From Rotten Things To The Awesome

Tania Hershman has compiled a list of every lit zine in the UK and Ireland. And she has shared it. Hugely generous. The things she does for short stories, eh? And the things she does for us!

Thank you, Tania.
(And I’m thrilled to be taking about something positive here after my previous post.)

London Lists: A Brief Post

Received the handouts from last Friday’s Tales of the Decongested yesterday (thanks Martin), which contained my story, Lists (which originally appeared in Dogmatika) and that made me happy. Apologies for the poor quality (the iPhone’s camera isn’t its best feature) and apologies for the top one being on its end (Blogger knows best, doesn’t it).

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And talking of short fiction, the July issue of The Short Review’s up – it’s a good un.

Tales of the Decongested

Just a little update/plug.

The supercool reading/music night, Tales of the Decongested, (I’d love to be able to go to one, one day) is happening this Friday (details below) and my very short story, Lists (click to see it in its initial outing here) will appear in the handouts, which is something that really makes me very happy.
If you’re in London, get yourself down there!
And here are the details:

Date:
26 June 2009
Time:
19:00 – 20:45
Location:
3rd Floor Gallery Space, Foyles Bookshop
Street:
113-119 Charing Cross Road
Town/City:
London, United Kingdom

Best of 2008

I hope you’ve all had a lovely festive period. Mine’s been cool.

I thought Dr Who was great, and although I enjoyed it, I did wonder what had happened to The Royle Family; the subtleties of writing and humour in dialogue seemed a bit forced.
Anyway.
List time.
As you’ll well know 2008 wasn’t a particularly great year for me, through one thing and another, and another, and another. But it wasn’t without some good bits and great books.
The best of which, I’d say, were:
(Non Fic)
(Fiction)
(Blog Story)
(Short Story Collections)
(Telly)
(Music)
And if I had to choose an absolute winner, the best discovery of the year, it would HAVE to be Aimee Bender (with Mr Keret, Tania Hershman and Mariee Sioux all very close behind). I think she’s just wonderful.
So there you go. I hope one or two of you find something you like/love from my little list.