Kit’s follow up to the wildly successful ‘My Name is Leon’, ‘The Trick to Time’ was praised on its recent release and made it on to the longlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2018. Fingers crossed she wins it!
Beard’s flash ‘Spy Film’ is published in the recent edition of ‘Here Comes Everyone‘ Toys and Games issue. He also had a flash ‘Ladybird’ published on the Reflex Fiction site.
June 2017.
Charlie has a story in this anthology of ‘weird fiction’, the seventh in a series that Peter Straub describes as: ‘a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment’s most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series.’
Funny Bone: Flashing for Comic Relief is out today (23/3/17). Flash fictions are stories under 1,000 words, and are sometimes called short shorts. A fantastic line up of authors including Roddy Doyle, Bernard McLaverty and Lydia Davis, and all for a good cause.
Alan Beard has had two flashes recently published – ‘November’ in Spelk Fiction, and ‘The Room Peels’ in Postcard Fiction.
Gaynor Arnold, author of After Such Kindness (2012), will read from her novel and discuss her fictional recreation of the relationship between Lewis Carroll and his child muse, Alice Liddell, with Dr Patricia Pulham from the University’s research Centre for Studies in Literature (CSL). This lecture will launch a programme of public events organised by CSL in association with Hampshire Library Services to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Alice in Wonderland.
Date and time: Thursday 12 March 2015, 6.30pm
Venue: University of Portsmouth, Richmond Building, LT3 Portland Street, Portsmouth PO1 3DE
Admission: Free, but please register on http://gaynorarnold.eventbrite.co.uk or call 023 9284 3757
The West Midlands Readers’ Network recently commissioned six writers to create short stories in collaboration with readers’ groups. Writers met with groups of readers around the region who offered various narrative ingredients. The writers then went away and added some creative magic to conjure new stories.
Join Tindal Street Fiction Group members – Gaynor Arnold, Garrie Fletcher and Amanda Smyth as they come together with three more writers from the West Midlands – Ian MacLeod, AL Pietroni, Rochi Rampal to showcase their stories in the new Library of Birmingham. Full event details can be found here.
Date: Dec 2nd
Time: 7 – 8.30pm
Venue: Studio Theatre, Library of Birmingham.
A couple of new photos have arrived from the anthology launch event. These feature the panel in one, and co-editor/short story contributor, Gaynor Arnold, and her celebratory bouquet in the other.
Tindal Street Fiction Group 