Unless I'm doing it privately while editing, the stories I write are not read aloud. Public exceptions to this include reading freshly written drafts out in writing classes and workshops and the "Remembrance of Things Past" podcast last year.
This year such privacy is set to change. Over the coming months I am reading some of my stories at three spoken word events:
Given that one of the things I do for a living is speak, this promises to be an interesting variation. No ad-libbing, no digressions, no slides, no technical stuff. I won't be talking about anything. I'll be reading what I've written.
This year such privacy is set to change. Over the coming months I am reading some of my stories at three spoken word events:
- On Sunday 12th February I will be one of ten authors reading at Stroud Short Stories' "Love and Other Blows of Fate" Valentine's Day event. I'll be reading "Schrödinger's Pizza", a lab lit romance of pineapple chunks and quantum mechanics.
- On Saturday 18th February I will be one of three authors reading at The Liminal event in Weston-super-Mare. This is the third such event, and I'm honoured and excited to be on the same billing as Emma Newman and Carol Anne Davis. Currently I'm planning to read "Remembrance of Things Past", "Schrödinger's Pizza", "Afterglow" and two other unpublished pieces of flash fiction.
- On Wednesday 16th May — National Flash-Fiction Day — I will be taking part in a Flash Slam in Oxford. I'll be flashing some of my short shorts for that, but I'm not yet sure which ones.
Given that one of the things I do for a living is speak, this promises to be an interesting variation. No ad-libbing, no digressions, no slides, no technical stuff. I won't be talking about anything. I'll be reading what I've written.
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