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BristolCon Fringe: October 2015 - Q&A

Finally we get to the part of the evening that involves live torture. Cheryl Morgan puts both readers to the question, and the audience is asked to think of things to say. Jo reveals her inner darkness, and Jonathan describes how Carter & Lovecraft came to be written.

This BristolCon Fringe event was staged as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature.

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

BristolCon Fringe: October 2015 - Jonathan L. Howard

Continuing our Halloween theme, Jonathan L. Howard launches his latest novel, Carter & Lovecraft. There are no tentacled horrors from beyond the stars in the excerpt that he reads (you'll need to buy the book for them). However, there is a particularly nasty serial killer. The cops get very sweary.

This BristolCon Fringe event was staged as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature.

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

BristolCon Fringe: October 2015 - Joanne Hall

This is the first of our Halloween special deeply creepy readings from October. Jo Hall is more generally known for being the Queen of Grimdark, but there is no mass slaughter in this excerpt from her latest novel, Spark & Carousel. Instead there's something cold, calculated and ultimately horrible.

This BristolCon Fringe event was staged as part of the Bristol Festival of Literature.

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

BristolCon Fringe: August 2015 - Q&A

Finally for August, our readers were put to the question by host, Cheryl Morgan. There was talk of intelligent monkeys, fairy tales, growing old, and living in a two-writer household. There was also a lot of talk about this year's BristolCon and Bristol Festival of Literature. Sadly those are now long in the past, but you can always look forward to next year.

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

BristolCon Fringe: August 2015 - Gaie Sebold

Our second reader for August was Gaie Sebold. She entertained us with three pieces of flash fiction. The first was a re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood; the second involved an encounter with fairies; and the third a great deal of scrubbing and polishing. Also she had great shoes.

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

BristolCon Fringe: August 2015 - David Gullen

Here, rather a lot later than planned, are the podcasts from the August BristolCon Fringe.

Our first reader was David Gullen who entertained us with a tale of monkeys, keyboards and works of literature, complete with sound effects (and rather a lot of swearing on behalf of one of the monkeys).

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

BristolCon Fringe: July 2015 - Q&A

Finally for July Cheryl Morgan puts the readers to the question. Nick talks a lot about snails. Cheryl makes a pun more horrible than either of the stories, everyone gets nostalgic about B Movies and video shops, and we preview Tom Parker's appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe.

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

BristolCon Fringe: July 2015 - Ken Shinn

Our second reader for May is Ken Shinn. His story, "Dying Inside", is a horror tale inspired by, of all things, cake. He does have a story in Killer Bees from Outer Space, but this is not it. Oh no. Ken's insects are much nastier.

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

BristolCon Fringe: July 2015 - Nick Walters

Our first reader for May is Nick Walters. His blog describes him as a writer, poet, cyclist and oik. He has written many Doctor Who spin-off novels, but for Fringe he treated us to "Blood Slobber of the Scrunge Worms". It is from the anthology Killer Bees from Outer Space, which is stories inspired by B Movies. Please don't scream too loudly while listening to it.

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

BristolCon Fringe: May 2015 - Q&A

Finally for May Cheryl Morgan put our two readers to the question. Sophie and Ben talk about the influences and inspirations for their respective books. There is discussion of the problems faced by small presses and independent authors when trying to get their books into shops.

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