• Five Best Graphic Gothic Novels

    With the sudden clown craze and Halloween around the corner, it’s the perfect time to connect with the dark side. So to get you into the mood this Halloween, I have chosen my top 5 best graphic Gothic novels. 5 – The Woman in Black – Susan Hill The Woman...
  • Let’s Articulate #14: If Book Covers Were Honest…

    We’ve been told to never judge a book by its cover. But what if they were honest? What if book covers, and incidentally their titles, actually told us the truth about the stories they held? Would you pick them up? Impact Arts have chosen their top ten book covers, and...
  • Book of the Month: October

    ‘‘If I could take what I’ve learned and make one menial job easier for you, or prevent you from having the kind of sex where you feel you must keep your sneakers on in case you want to run away during the act, then every misstep of mine was...
  • Arty Outings: Berlin

    Berlin is well-known as being one of the cultural capitals of the world, but I never realised quite how much culture and art is crammed into the German capital. Over summer I travelled to Berlin with my family for four days, and we spent the time being classic tourists,...
  • Let’s Articulate #13: Decision To Cut Art History A-Level

    Another week, another blow dealt to the Arts. This time it’s students who are most affected, with AQA making the decision that this will be the final year they offer Art History as an A-Level, claiming “the existing specification is challenging to mark and award.” In a statement released...
  • Charity, Jazz Age and Fitzgerald: Interview with Laura Jayne Bateman and Gigi George

    To celebrate Nottingham New Theatre’s charity performance of The Great Gatsby at the Lakeside Arts Centre, Impact Arts interviewed director, Laura Jayne Bateman, and producer Gigi George, who also happens to be performing the role of Jordan in the show!  Tell us about the play. What influenced your adaptation and why did...
  • Summer Nostalgia: Five Best Books

    After a tasking first day of lectures, and a painful first week of post-summer, post-Freshers fun ahead of us, we here at Impact Arts decided to relish our nostalgia by asking three of our contributors to put forward their best books of summer 2016. From young adult feminism to twisted fairy tales, which novel...