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BristolCon Fringe: April 2015 - Open Mic Part III

The April Fringe meeting was an open mic event at which anyone was welcome to come along and read, for just five minutes each. In the first batch of readers were:

• Justin Newland - "The Fool of Abbots Leigh"
• Cheryl Morgan - extract from "Gunpowder, Treason & Plot"
• Thomas David Parker - the rest of "The Shell"
• Cord Frazer - "Tutti Fruiti the Nightmare" (which he translated from Polish on the night)

There was no Q&A session as we had so many lovely readers.

BristolCon Fringe: April 2015 - Open Mic Part II

The April Fringe meeting was an open mic event at which anyone was welcome to come along and read, for just five minutes each. In the first batch of readers were:

• Thomas David Parker - "The Shell"
  
• Richard Bendall
• Wgl - Is that the correct spelling?
  
• Jack Anderson - an extract from Meet me by the Gallows

During this section we also have a brief interlude in which we are streaming live to Poland.

BristolCon Fringe: April 2015 - Open Mic Part I

The April Fringe meeting was an open mic event at which anyone was welcome to come along and read, for just five minutes each. In the first batch of readers were:

• Pete Sutton - who managed 5 stories in his 5 minutes ("Overdue Book", "Werewolves are Hairy", "Rumbled", "Zoophilia" and "The Memory of Light")
• Dan Pawley - "Worlds Together" (published in Jupiter #41)
  
• Joanne Hall - extract from "Arrested Development" (unpublished)
  
• Philip Purser-Hallard - trailer for The Locksley Exploit

The MC is Cheryl Morgan, and the ticking strawberry of doom was provided by Heather.

BristolCon Fringe: March 2015 - Q&A

Finally for September, Cheryl and the audience put Chris and Paul to the question. We talk about Chris's forthcoming play about vampires and social media. We discuss works of Victorian fiction, including Dracula and Sherlock Holmes. We consider the possible murderous tendencies of Neil Gaiman & George R.R. Martin. And Paul has heaps of exciting news about new projects 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: March 2015 - Paul Cornell

Our second reader for March was a very special guest, Mr. Paul Cornell. Paul is a man of many talents having written for television (Doctor Who) and comics (Captain Britain, Demon Knights, etc.) in addition to prose fiction. For Fringe he gave us an exclusive extract from the new Shadow Police novel, which won't be available in the shops until the end of the year. Paul reveals the title of the book during the reading, and when you hear whose murder his heroes will be investigating we are pretty sure you'll want to read the whole thing.

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

BristolCon Fringe: March 2015 - Chris Cutting

Our first reader for March is Chris Cutting. He is, as Jo Hall says in her introduction, Very Theatrical. There may not be anything fantastical in his story, but there is a definite element of horror to it, and perhaps a little steampunk.

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

BristolCon Fringe: February 2015 - Q&A

Finally for September, Jo and the audience put John and Stark to the question. We learn more about the mysterious origins of Nunslinger. Bass Reeves, the famous lawman whom Stark mentions, is also a central character in Elizabeth Bear's recent novel, Karen Memory.

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

BristolCon Fringe: February 2015 - Stark Holborn

Our second reader for February was Bristol's own piece of the wild, wild west, Stark Holborn. Stark read a deleted scene from Nunslinger. The reading was abetted by a couple of varmints chosen from the audience, but sadly their failed to come to the microphone to speak their parts so he sound quality of those bits is somewhat lacking.

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

BristolCon Fringe: February 2015 - John Hawkes-Reed

Our first reader for February is John Hawkes-Reed, who treats us to another tale about steam-powered, programmable war elephants. Well, part of a tale anyway. To get the rest of it you'll need to get hold of North by Southwest, a fine anthology by local Bristol writers, and edited by our very own Jo Hall. The book is illustrated by Clare Hutt, who also started BristolCon Frine and drew our logo.

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

BristolCon Fringe: January 2015 - Q&A

And finally there was the usual Q&A session. Emma and Pete were grilled about their writing relationship. How do they manage to live with another writer? Will they ever collaborate on a novel? What has Latimer got to do with all this, and will asking that question lead to a spot of mild peril? All of this and more may be revealed.

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