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Last month the BBC produced a list of ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World’, and in response Nina Allan challenged writers and readers to make their own lists of 100 novels that have shaped them personally. Here’s mine. A list like this is an exercise in painful exposure, showing up all kinds of prejudices and…
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Issue Nine of the excellent Belfast literary magazine The Tangerine is out — a really strong selection of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, interviews, reviews and artwork. A story I wrote, ‘Eurydice Box’, is in there.
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Nicholas Royle’s Best British Short Stories 2019 is out today from Salt Publishing. Including my story ‘The Heights of Sleep’!
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Still Worlds Turning is just out from No Alibis Press, edited by Emma Warnock. An anthology of twenty new stories by writers from the UK, Ireland and elsewhere: Niall Bourke, Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Judyth Emanuel, Wendy Erskine, Louise Farr, Lauren Foley, Ian Green, Daniel Hickey, Michael Holloway, Suzanne Joinson, Niamh MacCabe, Laura-Blaise McDowell, Gerard…
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My story Where You Are is available to hear on BBC Radio, performed by Stuart Graham. A father searches for his son…
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My story The Heights of Sleep is available to read at MIROnline. A life’s writing, a close reader, a figure in the carpet.
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There’s an in-depth review of Jott by Daniel Davis Wood at Splice — — and also an interview, in which we invent the genre of Beckettpunk.
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My story The Monstrosity in Love is in Black Static 64. A bleak future, a fond friendship, a child of the night…
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I’ve written a piece for the LRB blog about tracing a family connection in Samuel Beckett’s letters, and how that became the seed for a story…
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Jott was published on Saturday. We had a launch at the Belfast Book Festival — pictured below, small guests treating the event with the appropriate attention and seriousness. There are a few more pictures here.
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