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I have 222 stories published in
10 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 363463 times
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Drew Gummerson
Author of Me and Mickie James (Jonathan Cape) and The Lodger (GMP), and many stories here and there. Follow me at @drewgum. Seven Nights At The Flamingo Hotel is coming November 2020. Pre-order here https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store
My stories
Breaking into Commercial Fiction
I've just got back from Loughborough Uni where I was attending the Writing Industries Conference. It was a great day.
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Don Quixote
It would be difficult to write an amusing blog about mass suicide so I won’t even try.
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Me and Mickie James Cover
This week I received the cover for ‘Me and Mickie James’. I was surprised. I was expecting a picture. Instead it is covered in writing, front and back. Also it’s black.
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National Year of Reading 2008
This year is the National Year of Reading . (That’s reading as in reading books, not Reading as in the town outside London.
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As If!
There was a quote at the end of the Start the Week podcast. Q. “Why are you not unhappy?" A.
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I enjoyed reading this too
Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020
I enjoyed reading this too this morning.
Read full commentPosted in The Village 5
This beautiful story of
Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020
This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in Home
Agreed. A ray of hope.
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020
Agreed. A ray of hope.
Read full commentPosted in I Tell Myself This When I Am Afraid
Glisk and glassiness work so
Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020
Glisk and glassiness work so well together.
As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still.
Read full commentPosted in Walking Away
Love it. Congratulations.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Love it. Congratulations.
Read full commentPosted in Deimos
The poem is sentimental in
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
Read full commentPosted in The Sea is Sentimental
Another really brilliant
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture.
Read full commentPosted in Barn Owls
Agree with the above and I
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...
Read full commentPosted in Whispers
I liked this - quickly sets
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...
Read full commentPosted in Jungle
It's a great first line.
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there.
Read full commentPosted in Starling
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