Lucy Vickery

Averse to verse

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Ian McEwan was challenged on the Today programme to come up with the beginning of a novel inspired by the current confrontation with Russia. Let’s have a short story from you inspired by these events. Email entries of up to 150 words to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 4 April.

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