BristolCon

Bristolcon Fringe: June 2014 - David J. Rodger

Our first reader for June was David J. Rodger. David is a Bristol based author of science fiction dark fantasy with eight novels under his belt. Themes include thrillers, horror and action adventure. He is also the creator of Yellow Dawn – The Age of Hastur, an RPG that blends Cthulhu Mythos and Cyberpunk themes into a post-apocalyptic setting. His books cross many boundaries to deliver a new and exciting fusion of ideas and genres. Each book is stand-alone and can be read in any order, but occupy a shared universe allowing you to build a deeper knowledge with every story. He has written for SFX and had short stories published in the UK, US and Canada.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: May 2014 - Q&A

Finally we have our traditional Q&A session with the readers. Cheryl reveals her obsession with superhero fiction, and Cavan tells us a little more about the Omega League and the fate of the Cabot Circus shopping centre. There is, as usual, discussion of the writing process. And Jonathan L. Howard tells us a little more about the world of his Goon Squad stories.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: May 2014 - Cavan Scott

Our second reader for May was Sunday Times Bestselling Author Cavan Scott. He has written numerous books, audio dramas and comics based on popular cult series as Doctor Who, Blake ‘s 7, Highlander and The Tomorrow People.

He specialises in writing licenced fiction for children, and recently has been writing a line of horror stories for teenage reluctant readers. He’s edited magazines in many different markets from Countryfile to Disney Girl, and writes Roger the Dodger, Bananaman and Minnie the Minx for the Beano.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: May 2014 - Justin Newland

Our first reader for May was Justin Newland.

Justin lives in Somerset with his girlfriend and writes historical, fantasy and speculative fiction with a supernatural bent. Excerpts of his work have entertained listeners at various events in the Bristol area. He published a short story in an anthology entitled Hidden Bristol and appeared as a panellist at last year’s Bristol Con.

Justin has been a member of writers’ groups in Bath and Bristol. He is currently, he is writing the first novel of his magnum opus, a pre-apocalyptic trilogy entitled The Genes of Isis.

Regular podcast listeners will know Justin as “the man who asks questions”. This month we get to turn the tables.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Fringe in a Flash - Q&A

Our final podcast from the April BristolCon Fringe event featured a discussion with all of the writers who kindly read their flash fiction for us. As seems to be the fashion, it turned into a discussion about writing: in particular how and why one would write flash as opposed to any other length of fiction.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Fringe in a Flash - Part 2

This is the second half of the April BristolCon Fringe event, which was devoted to flash fiction.

Louise Gethin read us a story about the secret lives of garden gnomes.

Cheryl Morgan took us to the very end of the universe.

Justin Newland explained why people end up in hell.

And Pete Sutton made us feel very nervous about little brothers.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Fringe in a Flash - Part 1

This is the first half of the April BristolCon Fringe event, which was devoted to flash fiction.

Pauline Masurel entertained us with a couple of cosmologically-themed stored, including one involving Professor Brian Cox doing something he has never done before.

Jonathan Pinnock has a very disturbing tale involving collecting an unusual order from a butcher.

Jonathan L. Howard read a story from his GOON SQUAD series of stories about Mancunian superheroes.

And finally Kevlin Henney treated us to the true story of Little Red Riding Hood.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: March 2014 - Q&A

Scott Lewis and Roz Clarke kindly stuck around for the regular interrogation session, which this month turned into a discussion of novel writing technique. We learn about the problems of second chapters, and the usefulness or lack thereof of outlining. Kevlin Henney shocked everyone by mentioning the F-word: "finish".

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: March 2014 - Roz Clarke

Our final reader for March was Roz Clarke. She divides her time between Bristol and London, and has recently completed a 2-year stint of corporate problem-solving, leaving her to focus fully on the important things in life: writing, gaming, the impending apocalypse, and bicycles. She is a graduate of Clarion West, and has had short fiction published in magazines including Black Static, as well as the Dark Spires anthology and Andy Bigwood’s The Sixty. With Joanan halls she edited Colinthology and Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion. She’s also a member of the BristolCon team. You can find her at www.firefew.com or on Twitter: @zora_db.

Roz also read a chapter from a novel in progress. As we reveal later in the Q&A, it is set in an alternate world version of Bristol.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.

Bristolcon Fringe: March 2014 - Scott Lewis

Our second reading for February was from Scott Lewis. Scott is a Bristol-based journalist, writer, photographer and casual adventurer who has only recently started dabbling in fiction, and will eventually manage his time sufficiently enough to get his first novel finished. Until then he intends to amuse himself by writing more short stories, chronic procrastination, rummaging around old book stores and libraries for obscure myths, legends, and folklore, and gallivanting off to far-flung parts of the world on ‘research trips’.

Scott read the first chapter of the aforementioned novel, which involves a gunfight in a brothel and a rickshaw chase. Please note that in the Q&A at the end of the evening Scott makes it clear that Dash is by no means the hero of the novel.

BristolCon Fringe is a monthly reading series produced by the BristolCon Foundation. For details of future events, see our website.