Event overview
Flash fiction, short stories, prose poems: all seem to be thriving these days and the outlets for publishing them have increased. Three young specialists in the short form read extracts from their work and discuss their methods with Tom Lee
Joe Dunthorne was born and grew up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, was adapted for film by Richard Ayoade. His second, Wild Abandon, won the Encore Award. His latest is The Adulterants. A collection of his poems, O Positive, was published earlier this year by Faber & Faber.
Xanthi Barker's fiction has appeared in Litro, Mslexia and Bare Fiction as well as various anthologies. Her piece 'Paradoxical' was highly commended in the 2018 Spread the Word Life Writing Prize. Her novelette One Thing was published in 2019 by Open Pen.
Max Sydney Smith was born in 1986 in London. He graduated with an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths in 2015. His flash fiction pamphlet, Without Seeming to Care at All, has just been published by Rough Trade Books.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 30 Oct 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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