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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...

Hard or Easy? Exploring Autistic Influence at (In)sane

This coming Sunday (14th Oct) sees the debut of a new piece of music/writing fusion written and composed by me and brother Rick. It's a 2...

Flocking to the Creek

Fiction-wise, I have a few new incomings on the horizon. This is particularly nice as I've had quite the drumming of rejections recently,...

The Intake: Mid-Year Stats

At the start of this year, dizzy from gorging end-of-year ‘best of’ lists and trying frantically to remember everything I saw/read/played...

Taking Stock: July 2018

It's been a busy old first half of the year, so I thought it worth pausing to collage together some of the various notable bits and piece...

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David Hartley

Writer, Performer, Person