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!
Warwick Books are hosting a Cinnamon Press reading by Nigel Hutchinson, Connie Ramsay Bott and Marg Roberts on Thursday, 15th March at 7.00pm. Tickets in advance can be bought from Warwick Books.
If you live in the area please support local writers published by an independent publisher and hosted by an independent book shop.
Find out more about Marg here: http://www.margroberts.co.uk/
Joel, who died in 2013, continues to have his work published in new collections, and this one from Dreampress looks particularly lovely:
(pic: Nicholas Royle).
‘The Mechanics’ Institute Review is Birkbeck’s (University of London) annual anthology of short fiction by emerging and established writers from across the UK.
With 14 issues published to date, The Mechanics’ aims to champion the short story as an art form, promoting diversity and opportunity for all while publishing new work of the highest possible standard. ‘
Below is a picture of Beard reading from his story ‘At Gloucester Docks’ at the Birmingham launch of the anthology. (pic: Yasmin Ali).
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.
Polly has a new story ‘A Miracle of Rare Device’ in the collection ‘Listening with Non-Human Others’. The book is an ‘extensively illustrated collection of essays, stories, songs, drawings, and colour photographs explores creative ways of listening with the materials, energies and vitality of non-human life.’
Available to buy or as a free download here: http://www.authorityresearch.net/essay-collection-listening-with-non-human-others.html
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.
Tindal Street Fiction Group 