Author: garybudgen

Reading at the Enfield Literary Festival

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As part of Clockhouse London Writers I took part in a reading at the Enfield Literary Festival on Sunday 26th June 2018.

Allen Ashley writes:

“Clockhouse London Writers were delighted to be invited to read in the Dugdale Theatre, Enfield on the evening of Sunday 24 June 2018 as part of the first-ever Enfield Literary Festival. With Clockhouse founder Allen Ashley hosting the evening, the group presented a range of short stories, novel excerpts, poetry and flash fiction covering all the bases from ghosts, dragons, mermaids and unicorns; passing through high fantasy and medieval palaces on to Victorian Gothic, transformative animals and on to ecological concerns, near-future wars, artificial intelligence, spaceships and aliens. The evening finished with our dramatic collaborative piece “The Clockhouse Players Present”. Readers were: Allen Ashley, Gary Budgen, Rima Devereaux, Sarah Doyle, Stephen Oram, Cassandra Solon-Parry and Sandra Unerman.”

I read my story “Black Ribbon” originally published in Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction and reprinted in my chapbook Chrysalis. I must add that the collaborative piece  “The Clockhouse Players Present”, which we did at the end, was great fun to do. One of the members of the audience afterwards described it as Brechtian. All-in-all a wonderful night and great to be part of the Enfield Literary Festival.

 

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Another Place – Alf Dubs Children’s Fund

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My story “The Immaculate Ones” is in Another Place. A charity anthology of speculative fiction in aid of the Alf Dubs Children’s Fund. I’m pleased and honoured to be part of this and hope it does well and raises lots of money for the charity and raises awareness of the issue. Thanks to all those involved in producing it.

“This science fiction anthology from both established and emerging writers explores the experiences of children, refugees and migrants as they navigate unfamiliar and often hostile worlds in search of sanctuary. A child in a dusty old bookshop is captivated by a picture book that leads him far from home. On a newly discovered planet, a group of soldiers escort a group of mysterious children across the desert. A man carries out a macabre sentence on the grimy Lunar regolith, not knowing if he will ever be forgiven for his crime. And in an alternate-universe Japan, a boy unravels a deeper mystery while searching for the girl he loves. The anthology raises money for child refugees and all profits will be donated to the Alf Dubs Children’s Fund via Safe Passage.” from the Publishers.

This book is launch alongside Voices along the Road an anthology of flash fiction and poetry for the same charity.

Both available now from Amazon:

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New stories out

I have three stories in two anthologies from Thirteen Press. Out towards the end of 2017.

“The Piano Room” and “The World Below the Window” (a reprint) in Missing/Empty Rooms double anthology, and “Icaria” in Nothing to Lose. 

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