Unsung Live #6: Tuesday 6th December
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Hot on the heels of Unsung Live #5, we're happy to announce our return to The Star of Kings (http://starofkings.co.uk/) for a special Christmas edition of dark short tales for the winter months.
Reading around the metaphorical campfire are:
• Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA from the University of East Anglia. Her debut novel, Rawblood (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25327494-rawblood) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015) won best horror novel at the British Fantasy Awards, and was nominated for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. It will be published in the US and Canada as The Girl from Rawblood (Sourcebooks, 2017). Catriona’s second novel will be published by W&N in 2017. She works for a human rights foundation and lives in London.
Twitter: @Catrionaward (https://twitter.com/Catrionaward)
• Helen Marshall is a Lecturer of Creative Writing and Publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. Her first collection of fiction Hair Side, Flesh Side (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15821238-hair-side-flesh-side) won the Sydney J Bounds Award in 2013, and Gifts for the One Who Comes After (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22130074-gifts-for-the-one-who-comes-after), her second collection, won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson Award in 2015. She is currently editing The Year’s Best Weird Fiction (http://www.undertowbooks.com/years-best-weird-fiction/) to be released in 2017, and her debut novel Everything that is Born will be published by Random House Canada in 2018. Twitter: @ManuscriptGal (http://www.twitter.com/ManuscriptGal)
• Aliya Whiteley writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static and Strange Horizons. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007.
She is the author of two novellas published by Unsung Stories, The Arrival of Missives (http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/the-arrival-of-missives-by-aliya-whiteley/) and The Beauty (http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/the-beauty-by-aliya-whiteley/), which was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Sabotage Award, and appeared on the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jr Award. She blogs at: aliyawhiteley.wordpress.com (http://aliyawhiteley.wordpress.com/) and she tweets most days as @AliyaWhiteley (https://twitter.com/AliyaWhiteley).
• M.R. Carey has been making up stories for most of his life. His previous novel The Girl With All The Gifts was a word-of-mouth bestseller and is soon to be a major motion picture based on his own screenplay. Under the name Mike Carey he has written for both DC and Marvel, including critically acclaimed runs on X-Men and Fantastic Four, Marvel's flagship superhero titles. His creator-owned books regularly appear in the New York Times graphic fiction bestseller list. He also has several previous novels, two radio plays and a number of TV and movie screenplays to his credit. Follow M. R. Carey on Twitter as @MichaelCarey191 (https://twitter.com/michaelcarey191) and on Facebook at Facebook.com/MRCareyAuthor (https://www.facebook.com/MRCareyAuthor)
The event is FREE and all are welcome, but space is limited so make sure you RSVP.
If the event does hit full capacity, please sign up to the waiting list as spaces are likely to come up on the day – and we can can keep an eye on whether we should be thinking about a bigger venue.
And if you sign up to Unsung Shorts (http://signup.unsungstories.co.uk/shorts) you'll receive a brand-new piece of short speculative fiction delivered to your inbox once a fortnight and receive a FREE ebook (http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/the-best-of-unsung-shorts/) containing the best short stories we have published so far. http://www.unsungstories.co.uk/shorts
Here's what people said about the last event:
Zomg! @IrenosenOkojie (https://twitter.com/IrenosenOkojie)is killing it at #unsunglive (https://twitter.com/hashtag/unsunglive?src=hash)! We need to read her collection, Speak Gigantular, immediately! – @storyological (https://twitter.com/storyological/status/788452707342385152)
Had a really cracking time last night at #unsunglive (https://twitter.com/hashtag/unsunglive?src=hash) – @DanCarpenter85 (https://twitter.com/DanCarpenter85/status/788655216988127232/photo/1)
@IrenosenOkojie (https://twitter.com/IrenosenOkojie)'s story of a tiny man grown in soil was a sheer bloody treat. @UnsungTweets (https://twitter.com/UnsungTweets) #UnsungLive (https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnsungLive?src=hash) – @MagdaKnight (https://twitter.com/MagdaKnight/status/788633340823867394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Fab evening of readings @UnsungTweets (https://twitter.com/UnsungTweets)with the wonderful authors @IrenosenOkojie (https://twitter.com/IrenosenOkojie)@tadethompson (https://twitter.com/tadethompson)@Suttope (https://twitter.com/Suttope)Next on 6 Dec. Don't miss :-) – @annecharnock (https://twitter.com/annecharnock/status/788514314357473280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Loved the readings by @Suttope (https://twitter.com/Suttope) @annecharnock (https://twitter.com/annecharnock) @IrenosenOkojie (https://twitter.com/IrenosenOkojie) & @tadethompson (https://twitter.com/tadethompson) at #unsunglive (https://twitter.com/hashtag/unsunglive?src=hash)last night. Effing brilliant! – @Dystocalpyse (https://twitter.com/Dystocalypse/status/788662511528775680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Great evening tonight @UnsungTweets (https://twitter.com/UnsungTweets) Thank you story-tellers and Unsung themselves. – @derGullen (https://twitter.com/derGullen/status/788504096806436864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
Have to say, like the kids say, @UnsungTweets (https://twitter.com/UnsungTweets) night#UnsungLive (https://twitter.com/hashtag/UnsungLive?src=hash) is 'on point'...totes is. Live literature rocks – @ListenSoftlyLdn (https://twitter.com/ListenSoftlyLdn/status/788465463869206529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)