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There are interviews with all of the finalists from the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize here.
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Ian Dudley
- Jan 22, 2021
The Manchester Fiction Prize
The Manchester Fiction Prize is an international competition with a cash prize of £10,000 for the writer of the best short story...
Ian Dudley
- Apr 5, 2020
Dr Strangelove
Dr. Strangelove: Riding the Bomb Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20...
Ian Dudley
- Mar 21, 2020
Sometimes you need to look out of the window
I worked at a data company for 30 years. I was a software developer, not a data scientist, but I implemented other people’s models in...
Ian Dudley
- Sep 19, 2019
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Last night I went to the launch of the first issue of the PBLJ at the Woodman pub near Eastside Park in Birmingham. The editorial and...
Ian Dudley
- Sep 3, 2019
Easy as ABC
Glacier near Mont Blanc I got an email from my hosting company saying that in two months time (if things play out as the UK government...
Ian Dudley
- Jul 7, 2019
A dance exploration of cell biology
Dancer interacting with a T cell Not me this time, but my partner. She's been providing scientific input to Impelo, a Welsh dance...
Ian Dudley
- May 19, 2019
Interview
I've learned a lot from reading interviews with writers—The Paris Review sort of thing—but I'm not keen on talking about my own writing:...
Ian Dudley
- Apr 15, 2019
Dubliners
I recently edited half a dozen stories from James Joyce’s “Dubliners” for the Read With Audrey library. Audrey is a space where people...
Ian Dudley
- Mar 28, 2019
BansheeLit
I have another poem from The Hours coming out in April in Banshee issue 8. The poem is about a notable, tree—a 300 year old oak in the...
Ian Dudley
- Feb 12, 2019
Poetry Salzburg Review
I have a handful of poems from The Hours in the Winter 2018 / 2019 issue of PSR (no. 33). There are also some eco poems from Ella Duffy...
Ian Dudley
- Jan 8, 2019
Riggwelter Issue 17
I have a couple of poems from The Hours in the January issue of Riggwelter (pages 20 and 28) which can be found here.
Ian Dudley
- Nov 26, 2018
Second Prize Rosette: Poems About Britain
Second Place Rosette Second Place Rosette is a collection of poems about the customs, rituals and practices that make up life in modern...
Ian Dudley
- Oct 5, 2018
Manchester Cathedral Poet of the Year 2018
Il regista britannico Derek Jarman alla Mostra del cinema di Venezia del 1991 by Gorup de Besanez My poem ‘5 AM: Paradise: First Light’...
Ian Dudley
- Oct 2, 2018
A Book of Common Prayer
At the suggestion of Holly Corfield Carr, in Spring 2018 I wrote a Book of Hours: a sequence of 24 poems, one for each hour of the day. I...
Ian Dudley
- Sep 17, 2018
The Writers' Cafe
I contributed an 8 word poem to the Truth and Lies edition of The Writers' Cafe poetry magazine. I had in mind the Zen dictum: Words do...
Ian Dudley
- Sep 15, 2018
One
Fire Spirit by Conor Walton One is an interesting on-line publication. Contributors can submit only one poem per issue and the new issue...
Ian Dudley
- Sep 12, 2018
The World Explained Through Fountain Pens
Nakaya Piccolo string-rolled (shiro tamenuri urushi) on a binakul jacket from Anthill Fabric Gallery. © Leigh Reyes. I am a fountain pen...
Ian Dudley
- Aug 8, 2018
The Long Hot Summer
The North 60 contains a ton of good stuff, including poems by The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition winners and their New Poets...
Ian Dudley
- Jul 14, 2018
Indifferent Cresses
Indifferent Cresses by Holly Corfield Carr "Indifferent Cresses" is a book of poems by Holly Corfield Carr produced by the National...