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National Flash Fiction Day

Underword returned for a special event on Wednesday 16th May 2012, to celebrate the UK’s first National Flash Fiction Day. The Scottish event was at The Bongo Club, Edinburgh, from 7.30pm–10pm.

Local spoken word powerhouse Inky Fingers ran an all-day flash fiction writers’ workshop on the day. One reader, Daniel Shand, wrote a story in the afternoon and performed it in the evening!

Paul Cockburn kindly wrote a review of the event for the Scottish Review of Books. Seth McAnespie captured some key facial expressions from the stories.

Readers

• Gavin Inglis — Stomp ’59
• Alec Beattie — Twitcher
• Maria Farrell — Giving
• Katy Hastie — The Last Supper
• Mike Jackson — Dressed for Success
• B.D. Logue — The Catch
• Jules Riley — The Gift
• Bethany Anderson — Paperback Romance
• Andrew C. Ferguson — Metamorf

• Brian Lincoln — Booked
• Mark Harding — Letters and Pursuit
• Daniel Shand — The Malingerer
• Kirsty Logan — Beauty
• Laura Cole — Working Relationship
• Andrew J. Wilson — The Thirst
• Veronique Kootstra — Wild Card
• James T. Harding — The Bach Prelude
• Roddy Shippin — Flashes
• Anniken Blomberg — Umbrellas
• Franz Grimley — Jobsworth

• Ali Maloney — After The Rain
• Ian Hunter — Stain
• Jane McKie — Kewpie
• Lynsey May — Two Dancing Doves
• Janet Nixon — Heads You Do
• Halsted M. Bernard — The Kettle and I
• Rebecca Green — Spam

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Previous Events

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Twenty-two nights of spoken word during Fringe 2009 — a different show every night.

The Ghost Of William Shatner

Can the lyrics work without the music? Turns out they can!

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