Spike Magazine

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Spike Magazine is an

The focus of the magazine is mainly literary, and it features an extensive and eclectic back catalogue of book reviews, all available from the site's front page. It also includes features on a variety of subjects (including cinema and politics), music reviews, interviews, and the ongoing "blog" journal Splinters

Spike has had contributors from around the world over the years making for very varied outlooks. The general tone however tends towards the counter-cultural, controversial and

It contains separate sections devoted to news on Ballard, Noon, Self and Irvine Welsh.

Some of the main writers over the years have been Chris Mitchell himself, Stephen Mitchelmore, Ben Granger, Ismo Santala (the former three also having been regular contributors to the Splinters blog), Chris Hall, Gary Marshall, Eric Saeger, Ian Hocking, Robin Askew, Nick Clapson, Jayne Margetts, Craig Johnson, Katrina Gulliver,^[2] Nathan Cain, Nick Clapson, Dan Coxon and Adam Baron.

Spike Magazine ceased to run new articles in 2012, but the archive is still available online.

References

External links

• Spike Magazine
• Splinters
• Britlit blogs

In October 2010, a free 600 page PDF anthology of the best of Spike Magazine was made available to download from the site.

Independent Spike media profiles

• Good Web Guide overview
• Writers Reign overview
• Zine-o-Rama overview
• Complete Review overview

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