The tour includes stops in Edinburgh, London, the US and Australia. Ryan’s already featured on [...]]]>

Ryan Van Winkle is packing his virtual suitcase, travel pillow and all, ready to depart on his first ever blog tour. It’s all in order to promote his Crashaw Prize winning debut collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here.

The tour includes stops in Edinburgh, London, the US and Australia. Ryan’s already featured on Melbourne’s Emerging Writers’ Festival 15 Minutes of Fame (whilst in Syria)… view the transcript of his twitter interview here.

Now, kicking off on Friday, he’ll be answering questions from some expert blog people. Here are the venues and dates:

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:

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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 Writing Room: ‘My Bible. I keep it on my desk and every time I dip into it I find something new, something practical and something inspiring.’

Nik Perring: ‘It’s really rather good.’

Sophie Playle

Emerging Writer (Kate Dempsey): ‘a veritable feast of thoughts and suggestions about short story writing’

Writer’s Little Helper (Jessica Patient): ‘the kind of book I wished was around when I did my Masters and Degree.’

Fiona Joseph: ‘chock full of advice from 24 prize-winning short fiction writers on just about every aspect of the short story. And it’s an ideal textbook for those of us on postgraduate Creative Writing courses who love – and grapple with – this challenging form.’

Strictly Writing

Umi Sinha

asalted (Sara Crowley): ‘ace book’

The Short Review Blog (Tania Hershman)

Thoughts from Botswana (Lauri Kubuitsile): ‘a unique textbook.’: Also: 5 Things I Loved About Short Circuit (Review)

Sue Guiney: ‘a truly wonderful textbook’

Nuala Ni Chonchuir

Tom Conoboy: A three-part discussion on Short Circuit and the art of the short story:

1. Time, endings, leaving space for the reader

2. Language, plot, theme

3. Writing craft in general

Jon Pinnock: ‘a series of profound insights into the writing processes of some of the best short-form writers around. And in the end, that can tell you more about writing good short stories than any by-the-numbers text book.’

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 [...]]]>

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 wide-ranging themes and approaches are chock full of the unexpected, delivered in lively rhythms and tempo with an energy and way of seeing the world that is compelling.

From the cosmic to the domestic, from childhood flashback to adult matter-of-factness, from the simply chilling to the witty and authentic — cleverness and a surreal intensity entertain and enlighten, making Wrong Miracle an achievement of the amusing and the deep.

Gallagher is a poet of immense resource with a refreshingly original voice that will move one to exclaim – ‘Ah, what a great thing for poems to do!’

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 [...]]]>

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 all is the unclothed body: in bedrooms, in art, and in and out of love.

Award-winning writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir uses her trademark sensual frankness, coupled with poetic language, to weave an intoxicating spell in these stories. If fictional worlds pivot on yearning, then the characters in these stories yearn for passion, for understanding and, sometimes, for freedom.

The Ambulance Box Tour

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.

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 [...]]]>

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 night fuels familial despair and love, and an airborne cabbage blasts a cyclist into orbit. With precision of language and a colourful, anarchic spirit, Mackenzie’s poems focus on their subjects with humanity and hard-won compassion. They have a light touch, but are never trivial. They are for readers who trust that questions are rarely simple and answers never final. Ironic and humorous, complex and engaging, you can’t do without The Opposite of Cabbage.