This year’s journal includes prose and poetry about alternative facts, and process pieces, where 4th Floor contributors write their versions of the truth.
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What shall we write on the RAMS form?
Extracts from The farewell tourist
I was born and the world was messy
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INTERVIEWS
In each of these interviews, local writers start by considering ‘right and wrong’. Then they diverge – variously exploring ethics, expectations, world views, factual accuracy, honesty and truth.