For a long time now we have been huddled in the darkness, our faces lit by the dim flicker of a screen-saver in operation. The thought of the outside world, while not intensely worrying, is sometimes viewed as a complication. But like most shut-ins, we desire to see the bright lights and sample the delights [...]
Category Archives: Latest Updates
Issue #09 Injury Update - and some Pulp appetisers
August 27, 2007 – 4:51 pm
The hospital visits have been narrowly avoided. In the process of the hefty design overhaul of the Pulp Fiction issue of Transmission, Jo has sustained a nagging injury. He’s currently hunched over the desk, lamenting the state of his wrists and arms, cursing the RSI that has left him no more than a twisted wreck. [...]
Transmission at the New Islington Urban Folk Festival
August 22, 2007 – 11:49 am
There’s another chance to meet the crew behind Transmission at the exciting New Islington Urban Folk Festival. We’re thrilled to be a part of this event and this year’s line-up promises to be excellent. There’s readings by Manchester poet Lemn Sissay and Trinidadian novelist Anthony Joseph as well as previous Transmission contributors Neil Campbell and [...]
Transmission #09 Update
July 31, 2007 – 10:55 am
It’s high time we updated all you good people on what will be appearing in the next issue of Transmission!
Due out on the 28th September 2007, we have an issue chock-full of Pulpy goodness, including exclusive interviews with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Michael Chabon, and Scottish crime writer Christopher Brookmyre. We’re particularly excited about these [...]
And the winner is…
July 24, 2007 – 1:37 pm
Last Friday I attended the prize-giving ceremony for The Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Ailsa Cox and the team behind the Prize presented a wonderful evening at Manchester’s Royal Exchange, with previous Transmission interviewee A.L. Kennedy announcing the winner.
Colm Tóibín, the Irish writer of The Master, won the £5000 prize for his collection Mothers and [...]