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Dalliances and Happenings

What a tick-tock, wheely-whizzing, turnabout summer we’re having; it’s equal parts all over the place and nowhere at all. But things are ...

Writing Animals: Shooting an Elephant

It is with rather astonished and delirious delight that I can say these words: the current issue of Ambit Magazine (no. 224) features one...

The 27th and 28th May 2016

48 Hours 48 of the most significant hours of my life so far. A bold statement perhaps, and one I make tentatively given that it is only j...

Spiderseed on the Saboteur Award Shortlist

Extremely delighted to say that Spiderseed has been shortlisted in the Best Short Story Collection category at the Saboteur Awards. Huge ...

Spiderseed: Laying the Eggs

For those of you who have read my latest collection Spiderseed, here's a bit more background about each of the stories. Enjoy! Trails In ...

Spiderseed: Catching the Flies

The spider has hatched. The book is here. It has crawled out from it's web and is crawling all over peoples' skin and mouths and souls. I...

True Story: The Fourteen Stations of Blasphemy

Back in the heady days of 1997, my drama teacher Dad ran foul of the local churchgoers of Preston after he decided to stage a theatre show...

Spiderseed: Spinning the Web

In a little under two weeks my brand new collection of flash fictions will be birthed and screaming for your attention. The incy wincy sp...

Writing Animals: A Time Before Horses

The latest in my series of stories about animals has galloped free, ready for public consumption. Following hot on the tails of my dog, r...

The Costs of Writing: Literary Magazines

The latest issue of The Alarmist magazine opens with a lengthy and rather gloomy introduction from editors Gary and Mansour titled 'Memoi...

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David Hartley

Writer, Performer, Person