The launch night of There’s No Point in Not Being Friends with Someone If You Want to Be Friends With Them, Manchester’s newest live literature night is tonight! Head down to the new Trof at the Deaf Institute on Grosvenor Street (just off Oxford Road), to join in on the action. There is plenty going [...]
Author Archives: Graham
Paul Simon, Reading Nights and Chris Killen
July 9, 2008 – 2:43 pm
Here at Transmission we get sent many things, some good, some bad, some utterly baffling. Not so long ago, we were sent an interesting little self-produced chapbook. It was titled Paul Simon, and judging from the handwritten numbering on the back, a very limited edition. It’s a haunting affair, where the eponymous singer-songwriter recovers from [...]
Transmission #11 Contents
July 4, 2008 – 2:27 pm
Here is a full list of contents for Transmission #11:
Interviews:
Graham Foster talks to Dan Vyleta
NP Murgatroyd chats to Empar Moliner
Articles:
Found in Translation: Sara Newman on the role of the literary translator, photography by Richard Heap
Writer’s Block: Chris Killen on hustling
Fiction:
Covering Tracks by Sean Gregson, illustrated by Richard Short
The Breakdown by Oliver de la Fosse, [...]
Submissions Deadline Approaching
June 24, 2008 – 11:28 am
Dear Gentle Reader,
Please accept this forewarning of the approaching submission deadline for Transmission #12. On the 30th June 2008 this institution will close its mailbox for correspondence on this matter. However, on this date a new theme and deadline will be announced, so it may be wise to keep your quills moistened and your parchment [...]
Dan Vyleta on his Influences
June 11, 2008 – 11:16 am
In our latest issue, The Europe Special, we spoke to German writer Dan Vyleta about his debut novel Pavel & I. The interview is a fascinating insight into why the author chose to write in English, and he is very talkative about his literary influences. So talkative, in fact, that we couldn’t fit all of [...]