Over the last few months, our short fiction writing guide, Short Circuit, has been making its way around a number of very nice blogs, accompanied by its editor, Vanessa Gebbie, who has answered questions about the book and short story writing and other things too.
Take a look at these:
Sally Zigmond’s Elephant in the [...]
Liz Gallagher: The Maximus Miracle Tour
The Maximus Miracle Tour
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar. (Picasso)
Philosophical, inquisitive, humorous narratives show Gallagher’s talent for letting ideas be widely connotative — sharp and daring, quirky and knowing — these poems of [...]
POETRY BANK CHOICE. How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture, society and topography of London. Chivers takes his cue from radical writers such as Iain Sinclair and Barry MacSweeney to [...]
Nuala visits New Zealand to chat to blogger Rachel Fenton. She poses nude (but definately not naked) for a unique portrait and answers questions about the book…
Nuala Ní Chonchúir: The Nude Not Naked Tour
The Nude Not Naked Tour
The women and men in Nude play out their desires and frustrations from Dublin to Paris, Delhi to Barcelona, and beyond. In these stories there are mercurial lovers, illicit affairs and mistakes that cannot be undone. And at the centre of it [...]
Andrew Philip: The Ambulance Box Tour
The Ambulance Box Tour
Stops
Tour Date
Blog
1
10 June 2009
Our sweet old etcetera
2
17 June 2009
The Crafty Writer
3
23 June 2009
One Night Stanzas
4
26 June 2009
Douglas Robertson
5
29 June 2009
Dumbfoundry
6
2 July 2009
Boxologies
7
8 July 2009
Robert Peake
8
15 July 2009
Cadwallender
9
22 July 2009
Poetry Hut
10
29 July 2009
Andrew Shields
Ivy Alvarez
dumbfoundry : Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links, etc. Ivy Alvarez (author of Mortal) is one of the original dumbfounders.
Ivy covers Rob A. Mackenzie and Andrew Philiip in upcoming blogs.
Rob A. Mackenzie: The Opposite of Cabbage
The De-Cabbage Yourself Tour
Throughout this collection, opposites collide — reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until practically invisible, trained apes teach a colony of drunks how to dance, a bingo [...]
Megan Taylor
Megan Taylor Blog Stories
Megan’s blog features random ramblings about writing and publishing, along with some of her own short stories and the odd interactive blog story too. You can also find it on LiveJournal and MySpace.
Megan is an author, currently living in Nottingham. Her debut How We Were Lost was published by Flame [...]
Shaindel Beers: A Brief History of Time
On the hood of a Cutlass Supreme Tour
A Brief History of Time, Beers’ first collection of poetry, is at once an exploration of what it is to grow up in rural America and a treatise for social justice. These poems, many of them award-winning, span a wide [...]