A.J Kirby: The Writer
Who is the writer A.J Kirby?
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The chances are, if you have visited this site, you are either:
a) interested in reading good writing; b) looking to find out more about Andy Kirby the writer; or c) spying on me.
I'd like to hope that you're here to find out how I'm doing with my writing, or that you are genuinely interested in understanding what exactly I'm trying to do...
... because, you see, I am writing because I always wanted to. I just never knew how to start, or what to write about. Then, like a lightbulb clicking on in my head, I realised that I just had to get on with it.
This site is testimony to how far that I've come, and also how far I've still got to go. It contains information about how I started writing, what drove me to write, and also examples of the actual writing. I write to try to make myself a better person, and I am proud of what I've done so far.
Now, if you've got through all of that claptrap above, then hopefully you'll want to read more; so enjoy the site, leave me a message, follow your own dreams!
If you're an editor or a publisher, then maybe just read the below:
"Andy Kirby is a writer whose portfolio includes short stories, features, non-fiction articles and full-length fiction. He has enjoyed publication in a number of quite different fields, although creative writing is his first love."
"It is harder to put your foot in your mouth when you have a pen in your hand." William Safire, On Language
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Latest Published Works
Since the beginning of 2007, Andy has been published, or has work accepted for future publication by the following:
Short Stories: Graveside Tales (in the anthology - Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths), Skrev Press (in Texts' Bones), Nemonymous 8: Cone Zero, Sein und Werden (published in both the print and online versions of the magazine. For the online story, please visit: http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/2_4/page24.html), on the Huddersfield Literature Festival website (http://www.litfest.org.uk/documents/one-wish-fountain.pdf) New Voices in Fiction anthology, Ten Nails (pending publication), Word Weavers General Fiction Anthology, Champagne Shivers (pending publication, January 2009), Golden Visions magazine, New Voices in Fiction magazine, Necrology magazine (pending publication in the September 2008 issue) The 2nd Hand (http://www.the2ndhand.com/web69/allotment.html) and Shortalk.
Longer Fiction: Extract from the novel-in-progess, Background Noise to be published in the Spring 2009 edition of Monkey Kettle magazine.
Features and Reviews: BBC Sport, Sense Magazine (Natwest Bank), Writers' News, Risk-UK, IP Focus Magazine, Itchy Leeds Magazine, Itchy Leeds website, Itchy Leeds Guidebook.
Radio/ Performance Art: 'Skeleton in the Closet' available on Podcast after a performance on BCB Radio (Bradford) - for your FREE CD Rom copy, please send a stamped addressed envelope to the address as listed on the Contacts Page.
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