josephine Corcoran, David Cundall, Gloria Dawson, Ian Duhig, Ian Fairley, Max Farrar, Rachel J. Fenton, Helen Forbes, Dominic Grace, Alan Griffith, Ian Harker, Oz Hardwick, Clare Ibberson-John, Anietie Isong, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Andrew Lambeth, Marina Lewycka, Steve Lunn, Wes Lee, Char March, Rob Miles, Sai Murray, Zodwa Nyoni, Elizabeth Ottosson, Caryl Phillips, Hannah Roche, Dan Stathers, Chérie Taylor Battiste, Catherine Vallely, and Stephen Whiting