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About Me

Our next event on September 27th features special guests Tom McCarthy and Russell Celyn Jones and is part of Hackney's Write to Ignite Festival. Matthew De Abaitua will also be reading from his debut novel.Here's an image of Adelle Stripe, Brutalist poet, reading at our last event.Anything but Hackneyed is a local writer-reading event that takes place at The Broadway Bookshop on Broadway Market, E9.
We're hoping to publish an anthology of local writing (fiction and non-fiction) in the near future and are always looking for submissions and new readers.
As well as being an event, Anything but Hackneyed is also a person: me and I write flash fiction, short stories and novels. My work has been published by The Guardian, 3:AM magazine, Dogmatika, Laura Hird Showcase, Scarecrow, Industry of Guilt, and Le Monstre.

My Interests

Books, writing and Manchester City football club.

I'd like to meet:

Other writers, especially from Hackney area. A good agent.

Music:

God. Anything that's a bit left-field, a bit challenging. What's the point in having a collection full of the same stuff. I like experiencing a vast range of sounds.At the moment I'm liking Patrick Wolf, Ellen Allien, Nik Bartsch, The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, anything the Optimo guys do, Bill Evans, Art Brut, Leonard Cohen, The Unicorns.

Movies:

All sorts. Art-house stuff. Altman - I've got a thing about ensemble works. Liked Hidden and Lemmings last year. Greenaway, Pasolini and more mainstream directors like Scorsese and Malick.

Television:

Boring documentaries. Anything that teaches you stuff. Don't like to watch a lot of TV. Think most of it is shit.But I do have a bit of a soft spot for 80's mini-series things like Threads, Roots, GBH and to my shame even Shogun.

Books:

The Damned Utd by David Peace is incredible. Probably my favourite novel of past few years.Big pompous American writers mainly, Pynchon, Roth, Auster, McCarthy, Updike, Dellilo, Ford, Bret Easton Ellis, Joyce Carol Oates.Do like Margaret Atwood, Rushdie, some Amis (Money, London Fields - thought House of Meetings was great), some Ballard, Will Self and a endless host of other writers.

Heroes:

Tony Benn (for still fighting the fight), Tony Wilson (for factory, granada reports and the hacienda - get well soon Tony), Pedro Almoldovar (for loving women), Patti Smith (for horses), Bill Werbeniuk (for combining a prodigious appetite for alcohol, with sportmanship and a cunning tax dodge) and Stan Lee (for all the comics).

My Blog

Russell Celyn Jones to appear at later event.

I'm afraid Russell isn't going to make our September event. But don't worry Tom McCarthy and Matthew De Abaitua are still going to be reading, so it's sure to be as interesting an event as usual.
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:43:00 PST

September special guests: Tom McCarthy & Russell Celyn Jones

September's ABH is once again presented in conjunction with 3:AM magazine and is part of Hackney's Write to Ignite festival.The september readings take place as usual on the last thursday of the month...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 02:17:00 PST

Pics from July's reading

July's event was a stormer, Niven Govinden, Melissa Mann and Adelle Stripe were all well-received by a good crowd.Personally though, I enjoyed Adelle's performance best. She's one talented writer and ...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:36:00 PST

July event part of LondonLitPlus

Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:27:00 PST

Off-piste with Toby Litt, Heidi James and Lee Rourke

Thanks to all who attended the reading last Thursday. It was a really enjoyable evening. Toby gave a great reading, going off-piste with his reading from 'Hospital' and treating the crowd to a fairy-t...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Mon, 28 May 2007 04:27:00 PST

'Seven reasons why I could never be a suicide bomber' on Dogmatika now

Shortly after the London suicide bomb attack I wrote a short satirical piece as an introduction to the inaugral Anything But Hackneyed event.It's called 'Seven reasons why I could never be a suicide b...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

'Black Ties' - new short story on Laurahird.com

Death, bad language, corrupt cozzers, blasphemy, divorce and racism.All in less than 5,000 words.Read my latest short story on the Laura Hird Showcase here. Always good to hear reader reactions....
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:52:00 PST

New short story published by Industry of Guilt

Industry of Guilt have just published one of my short stories. You can read 'Worms' here. Any comments really appreciated....
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:38:00 PST

Toby Litt to read at Anything But Hackneyed in May

Toby Litt will be reading at Anything but Hackneyed on Thursday May 24th at 6.30pm in The Broadway Bookshop, 6 Broadway Market, Toby Litt was born in Bedfordshire, England, in 1968. He read ...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:06:00 PST

Really great short story from 1988 by Richard Grayson

American author, Richard Grayson, has recently posted an old short story from 1988 on his blog. 'You've Got to Give me Credit' is a really impressive piece of writing. You can read it here. My favour...
Posted by Anything but Hackneyed on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:16:00 PST