Four TSFGers appear in the forthcoming Book of Birmingham – current members Alan Beard and Sibyl Ruth, ex member Kit de Waal and the late and much missed Joel Lane. The editor Kavita Bhanot is also an ex member. The book is being launched on Friday 5th October 2018 at the Conservatoire, Birmingham at 6pm. More here.
Mantle Lane Press have taken Garrie’s short story, Electricity, to be included in a wonderful anthology that focuses on outsiders. The collection is entitled Songs for the Elephant Man. They’re also going to publish a long short story of his called ‘Submerged’. More news on this soon.
On the performance front, he’ll be reading a short story as part of a Room 204 sharing session at the Birmingham Literature Festival on Sat 6 Oct, 10am, at Birmingham Rep and the ticket price includes a tea/coffee and a pastry. Join him and other writers like Jane Campion Hoye, Lisa Blower and Amarjit Nar and meet other writers and readers!
He is also appearing at a ‘Country Voices’ event, on Saturday 15 December, 2:30-4pm. It’s at the Meadow Inn, a charming venue above the River Severn in Ironbridge.
You’ll find more out about Garrie at his website.
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.
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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
