Tomlit

Here are some bios and website links to people we like, love and work with.  Please spare a moment to check them out.

 Georgina Hardcastle-

"I'm nineteen and I live in a little town in Yorkshire called Holmfirth, where it rains a lot and everyone knits their own clothes. I've been writing bizarre short stories fairly regularly for a couple of years.  I hope to one day own a hideously pretentious tea shop, mainly to justify the amount I spend on hideously pretentious tea. Other than that I'm a fairly average person."

 Daniel Hughes- Visit him here

"The winter that I was five my sister and her friend encouraged me to pick up a stick they'd spotted in the back garden.  Keen to prove I was agood brother I ran off to retrieve it.  They watched from the window as I plunged my hands into a half frozen dog turd, conveniently covered mostly by snow, ruining the mittens my mum had made me.  I hated life for a whole two hours that day.  I've spent the last sixteen years trying to get those hours back."

 Francesca Allfrey-

"You can see King’s Cross when you sit on the roof of my house. The red brick of the clock tower glows a beautiful russet colour, and then darkens to purple as the sun sinks behind it.  This is one of the reasons for my love affair with London.  Places which once seemed so glamorous and far away from the village I grew up in, are now a part of my everyday landscape.  I like to write about the city, but I also like to experiment with style, and I hope that this comes through in the resulting work."

Alex Thornber- Visit him here

"I always find these things difficult.  How much should I tell you?  How much would you actually want to know?  What could I say that might sound interesting or memorable?  I have no idea.  So, when it comes down to it I guess I should just say, hi I'm Alex."

 Laura Mears-

 Teresa Stenson- Visit her here

"My hair is somewhere between brown and red, dyed and undyed...  I've been writing 'properly' for about 4 years since I gave up a more conventional career in EFL teaching to do this writing thing.  So I work in the same place I did when I was 18 - a cinema/bar/art space.  It's working out okay.  I've been published widely in print and online and you can read more of my work, rejections and acceptences, or sometimes just transcripts of conversations I've scribbled down in coffee shops when I should have been writing, over in my blog."     

Brittany Dirk -

"I’m currently scraping by on New York City's dark and dangerous Upper East Side.   I’ve had some poetry published here and there, trying to get people to read my short stories (but they keep asking me to loosen the knots).  I’m working on the second draft of a self deprecating and very embarrassing novel. I think life is just God's T.V show of the moment, like Lost or the O.C."

The Pygmy Giant - Read it here

The Pygmy Giant is a great british lit mag.  Run by a very nice lady named Mel, TPG publishes a great veriety of new, british short fiction under 800 words.