Mick Scully and Fiona Joseph will be appearing alongside Luke Kennard and Catherine O’Flynn on February 23rd @6:30-8pm. More details here:http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Events/Detail.aspx?eventId=2748
Joel died almost two years ago, and it’s strange – but wonderful – to say there’s new work from him. We all miss him so much in the group.
More information here.
Following his recent appearance in ‘Best British Short Stories 2015’, Charles has another story in the Year’s Best Weird Fiction Vol. 2. Well done, again, Charlie.
Associate TSFG member Julia is a Senior Lecturer at 
Birkbeck College, London where she teaches on the Creative Writing MA and is Project Director of the Writers Hub website. Her third novel has just been published by Macmillan. Here’s the cover:
The story concerns ‘ a girl growing up in a sinister cult on a remote island [who] falls in love with a girl who is there to be saved’ – based on a true story.
Julia’s previous novels are Massive, recently re-published by Macmillan, and Dirty Work. She also edited the highly recommended Creative Writers’ Coursebook.
TSFG member Charlie has a story ‘Fresh Water’ in the prestigious anthology, alongside such luminaries as Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson.
The story originally appeared in Unthology 5, along with another TSFG member’s story, Garrie Fletcher’s ‘Kowalski’.
Out of the five ‘Best British Short Stories’ anthologies so far, TSFG members have appeared in four of them.
Annie Murray’s ‘War Babies’ was launched with a VE Day party at Kings Heath Library. Photographs below show Annie with ration book; the happy crowd at the library; Sophie Greenwood (from ED Public Relations) and Nikki Bi (from the Library of Birmingham).
Annie Murray’s sixteenth (? – could be more!) novel ‘War Babies is launched today (May 5th 2015). Full details here.
Kit de Waal talks about writing short stories, winning prizes and the role of short story competitions in developing a career as a writer.
She has won and been listed in numerous competitions for her short stories (including Costa Short Story Prize, The Bridport Prize, Bath Short Story Award, Bare Fiction and Fish Publishing) and has recently signed a three-book deal with Viking, an imprint of Penguin.
The Institute of Creative and Critical Writing
further details here.
Polly Wright has developed her story ‘Seagulls in Sparkhill’ (originally published in TSFG’s anthology ‘The Sea in Birmingham’) into a play which will be performed at the Birmingham Rep on 12th March as part of the student drama festival.See this webpage for more details.
Photo from LiveBrum site.
http://www.livebrum.co.uk/birmingham-rep/2015/03/12/seagulls-in-sparkhill
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
Tindal Street Fiction Group 
