Welcome to the 12th edition of the époque press é-zine on the theme, Shortage. Once more we have been overwhelmed with the fantastic response we have received.  The process of working through the submissions, to settle on the final content featured here, has been extremely difficult due to the volume of excellent and thought-provoking work we received.  Little did we know, when we announced the theme, the resonance the word ‘shortage’ would actually have. Since we opened submissions for this edition we have gone from bad to worse in terms of the economic impact to all of our lives, and the result of this has certainly been reflected in some of the pieces that we feature here for you. (read more) >