More work with SLAMX upcoming!

Just had another short one-minute sketch/piece accepted by SLAMX Theatre Company who will be performing it at the Vault Festival, London, SE1 7NN on Sunday 23rd Feb at 3:15pm.

It is an adaptation of the flash story, "The Girl Within," which was originally published in A Cache of Flashes (Black Pear Press) in 2016.  I'm really looking forward to seeing how they stage this as it calls for a youngish (under 10 years old) girl as one of the characters, otherwise it just will not work at all.  Admittedly she doesn't have any lines, but she does have to act a bit and I'm not entirely sure where a self-professed guerilla theatre company will procure a young child.  I suppose I'll find out on the night.... 

I've always liked this one though, as it was one of two or three flash stories which, whilst conceived as short-short ideas in their own right, were heavily influenced by Chris Morris' Jam TV show and Blue Jam radio show in execution (one of the others being, funnily enough, "Genuine Photo" which will be staged by SLAMX on the 9th of Feb).  So it will be interesting to see it performed on the stage, even if it is only a minute long.

The Facebook Event page is here.

Two readings from "State of the Nation."

Here are the two readings that were featured on the "Radio Wildfire" broadcast.  Hope you enjoy them!

The Girl Within

Genuine Photo

Two flash fiction pieces to be broadcast on "Radio Wildfire"

It's been a while but thankfully that's because I've been busy.  And in a good way.

Some news, however.  A couple of flash fiction pieces from the forthcoming collection, "State of the Nation" are going to be broadcast on the spoken word, live literature and oral art Internet radio station, "Radio Wildfire" on Monday 7th September between 8 and 10pm (GMT).

The stories themselves ("Genuine Photo" and "The Girl Within") are short flash pieces but these particular pieces are somewhat different as they are my first experiments with multi-track recording, using music (albeit being limited by Royalty-free tunes) and FX.  While the stories are my usual fare (albeit shorter - I've been working on far too many 2- 40,000 word pieces recently), I readily admit that I was heavily influenced by Chris Morris' Blue Jam work, although this was more a case of writing the stories and thinking, "Wow, that's quite Blue Jam-esque" rather than actually attempting to copy or emulate that style.

Anyway, listen in to "Radio Wildfire" on Monday 7th September between 8 and 10pm (GMT).  This will be the second time they've been gracious enough to accept my spoken word work (the broadcast a reading of "BobandJane" many moons ago) and they also feature a number of poets, writers and spoken word performers who I am familiar with from the West Midlands and Worcestershire scenes, all of whom are well worth your time.

Hope you enjoy them!