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- annie clarkson
I am a poet and fiction writer from Manchester in the UK.
My writing tends to be about these things: Pigeons. Fish and Chips. Child Abuse. Silence. Violence. Family. The sea. Being small. Listening through closed doors. Rough pubs. Bare feet. Scars. Snow. Enclosed spaces. Trampling in leaves. Ice-skating on the river. Dodgy men in the park. Identity. Therapy. Dirty fingernails. Big brothers. Being invisible. Absence. Arson. Maggots. Tattoos. Back yards. Bitchy mates. Abandoned mills. Hearing voices. Telling stories. Forgetting the time. Lost love. Hiding in wardrobes.
I love short fiction and prose poetry and short novels and all those pieces of writing that seem to slip inbetween genres and find their own identity.
my profiles, interviews and vids...
Readings and events... 2010-11
my book
reviews of winter hands
my sites
flax books
Unsaid Undone
my list of favourite short fiction collections...
- Adam Marek, Instruction Manual for Swallowing
- Anais Nin, Little Birds
- Anne Donovan, Hieroglyphics
- Anthony de Sa, Barnacle Love
- Clare Wigfall, The Loudest Sound and Nothing
- Etgar Keret, The Nimrod Flipout
- Ian McEwan, First Love, Last Rites
- Janet Frame, The Lagoon
- Josephine Rowe, East of Here, Close to Water
- Lori Ostlund, The Bigness of the World
- Lorrie Moore, Self Help
- Mark Illis, Tender
- Mary Gaitskill, Don't Cry
- Michael Kimball, Dear Everybody (not strictly short fiction, but...)
- Nik Perring, Not so Perfect
- Padrika Tarrant, Broken Things
- Raymond Carver, Cathedral
- Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn
- Samuel Ligon, Drift and Swerve
- Tania Hershman, The White Road
- Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
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3 comments:
ooooh, will check out
Are you paid for book reviews? Just wondering about how to earn a living from doing what I love–reading and writing poetry.
Are you still writing short shorts? My favorite genre.
Hi Christine... no, I don't get paid! I'm sure some reviewers do, but I don't know any personally who make money from it.. writing is a hard game! x
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