Kit de Waal at London Short Story Festival, plus other KdW news!

Posted on June 19, 2014 by takingsky

Kit de Waal (Mandy) is scheduled to appear at the London Short Story Festival on Saturday 21st June 2014 at 12pm. The venue is Waterstones, Piccadilly. She says she will be reading her story from ‘The Sea in Birmingham’. Update 23rd June 2014: Picture of Mandy at the festival below.

Further news for Kit de Waal: after getting runner-up spot in the Costa award (see Feb 3rd entry below), she achieved the same second spot in the Bath Short Story award 2014. That was in June, in July she was longlisted for The SI Leeds Literary Award. What’s going to happen next month?

Updated again July 16th: No, we didn’t have to wait a month, just a matter of days to hear that Mandy has been longlisted for another prize: The 2014 Bristol Short Story Prize.

Joel Lane wins a World Fantasy Award

Posted on November 6, 2013 by takingsky

At the prestigious World Fantasy awards held recently in Brighton, Joel Lane won the best collection award for his superb book of connected stories ‘Where Furnaces Burn’, set in Birmingham and the Black Country. Congratulations, Joel!

Short story showcase

Posted on November 3, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

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.

TSFG on Midlands Today

Posted on October 14, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

Catch a short package about Alan Mahar and the Tindal Street Fiction group on Midlands Today. The piece is on iPlayer until October 15th 2013 (so you’ll have to be quick) and the package begins at 15 mins. Here’s the link…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03czbnc/Midlands_Today_14_10_2013/

Gaynor Arnold at Book to the Future

Posted on October 13, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

Gaynor Arnold will be talking about her latest novel, After Such Kindness, at the Book to the Future Festival – University of Birmingham.

The event is on 29th October 2-3pm at the Arts Building, Lecture Room 4

Tickets to events, along with the online programme, can be found on webpage: www.birmingham.ac.uk/bttf .

Free anthology launch event draws near

Posted on October 2, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

The launch of the new Tindal Street Fiction Group anthology – The Sea in Birmingham – draws near. The event is being held at the new Library of Birmingham and hosted by Birmingham Literature Festival and supported by Writing West Midlands. 160 people have already booked for the event but there are some spaces left and the Tindal Street Fiction Group writers would love to see you there.

There will be an opening speech from eminent playwright David Edgar, followed by an introduction from the editors, Gaynor Arnold and Julia Bell, as well as readings from some of the authors and a Q&A.

You can book FREE tickets online here.

Venue: The Studio Theatre at the new Library of Birmingham
Date: October 12th 2013
Time: 6-7pm

Joel Lane shortlisted

Posted on August 14, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

Congratulations to TSFG member, Joel Lane, who has been shortlisted in the short fiction category of the World Fantasy Awards for his collection Where Furnaces Burn, (PS Publishing).

Stories recently published (or coming soon)

Posted on August 6, 2013 by takingsky

Charles Wilkinson and Joel Lane both have stories in ‘Rustblind and Silverbright: A Slipstream Anthology of Railway Stories‘ from Eibonvale Press.

Charles also has stories out (or coming out) in Crack the Spine (USA) – the story appeared on-line and was the chosen for the print anthology; Prole (UK) print and online, Prime Number (USA -online); Able Muse (USA – print and perhaps online too); Petrichor Machine (USA-print).

Alan Beard has a story coming out in September in Oblong Magazine, a new British online and print journal based in Brixton.

Anthology copies have arrived

Posted on August 1, 2013 by tindalstreetfg

The first copies of the Tindal Street Fiction Group anthology – The Sea in Birmingham – arrived at Julia Bell’s offices at Birkbeck in London today. I’m sure you’ll agree it’s a thing of beauty. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon or wait for the Kindle version, both out in October 2013.