E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Eyewear isn't the only kid on the block turning five in 2010.  This September marks the fifth anniversary of Fuselit , the pocket-sized literary journal edited by young British poets Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving , which is celebrating its birthday, as well as launching its 16th issue, Jack , on the 31st of this month with a reading at The Book Club in Shoreditch. Fuselit started life as an A5 photocopied black and white zine sold on a stall in the University of East Anglia campus for just 50p. Submissions editor Kirsten Irving had just come back from a year in New Orleans, during which she'd served on the editorial panel of the Tulane Review , and wanted to start a literary journal based on the idea of a 'spur word' for every issue - so that submissions for issue 1, for instance, would all be written in response to the word 'demo', issue 2 to 'catapult' and so on. These early issues featured work from writers like Joe Dunthorne, John Osbo...