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Waking the Dead Flash Fiction Workshop at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

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I am very excited to announce I will be teaching a flash fiction workshop in the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park on the 3rd of June. This is one of my favourite places to walk, think and take photographs and is much-loved by locals for its beautiful trees and wandering paths.

Waking the Dead Flash Fiction Workshop

Sat 3 Jun 2023 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM BST

Come to the Cemetery Park and have a go at writing flash fiction as you explore your local burial ground for part of National Cemeteries Week!

This three-hour workshop will take inspiration from the history of some of the gravestones in the Cemetery Park, which we will learn about from Claire Slack, the Park’s Heritage Officer. Once we have had a chance to explore the park, learn some local history, and enjoy a short break, we will use the material we have gathered to write some flash fiction (‘short short’ stories) of our own. 

You can record your flash fiction at the end of the workshop for a special edition of my literary podcast, www.storyradio.org. No previous writing experience is required – just bring a notebook and pen! Suitable for adults and children aged 12 and older but all under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Book your tickets and read more about the event here.

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Two new short stories published recently

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Recently I had two short stories published. One, Some Notes on Container Gardening During the Apocalypse, is a satirical short story I wrote at the beginning of the pandemic, and was published by the excellent American literary magazine The Disappointed Housewife. I knew it would be the right magazine for me to submit this story to when I read that it was looking for stories that ‘that strike us as different, always with that idiosyncratic touch. Iconoclastic. Kind of bent.’ Thank you to The Disappointed Housewife for giving my strange little story a home!

The second, The Sin-Eater, was written and workshopped during the Genre class in my Creative Writing MA and is set in a fantasy world whose inhabitants all experience life through synaesthaesia and whose skin changes colour according to their feelings and sensations. I think it’s one of my most original short stories and am very pleased with it. It was published by the UK based Fudoki Magazine which is an online magazine of myths, legends, fables, fantasy, folklore and fairytales. Fudoki captured stories that were passed down the generations in Japan and ensured they wouldn’t be lost.

Meanwhile our final short story of 2020 will go online tomorrow at Story Radio Podcast – thanks to all the writers, actors and producers who have so generously shared their work, especially to my extremely talented Birkbeck contemporaries Tatum Anderson (The Invisibles) who was Highly Commended in two debut novel awards this year, Miki Lentin (Persepolis, Meringues) who was a Finalist in the Fish Publishing Short Story Award and of course my fellow producer, Martin Nathan (The Edge, Mock Crab, The Vulnerable) who is on the shortlist for two international playwriting awards. I am privileged to have been able to work with all of them during this very difficult year.

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Welcome new visitors and followers

by tabithapotts
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I’m not entirely sure why, but I seem to have had more visitors this month – welcome to all of you. I hope you are keeping well in this strange and very disorientating year. I’ve been working in my new marketing role and juggling creative writing, my literary podcast and family commitments throughout lockdown this year. It’s been a challenge at times (as it has for everyone) and I haven’t written or submitted as many short stories as I did in 2019.

I’ve had one short story, The Cabinet of Curiosities, published this year in a new subscription-only lit mag called Writers Egg Magazine. This short story was also longlisted for the University of Sunderland Short Story in Association with Waterstones Award in 2019.

I’ve also ‘published’ a new short story on my podcast and you can listen to Call Bird here. Generally, the podcast has been going very well. Two of our regular writers, Martin Nathan and Miki Lentin have been shortlisted and longlisted for literary awards (I’ll update on Story Radio with a round-up soon) and the podcast is averaging 160 downloads a month.

Otherwise I am working on some new short story ideas – one based on the theme of harvest and Autumn – and working on a collection of published and unpublished short stories. My first novel is now more or less complete and I have been querying the first three chapters with agents and had a few ideas for a second novel which I plan to start work on soon.

I’m also still writing book reviews for Roman Road London. This has been a great way to learn more about my local area, I’ve written about subjects as diverse as the Kray twins, Victorian boxers, kickboxing champion Ruqsana Begum, artist Doreen Fletcher and the Huguenots…. all my book reviews and journalism go onto my Authory page which is automatically updated so if you don’t find them here, you’ll find them there!

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