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On Being a Critical Reader

One of the greatest pleasures of having writers as friends is when they ask your opinion on their works in progress. It’s always an honou...

Writing Animals: Pigskin

For a long while I tried to keep my gastronomical inclinations out of my animal stories after deeming meat-eating too obvious a target an...

Writing Animals: A Place to Dump Guinea Pigs

Tuesday 13th September, Liar’s League in London, actor Greg Page reads my latest animal story “A Place to Dump Guinea Pigs”: Enjoy that? ...

Is there a Doctorate in the House?

Announcement time. As of the 19th September 2016 I will be returning to the University of Manchester to start a part-time PhD in Creative...

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...

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David Hartley

Writer & Researcher