Word has reached us that the Manchester Literature Festival is holding a micro fiction competition. The idea is for writers the tell, or re-tell, an Urban Myth. This from them:
“The micro fiction or flash fiction genre forces writers to dispense with the excessive, superfluous and unnecessary elements to convey a succinct idea or story. This [...]
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July 19, 2007 – 12:18 pm
Tea Time Talks… with Transmission!
May 21, 2007 – 11:30 am
The Chorlton Arts Festival kicked off in style on Saturday with the fantastic Arts and Crafts Market - even the FA Cup Final didn’t keep the crowds away!
As mentioned in my previous post, I will be taking part in the series of “Tea Time Talks” on Friday 25th May at Battery Park on Wilbraham Road. [...]
Transmission at Chorlton Arts Festival
May 15, 2007 – 11:31 am
We’ll be loading up our little yellow Robin Reliant and heading out to Chorlton on Saturday 19th May. We have a stall at the Arts and Crafts Market which is part of the Chorlton Arts Festival. The Market is in St Clement’s Church, Edge Lane and will run from 10am until 4pm. From midday the [...]
David Gaffney Sawn-off Tales book signing
April 19, 2007 – 11:41 am
Another plug for regular Transmission contributor David Gaffney. This Saturday 21st April, the author will be signing copies of his excellent collection of short stories, Sawn-off Tales, from 1.00pm at Waterstones in Bury, North Manchester.
Only a short stretch from Manchester city centre on the Metrolink (about 25 mins) at £3.50 off-peak return, so if you [...]
Report from the Basement
April 16, 2007 – 10:30 am
Well, the mini-market at the Basement Cafe was a little slow and being the first really hot day of spring it isn’t really hard to see why folk didn’t fancy disappearing into a cellar to look at magazines! It was also this weather that made it very difficult to lug a small, but extremely heavy [...]