Old technology – we all used it, and it’s still there: cassette tapes, floppy discs, videos, 35mm slides, overhead projectors, Ansaphones, games consoles, View-Masters, faxes, Dictaphones, reel to reel, Ceefax…
How did we function with these ancient machines, these relics of the future?
In FaxFiction, six writers – Sarah-Clare Conlon, David Gaffney, Rosie Garland, Valerie O’Riordan, Fat Roland and Nicholas Royle – have created six brand-new short stories focusing on these old technologies, and they will perform their pieces using gathered artefacts as part of this show, made uniquely for Refract:19.
CREATIVE TEAM
Sarah-Clare Conlon is Literature Editor of Creative Tourist and Writer-in-Residence at Manchester’s Victoria Baths. Her creative writing has been published by Centre for New Writing, Comma, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Flash, Reflex Fiction, Salt, Spelk, Stand and The Other Room, and in new Arachne anthology Story Cities.
David Gaffney is the author of four collections of short fiction, Sawn-off Tales, Aromabingo, The Half-life of Songs and More Sawn-Off Tales, two novels, Never Never and All The Places I’ve Ever Lived, and graphic novel The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head. A third novel and second graphic novel are on their way.
Tagged ‘literary hero’ by The Skinny, Rosie Garland is a poet, novelist, singer with post-punk band The March Violets and Writer-in-Residence at th
