Our eighth issue, freshly relaunched and redesigned to suit its new literary status as The Illustrated Magazine of New Writing. This issue features 27 short stories, poems, and flash fiction pieces, all elegantly compacted into 64 pages of illustrated heroism and centred around the rather befitting theme of 'Birth'. Expect to find literary musings on the birth of nations, transvestites, eternal youth, a life spent in freefall, and how society might operate if we all had transparent foreheads.