Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
VLAK Magazine
I’m very pleased to be in the new VLAK Magazine, a curated art and literature magazine from Prague, thanks a lot to one of the editorial board, Louis Armand for inviting me to contribute.
My story “The Good Citizen” is a very contemporary short story set in London. The magazine is available now and has been launched in Prague and London. I’m alongside many luminaries of the more innovative end of the contemporary literature scene so its a pleasure to be involved.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- 20 Years AgoThis weekend sees the students returning to Manchester and local kids giving up their summer jobs to head to other cities. It suddenly struck me that twenty years ago I was also starting at University of Manchester, for my M.A. in novel writing.In truth, I'd been prompted to memory by the documentaries about Princess Diana's death. I'd left my […]
- Day of the Locust by Nathanael West"Day of the Locust" is a novel that I've always been meaning to read, and despite its short length never quite got around to. A novel about Hollywood, by one of American fiction's sharpest literary observers, it didn't disappoint, though it wasn't the novel I'd been expecting.For in "Day of the Locust" published i […]
- 7 Towns in 7 DaysThere's an oft used cliche about southerners never venturing north of Watford, but there is, of course, the corollary to that, the northerners who've never ventured much further south than Euston. Take a look at the map of England and there are whole chunks at the edges, we're a geographically bulbous nation, and each of those bulges is a pote […]
- Last Days of the Midland by Adrian Slatcher
- Filling the Creative SpaceAs is my wont, I have been sidetracked from one of the many projects I should have been finishing, into a new little project that reached up and grabbed me last weekend. I started recording a long instrumental using just my Roland Juno 6 Synthesizer, and it ended up as a 25-minute piece reminiscent of the multiparted Tangerine Dream influenced electronica I […]
