Time to look back / forward. How did I get on last week? Meetings and Events - a Society of Authors' workshop on writing audio drama (via Zoom) - YES attending a book launch event (via Zoom) - YES attending a reading by Red Door Poets (via Zoom) - YES (this evening). Writing projects - … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 25th September
Category: Short Stories
Sonnet Man #1 – “On being thrown over”
https://videopress.com/v/0VSYljTb?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "On being thrown over" from Not the Sonnets
“Giacomo Joyce”
Published by Faber in a special edition, both in terms of style and its snippets of content James Joyce's very short story "Giacomo Joyce" serves as a way-marker for what is to follow in "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake". Perhaps never intended to be published (it was only ever hand-written) the story is an impressionistic collection … Continue reading “Giacomo Joyce”
New podcast episode!
Just like buses, two episodes for my Walking Thru Fire podcast come along one after the other! My short story - The Piano Player - is now available. I hope you like it. Walking Thru Fire is available on all good podcast services: Audible, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon Music, Deezer etc.
New podcast episode!
It has been far too long since I recorded an episode for my Walking Thru Fire podcast - but I now address that omission. My short story - Closing his account - is now available. I hope you like it. Walking Thru Fire is available on all good podcast services: Audible, Spotify, Apple podcasts, Amazon … Continue reading New podcast episode!
Putting pen to paper – w/c 18th September
Time to look back / forward. How did I get on last week? Meetings and Events - A 'Cafe Writers' book launch and open mic - YES September's Derby 'Stanza' meeting - YES attending a local poetry group - YES, but the 'group' proved to be just me and the organiser! being interviewed for a … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 18th September
Putting pen to paper – w/c 11th September
So, here we go. 'Back in the saddle' as they say. Rather than revert to an entry a day ("been there, done that") I thought I might try and keep myself honest by previewing the week ahead - and then in seven days' time looking back to see how I got on. It's all about … Continue reading Putting pen to paper – w/c 11th September
Getting my act together…
Following on from my recent rumination about time and what to do with it ("Today's the day"), over the last few days I have turned my attention to kick-starting some new Coverstory books publishing initiatives. The first of these is a new short story collection following on from the 2022 volume Making Marks in the … Continue reading Getting my act together…
“Antarctica”
Although Claire Keegan's collection of short stories, Antarctica, has won numerous plaudits, there was something about them which bothered me. It was as if there was something missing - or, more likely, something I hadn't spotted. Perhaps I was put off by the title story which I found unrealistic and a little clichéd. If the … Continue reading “Antarctica”
“Fictions”
Surreal. Weird. Undefinable. Mind-bending. You choose - because as I was working my way through Jorge Luis Borges' Fictions I had no idea what I was reading! More often than not the individual pieces felt like non-fiction or reportage; but then the content was so surreal... It was one of those books where I really … Continue reading “Fictions”
Ian Gouge - Writer 