Bare Fiction Podcast

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Live readings by poets, fiction writers and playwrights. Bare Fiction is dedicated to promoting, producing, presenting and publishing new writing in all forms. This is our weekly podcast of live readings by poets, fiction writers and playwrights. Bare Fiction | Registered in England and Wales. Company No. 8798494

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Lessons by Jacob Polley

This track is from Jackself: the Album, coming soon, with sound by John Alder and words by Jacob Polley. The poem 'Lessons' was first published in Issue 8 of Bare Fiction Magazine (August 2016, www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/buy/issues…gust-2016/). Jacob’s new collection ‘Jackself’ is out November 2016 from Picador (wordery.com/jackself-jacob-poll…47290445#oid=1160_1). Subscriptions to Bare Fiction Magazine — a tri-annual literature journal of poetry, fiction & theatre — can be ordered from o...

Sep 20, 2016•3 min

Every Creeping Thing by Jacob Polley

This track is from Jackself: the Album, coming soon, with sound by John Alder and words by Jacob Polley. The poem 'Every Creeping Thing' was first published in Issue 8 of Bare Fiction Magazine (August 2016, http://www.barefictionmagazine.co.uk/buy/issues/bare-fiction-magazine-issue-8-august-2016/). Jacob’s new collection ‘Jackself’ is out November 2016 from Picador (https://wordery.com/jackself-jacob-polley-9781447290445#oid=1160_1). Subscriptions to Bare Fiction Magazine — a tri-annual literatu...

Sep 20, 2016•1 min

#10: Theatre - Matthew Bulgo

A short play by Matthew Bulgo, performed by Joanne Ferguson and directed by Alice Malin. In Matthew’s play 'On Hold' a woman’s routine falls into disarray as a tragedy besets her home life. The smallest things begin to take on whole new levels of significance and now that her schedule has been obliterated, she finds that the most agonising thing of all...is waiting. The recording you’re about to hear was made on September 24th 2013 at the Dogstar, Brixton during the launch of issue 3 of Bare Fic...

Dec 01, 2014•14 min

#9: Short Story - Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson

Short story reading from Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson. This week Lindsay Waller-Wilkinson reads extracts from her short story Chiaroscuro which appeared in Issue 1 of the magazine. The recording you’re about to hear was made on December 19th 2013 at the Shrewsbury Coffeehouse during the launch of issue 1 of Bare Fiction magazine. Make sure you check back every Thursday for the best in new poetry, fiction and plays. You can purchase the magazine in print and digital formats by visiting www.barefictio...

Sep 04, 2014•12 min

#8: Short Story - Carly Holmes

Short story reading from Carly Holmes. Carly Holmes reads her short story from Issue 2 of the magazine. The Black Night Long and shares an extract from her first novel, The Scrapbook (Parthian Books). Katherine Stansfield called The Scrapbook “A beautifully crafted novel... a bittersweet exploration of family - the ties that bind, and the ties that bite.” This recording was made on April 30th 2014 at the Gwdihw Cafe in Cardiff during the launch of issue 2 of Bare Fiction magazine. Make sure you ...

Aug 21, 2014•13 min

#7: Poetry - Jemma L. King

Poetry reading by Jemma L. King. Jemma is a founding member of the Centre for Women’s Writing and Literary Culture and has read and published her work internationally. Her debut collection The Shape of a Forest (Parthian Books) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2013. She was selected as a Scritture Giovanni Fellow in 2014 and she won The Terry Hetherington Award in 2011 for her poem on Amelia Earhart. Her new collection, The Undressed, is also published by Parthian Books. This record...

Aug 14, 2014•22 min

#6: Short Story - Tania Hershman

Short story/flash fiction reading by Tania Hershman. Tania Hershman’s short fictions have won her many prizes. She is a consummate author of extraordinary brief fiction that for me, crosses the boundary between poetry and prose in a very exciting way. Now, as well as two collections of short fiction, My Mother Was an Upright Piano (Tangent Books) and The White Road (Salt), Tania is also co-author of a forthcoming book from Bloomsbury’s academic imprint, Writing Short stories, which is A Writers'...

Aug 07, 2014•16 min

#5: Short Story - May-Lan Tan

Short story reading by May-Lan Tan from her collection Things To Make and Break (CB editions 2014) May-Lan is a Hong Kong-born writer who lives in London, where she studied for a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. As well as her short story collection she also has a chapbook called Girly (Future Tense Books). The Guardian called Things to Make and Break “an excellent debut”, PANK called it “mind-blowingly good”, and our own Lucy Jeynes in her review in Issue 2 of Bare Fi...

Jul 31, 2014•15 min

#4: Poetry - Adam Horovitz

Poetry from Adam Horovitz, the poetry judge in the inaugural Bare Fiction Prize for Poetry 2014. It seems fitting to launch the Bare Fiction Prize with a reading by one of our judges, so today we have poetry from Adam Horovitz. Adam’s new book, A Thousand Laurie Lees is a poetic memoir of his time growing up in the Slad Valley. He moved there with his parents, the poets Michael and Frances Horovitz, shortly after he was born in 1971. And it’s evident that the Gloucestershire countryside has been...

Jul 24, 2014•13 min

#3: Poetry - Matthew Broomfield

Poetry from Matthew Broomfield. Matthew is a poet from the West Midlands, currently living in Oxford and studying for a BA in English Language and Literature. He was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year and has written for the NYT, the National Poetry Society, the London School of Liberal Arts, Left Foot Forward and in the Independent on Sunday. He is co-editor of The Isis, a long standing independent magazine established at Oxford University in 1892 as well as being the current vice-president of the ...

Jul 17, 2014•10 min

#2: Poetry - Bethany W Pope

This week we have a poetry reading from Bethany W Pope. Bethany has published two collections of poetry, A Radiance (Cultured Llama Press, 2012) and Crown of Thorns (Oneiros Books, 2013). You can read Adam Horovitz’s review of Crown of Thorns along with two poems by Bethany in issue 2 of Bare Fiction Magazine. Bethany W Pope is an American poet living in the UK, she is rightly pleased this year to have her first American chapbook published by Writing Knights Press from Cleveland, Ohio, called Th...

Jul 10, 2014•17 min

#1: Short Story - Rachel Trezise

The first edition of the Bare Fiction Magazine Podcast, presented by editor Robert Harper. This week we have a reading from award winning writer Rachel Trezise, who shares an extract from her short story, Punctuation (Parthian Books). Make sure you check back every Thursday for the best in new poetry, fiction and plays. Recorded live at the Gwdihw Café Bar, Cardiff on April 30th 2014. The music for this podcast was "Sidewalk Shade" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons:...

Jul 03, 2014•20 min

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