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Open this book, and you will enter a world refracted in a prism with thirty-two polished surfaces. A gem, cut in the Eurocrat diamond district, emitting multifarious literature through its many faces. Some reflect the wistful melancholy of the Brussels drizzle, some tear open the sky with a bolt of genius that will have you groping for your sunglasses. A brain drain of anglophone and anglophile writers, itinerant and settled, share and sharpen their largely expat outpourings of human love and beastly bombings, reassuring community and bewildering exile. The private explodes in public, the petty corrupts the grand, the funny elbows the dire—in the heart of the old world, lives and stories converge and drift apart. This collection  portrays our troubled and exciting times through short story, poem, script and novel excerpt of both seasoned pros and promising hacks. Whether brutally marooned on the damp flatlands, or cosily embedded in red-brick ale houses, their dreams and nightmares shine from this beloved, accursed, ramshackle Europe of ours. Come inside.

 

Andreas Bergsten is a Swedish psychologist who started writing seriously in English under the auspices of the BWC during his four years stay in Belgium. Last summer, he returned to Stockholm for an inverted sabbatical year of work in consulting psychology. In the autumn of 2018, he will relocate to Beijing to rewrite his debut novel, THE RIFT. Other contributor bios:

Patrick ten Brink writes writes travel poetry and fiction, including 'The Taken', which received an Honorable Mention from Glimmer Train in 2017.