Lane Ashfeldt, Life, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Life, Punk Fiction, Short stories, Win, Writing on June 16, 2009 at 10:57 AM
Tie-breaker Q: Who were the Romantics and what defined them? NB this is a no-google question, please just answer Rorschasch style with the first thing that comes into your head, sending your answer as a comment. The winner will be contacted by email and the book sent to them by post. Deadline to enter: 21 June 2009
Punk Fiction reviewed in The Guardian: “You leave its pages realising that being a punk really just means being young, high on the fumes of freedom and puffing your lungs up big enough to breathe life into the world.”
Lane Ashfeldt, Pulp Net Short Story cafe, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Punk Fiction, Short stories, Writing on June 15, 2009 at 12:55 PM
at the Pulp Net Short Story Cafe (which is at Costa Lower Regent Street, London and runs from 7pm to 8.15ish approx). Nicholas Hogg and I will read from Punk Fiction, Lynsey Rose and Bilal Ghafoor from WWWTJBTE. A chance to have a look at both books, maybe buy a copy if you like what you see.
London, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Freelance, Punk Fiction, Short stories on May 3, 2009 at 3:53 PM
Saw a copy of Punk Fiction for the first time at the launch in Soho the other night. Guess what? It’s a hardback. A first for me. Publisher Portico has made a smart-looking book, and a wild time was had by all - the only way to clear a path to the bar was to shout out that you’d just got off a plane from Mexico and needed a hot whiskey for your throat. Here’s a few of the assembled literati at Dick’s Bar, editor Janine Bullman, and one more outside on the Soho streets.
Lane Ashfeldt, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Freelance, Punk Fiction, Short stories on April 24, 2009 at 10:49 AM
The launch event for this anthology (which features a story by me), is Monday 27 April at ‘Dick’s Bar’, The Green Fingernail, 23 Romilly Street, Soho, London W1D 5AQ. Romilly St is that little one just south of Old Compton St, and entry is free so if you are in the area why not drop in….just ask for the Book Club Boutique. There will be readings, music and hopefully a little bit of rowdiness.
More here.
Punk Fiction, Short stories, Writing
In Punk Fiction, Short stories, Writing on April 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM
A story by one of my co-writers in the Punk Fiction anthology is up online at the Independent. The story’s called ‘Another Girl, Another Planet’ (after the song by The Only Ones) and was written by Paul Smith from Maximo Park. If you want to hear the song, on the other hand, you should find it here… Thought I knew this song, but the version in my head was more poppy, with less guitar– someone else must have covered it?
punk, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Life, Short stories on March 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM
I’ve been thinking how much longer things used to take to spread from one country to another. By the time I heard of punk I expect it had pretty much crashed and burned in London but it was still reverberating in other places. My story in this Punk Fiction book is set in Germany and the music is from America and Ireland. So when I saw a union jack on the front cover, I was a bit surprised. Seeing it on my blog looks kind of strange, too.
Freelance, Punk Fiction, Short stories
In Freelance, Short stories, Writing on March 18, 2009 at 9:35 AM
Here is the jacket for this Punk Fiction collection that I’ve a story in, which seems to be on its way out some time in the next month or two. It has lots of stories by writers with different viewpoints on the whole punk thing. Author royalties are being donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Here’s what Johnny Marr has to say in the introduction:
All punk was about a story. It was about living the story in your own head. Good or bad, fact or fiction, it didn’t matter, as long as it wasn’t boring. This book brings together stories with the punk spirit in the hope that it might inspire, provoke or simply entertain, as punk did.
