Two of Outsideleft’s favourite authors, superstars of thoughtfully badass indie publishing powerhouse Culture Matters, Charlie Hill and Wayne Dean-Richards, are getting together for a doubleheaded reading you can view live over Zoom. This will be followed by a snappy Q & A led by award winning poet, and associate editor at Culture Matters, Fran Lock. It’s a downer isn’t it that we haven’t featured Fran in Outsideleft or at an OL Night Out, as we have Wayne and Charlie. Anyway you can see them all together on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 at 6:00 PM (This is London time should you be fortunate enough to live outside Britain & Ireland or something and need to be aware of that).
Wayne will read from his Culture Matters collection of short stories, Money & Blood, “which probes the dark power of capitalism in our everyday lives, its legacies of violence, and its often tragic consequences.” Charlie will read from his recently published Culture Matters pamphlet This Albion: Snapshots of a Compromised Land, a psycho-geographical journey across the UK's post-industrial edges; a journey driven equally by wit, warmth, and keen-eyed observation.
Culture Matters says, “It will be wild!!!” Their word as always can be taken.
About the Authors:
Wayne Dean-Richards’ work has appeared in a shedload of magazines and several anthologies. Spouting Forth published a collection of his short fiction – At the Edge – and a novel – Breakpoints. Another story collection – Cuts – and one with his son Kalman Dean-Richards – A Box of Porn – subsequently appeared. A new story collection – Money & Blood – was recently published by Culture Matters, and a collection of poems – It's A Mad World But Funny – by Outsideleft, which were serialised here.
Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham, who left school at 16 to work in the Bull Ring fish market. He then spent decades in-and-out of minimum-waged work & years with no fixed abode or precariously housed. He started writing on buses & in the pub & his first novel was published in 2010. He now works as a Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund. Charlie still lives in Birmingham, though he is happiest up a fell or near the sea. His most recent contribution to Outsideleft Short Story Orgy series is here.
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Charlie and Wayne on Zoom
Sunday September 22nd, at 6pm
via Culture Matters, more information and link here
