Issue 16: Editors' Note

Cover painting: Sunny Watermelons (2024), by Alai Ganuza. We’ve been celebrating at Dust Towers over the past couple of weeks. Not only are we incredibly proud to showcase an immense wealth of talent across the pages of this new issue, but we are also delighted that Olya K-Mehri has been longlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) for ‘Forest Fire’, which was published in Issue…