Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
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Contact Details
I can be contacted by email at adrian (dot) slatcher (at) Gmail (dot) com or on twitter at @adrianslatcher
If you would like a signed copy of my books please get in touch directly.
My publishers can be contacted as follows :-
Salt Publishing
Copies of “Playing Solitaire for Money” can be ordered from here or contact the author.
Knives Forks and Spoons
Copies of “Extracts from Levona” can be ordered from here or contact the author.
Live Readings
I am an experienced reader of my own work, and I am happy to read at your event or festival, particularly with other writers. Please contact me directly if you would like my involvement. Examples of my reading live can be found on the site. I am currently reading mainly from my Salt collection “Playing Solitaire for Money”.
Collaborations
I am a diverse writer, and write fiction, poetry and non-fiction, I also work with music and digital formats. If you would like to suggest a collaboration, are looking for contributions to an anthology or would like me to review for you, or have any other ideas please get in touch.
Workshops
I am an experienced trainer, facilitator and chair, and will be happy to discuss opportunities around creative work, literature, and the use of digital by the arts. Again, please get in touch.
Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- Blogging OffI've been blogging for a long time, but what was once called "push button publishing" has found itself left behind in an era of social media tweets and Facebook posts on the one hand, and web zines and memes on the other.I've been not writing that much here for quite some time, an the odd review or feature couldn't really make up for […]
- Albums of the DecadeWith 2019 - and the decade - coming to a rapid close, the first lists of "best albums of the 20-teens" have started to come out. Whereas the younger me could tell you what year any album had come out, everything gets a bit hazy around the millennium...and continues to be so.Was "The Suburbs", easily my favourite Arcade Fire album as long […]
- Never Mind / Bad News / Some Hope - Edward St. AubynThe three novels Edward St. Aubyn wrote about "Patrick Melrose" between 1992-94, though they've since been expanded to a quintology, are really three long chapters of the same book. In "Brideshead Revisited" Sebastian Flyte warns Charles Ryder about his family, not wanting them to first charm him, and then destroy him; but any such w […]
- Short StoriesI had a bit of a flurry of getting short stories published a few years ago, but nothing in the last year or so. Strangely the last story I had published was picked up for Best British Short Stories 2018. I think I've lost the thread of who is publishing what, but doing a bit of writer's admin, I've found I've got about half a dozen comple […]
- Art ThoughtsI've been thinking of doing more visual art for a while, and finally having a space of my own where I can set up a "studio" has led me to do it. Not being an "artist" I wondered why I was wanting to do this as well as my writing and music. Here are a few thoughts.I am not an artist. Or rather I haven’t the skill of an artist, even if […]
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