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Bristolcon Fringe: January 2014 - Q&A

This is the Q&A session from the January 2014 BristolCon Fringe event. The guest readers are Désirée Fischer and Lou Morgan. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan. Topics covered include Dante, Milton, Beowulf, Gawain and the Green Knight, and writing in a second language.

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

Bristolcon Fringe: January 2014 - Lou Morgan

This is the second reading from the January 2014 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Lou Morgan who reads her story, "Her Heartbeat, An Echo", from the Jurassic Book of the Dead anthology. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Lou Morgan lives in Bath with her husband and son (and the obligatory writer’s cat). Her short fiction has appeared in anthologies from PS Publishing, Solaris Books and Jurassic London – most recently, in Jurassic’s Egyptian mummy anthology, “The Book of the Dead”. Her first novel, “Blood and Feathers”, was published by Solaris Books in 2012 and was nominated for two British Fantasy Awards, being shortlisted in both the “Best Newcomer” and “Best Fantasy Novel” categories. The sequel, “Blood and Feathers: Rebellion” followed in the summer of 2013.

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

Bristolcon Fringe: January 2014 - Désirée Fischer

This is the first reading from the January 2014 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features German writer, Désirée Fischer. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Désirée Fischer is working for a well known Cult and Entertainment store by day and leading a not so very secret life as a writer by night. She grew up in Germany but always wanted to move to England, so she packed her suitcase as soon as she finished university and has never looked back.

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

BristolCon Fringe: December 2013 - Kevlin Henney + Q&A

This is the third reading from the December 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features a third flash fiction story from Kevlin Henney and a Q&A session with both Kevlin and Joanne Hall. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

The story that Kevlin reads is "Milk Teeth and Chocolate Eggs", which was first published in The Liminal.

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

BristolCon Fringe: December 2013 - Joanne Hall

This is the second reading from the November 2013 BristolCon Fringe reading. It features Joanne Hall who treated us to the first ever reading from her forthcoming novel, The Art of Forgetting: Nomad. The event is hosted by Cheryl Morgan.

Joanne Hall is the Chair of BristolCon. She has published four novels and one collection of short fiction, and has stories in many anthologies. She has also edited anthologies. The Art of Forgetting series is published by Kristell Ink. Nomad is the sequel to the first volume, Rider.

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

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.