BristolCon

BristolCon Fringe: December 2013 - Kevlin Henney

This is the first reading from the December 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features flash fiction expert, Kevlin Henney. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Kevlin is the organizer of Bristol's annual contribution to National Flash Fiction Day. His work has been published in a variety of venues, including New Scientist. The stories that he reads are "Remembrance of Things Past" (originally published at The Fabulist) and "Ashes to Ashes" (originally published by Kazka Press). Kevlin returns with a third story in the third reading.

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

BristolCon Fringe: November 2013 - Jonathan L. Howard

This is the second reading from the November 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Jonathan L. Howard. Jonathan reads two stories. The first, "Cowboy Kim", was written specially for the event. It is based in part on the song, "Big Mess" by Devo. Quotations from the song are used with kind permission of the band. The second reading is the prologue of the forthcoming 4th novel about Johannes Cabal. The podcast also includes a brief Q&A session with both Jonathan and Ian Millsted. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Jonathan L. Howard is an author, scriptwriter, and game designer. He is best know for the Johannes Cabal series, and for the YA SF Russalka Chronicles. He lives near Bristol with his wife and daughter.

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

BristolCon Fringe: November 2013 - Ian Millsted

This is the first reading from the November 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Ian Millsted, who reads his story, "The Traveller's Apprentice", from the forthcoming anthology, Airship Shaped & Bristol Fashion. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Ian Millsted migrated from Essex to Bristol via Norwich. He currently teaches in Bath. He has had a few short stories published in various places, and was short listed for the Bristol Short Story Prize a few years back. He also writes about comics for Back Issue magazine. Mostly he is just trying to do more in less time.

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

BristolCon Fringe: September 2013 - Q&A

This is the Q&A session from the September 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. Piotr Świetlik talks about writing in two languages and the state of the SF&F scene in his native Poland. Tim Maughan talks about the influence of hip-hop on his writing, and gives some exclusive information about the novel he is working on.

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

BristolCon Fringe: September 2013 - Tim Maughan

This is the second reading from the September 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Tim Maughan, who reads from part of his story, "Limited Edition", and the whole of "Zero Hours". The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

After spending most of his life putting it off, Bristol based author Tim Maughan finally started writing science fiction back in the heady days of 2008. In 2011 he released the critically acclaimed Paintwork, a collection of three short stories dealing with the roles of art, celebrity and globalisation in a very near, and strangely familiar, future. His story “Limited Edition” (published in New Scientist‘s Arc magazine) was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association 2012 short fiction award, and he was recently included in SFX magazine’s ‘Hot 50′ for 2013.

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

BristolCon Fringe: September 2013 - Piotr Świetlik

This is the first reading from the September 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Piotr Świetlik, who reads from a short story he is working on. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Piotr Świetlik is an SF/F author, DJ, husband and father, originally from Silesia in Poland. He holds a Master’s degree in Information Brokering which helps to keep the hunger for knowledge burning and provides him with ideas for stories. He loves reading SF and his favorite authors are Roger Zelazny, Philip Dick and Michael Moorcock, the first mentioned being the most influential on his writing. He has lived in UK for the past nine years. He has been writing short stories for the past ten years or so, some of them published in Poland. So far his only published story in English is in the Full Frontal Lobe e-zine.

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

BristolCon Fringe: August 2013 - Gareth L. Powell

This is the second reading from the August 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Gareth L. Powell, who reads from his forthcoming novel, Hive Monkey. This is the first ever public reading from the book. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Gareth L. Powell is the author of the novels Hive Monkey, Ack-Ack Macaque, The Recollection and Silversands, and the short story collection The Last Reef and Other Stories. His books have been favourably reviewed in The Guardian and, in 2007, one of his stories came top of the Interzone annual readers’ poll for best short story of the year.

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

BristolCon Fringe: August 2013 - Myfanwy Rodman

This is the first reading from the August 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Myfanwy Rodman, who reads from her current novel in progress. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Myfanwy Rodman has a creative writing degree and is currently working on an epic fantasy novel, amongst other projects. She will have a story in the forthcoming anthology, Airship Shaped and Bristol Fashion.

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