Posts Tagged ‘Grit-Lit’

[ December 3, 2009 7:30 pm to December 4, 2009 3:00 am. ] [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Major Lazer aka Diplo and Switch"][/caption]

Just before I was going to do a shameless plug for my gritty short story night at Red Roaster (which is on tonight!), it did occur to me that I happened to pick a pretty spectacular night for my event.

Not only were there two other literary [...]

At recent Brighton Festival fringe literary event Grit Lit, Tim Lay read an extract from his second novel Rats with Wings, which tells the tale of a London copper – Lewis – who is dragged down to Brighton by her sinister patrol partner Letch for an unknown and dodgy pretext.

Again, another writer featured from the Brighton Festival fringe night Grit Lit at the Red Roaster. Here is Tara Gould’s short story “Little Birds”, which is the story of Grace, a woman who’s alcoholic father has just died and she must return home to comfort her mother. The story explores Grace’s conflicting feelings for the man she despised, yet mourns and sketches out the tragic life he led. Ultimately Grace must confront herself in the face of losing a person who is irevocably flesh and blood – her father.

[ May 7, 2009; 7:45 pm to 10:45 pm. ] If you fancy a night of stories of that will make Hunter S possibly turn in his cannon-singed grave, come along next Thursday (7th May) to this evening Amythefilmmaker (Amy Riley) is organising and reading at called Grit Lit.