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"Life is sometimes hard for the protagonists of "Loffing Matters." It's hard for superfluous pensioners, impecunious tour guides and confrontational artists. Life is hard for men trapped in the tramlines of inevitability, exploited 7-Eleven workers, or tutors who rhapsodize to deaf ears. When life is hard, then laughing really does matter. Life is better if you can." Black Country novelist and lecturer Paul McDonald introduces a showcase of four comic writers - with two stories each from Liza Granville, John Mulcreevey, Joan Michelson, and Laurence Inman.
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Editor PAUL McDONALD's published work includes books on the industrial Midlands and on Philip Roth. The TLS hailed his fiction – two Walsall-set novels, Surviving Sting and Kiss Me Softly – as 'refreshing, surprising and comfortable in its own lucid, unpretentious skin'.
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LAURENCE INMAN has made a serious attempt at global stardom but after a brief appearance in Sex Lives of the Potato Men (‘the worst film ever made’), EastEnders (thown out of the Queen Vic for moaning) and Doctors (man in taxi) he’s now back on the scrapheap: writing stories, teaching kids and doing stand-up comedy.
LIZA GRANVILLE produced stories for women’s magazines for several years and has received fan mail from grannies. She published a novel with Flame Books, Curing the Pig (‘a massively addictive and surreal black comedy’ Big Issue) and Immanion are to publish two further novels, The Crack of Doom and Until the Skies Fall.
JOHN MULCREEVY’s first story appeared in Platform, a 1970s school magazine. After school he spent time cutting things – steel sheets, grass lawns – and drawing things – cartoon strips, the dole. He has been published in Birmingham Noir and Birmingham Nouveau.
JOAN MICHELSON grew up in America and settled in England. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of London. Her poems, stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies and she has won awards and competition prizes for her poetry chapbook, Letting in the Light.
About the contributors:
LAURENCE INMAN has made a serious attempt at global stardom but after a brief appearance in Sex Lives of the Potato Men (‘the worst film ever made’), EastEnders (thown out of the Queen Vic for moaning) and Doctors (man in taxi) he’s now back on the scrapheap: writing stories, teaching kids and doing stand-up comedy.
LIZA GRANVILLE produced stories for women’s magazines for several years and has received fan mail from grannies. She published a novel with Flame Books, Curing the Pig (‘a massively addictive and surreal black comedy’ Big Issue) and Immanion are to publish two further novels, The Crack of Doom and Until the Skies Fall.
JOHN MULCREEVY’s first story appeared in Platform, a 1970s school magazine. After school he spent time cutting things – steel sheets, grass lawns – and drawing things – cartoon strips, the dole. He has been published in Birmingham Noir and Birmingham Nouveau.
JOAN MICHELSON grew up in America and settled in England. She teaches Literature and Creative Writing at the University of London. Her poems, stories and essays have been published in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies and she has won awards and competition prizes for her poetry chapbook, Letting in the Light.
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