Last year I agreed to do Last Short Story with Tansy, Alisa, Sarah, Alex and Jonathan. I thought it would be interesting and even fun to see what genre short fiction was like. I began strong, keeping up with a bunch of...
Read MoreI’m back from Adelaide Writer’s Week (it was brilliant) and it occurred to me that in the rush of flying to Adelaide, eating canapes, meeting famous writers and talking about Daleks, I hadn’t as yet made my...
Read MoreBecause I’m a realist and I know I’ll run out of time, I thought I’d throw my nominations for novella, novelette and short story together in one post. Novellas ‘‘Times Table’’, Robert Shearman (Everyone’s Just...
Read MoreHappy 2012 to all of you out there. For those looking forward to the Mayan prophecy coming to pass on 21-12-12… you can fuck off. Or you can read this site, which sees the Prophecy as a time of transcedence rather than...
Read MoreI’ve published my Year’s Best short fiction for 2011 on the Last Short Story blog. There’a about 40 stories there, a number of which you can get for free online. So plenty of great reading for the holiday...
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