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In the Zone: Part 2

I have emerged from my self-imposed writing zone having slaughtered various darlings. I entombed myself within an attic space, surrounded...

In the Zone: Part 1

In an unnerving turn of events, I’ve been encountering a lot of zones recently. You know the ones: fuzzy boundaries, decayed ‘keep out’ s...

Panda-ing to the Neighbourhood

New story alert: the tip-top fellas at STORGY magazine (who published my weird Shakespearean tale 'Pentameter' in their Shallow Creek col...

The 'Storytelling Animals' of Autscape

Last week I returned to Autscape, the autism-run conference/retreat which takes place once a year and has become something of an annual u...

Submitting to Gut Instinct

Tweeted last week: It’s the sort of tweet I see quite often and its always heartening. Rejections are, of course, part and parcel of bein...

Knee-Deep in Novel Drafts: Roots and Rhizomes

I’ve been telling people who’ve been asking that I’ve just finished the second draft of the novel that I’m working on for my PhD. Truth i...

What is Happening: A Story

I was in my house and my hands dropped a ball I was holding and it fell to the floor. Instead of picking it up, I tabled a Vote of No Con...

The Vegan Sausage Roll: A Story

I went to Greggs to buy a vegan sausage roll. I waited in the queue, my £1 coin clutched in my fingers like I’d won it somewhere, or mine...

One Year of Cataloguing: The Final Stats

Pictured Above: The Zelda Calendar where I documented my cultural intake We’ve come careering to the end of what feels like one of the lo...

Those are some Big Words, mate

I've only gone and started up another spoken word night. Hell, yes, but of course. My famous friend Ali shuffled up to me a few months ba...

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David Hartley

Writer, Performer, Person