Transmission #09 is hot off the presses, featuring exclusive interviews with Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon and purveyor of “Tartan Noir”, Christopher Brookmyre. We also have writing guidance from BBC Radio 4 scribe Paul Barnhill and some excellent Pulp Fiction themed short stories.

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Full contents follow:

Interviews:

• Graham Foster talks to Michael Chabon
• NP Murgatroyd meets Christopher Brookmyre
• Susie Stubbs chats to Fiona Campbell

Articles:

• Writer’s Block: Paul Barnhill on writing comedy

Short Stories:

• Killing Me Softly by Josie Aston, illustrated by Barney Ibbotson
• The Gold Prospectors by Ben Cheetham, illustrated by Jill Tytherleigh
• Memory Room by Ailsa Cox, illustrated by John Charlesworth
• Creeque Alley by Richard Fair, illustrated by Caroline Tomlinson
• The Funicular by Robert Graham, illustrated by Alice Horton
• Another Foreigner by Matt Harris, illustrated by Jo Phillips
• A Good Escape Plan by Dougie B Haywood, illustrated by Michael Stewart
• Detective Story by Chris Killen, illustrated by Lindsey Vigurs
• The Second Death of El Mig by NP Murgatroyd, illustrated by Rachel Jackson
• Eleventh of January Nineteen Sixteen by Dominic Nolan, illustrated by Tara Bush
• The Face by Graham Roberts, illustrated by John Casey
• Chaser by Damien G Walter, illustrated by Ria Dastidar

Reading:

• Alexander Trocchi, JG Ballard, Susanna Clarke, John Saul and Richard Stark reviewed.