That's Philip Douch and me reading funny stories on 29th and 30th September at the Ale House in Stroud. Tickets £7. Concessions £5.
More info + tickets here - https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/198434
There's an interview/author profile of me on the website of Chris Hill, the Bridport Prize winning author. Thanks Chris!
It's here - https://www.chrishillauthor.co.uk/2017/09/john-holland-author-profile/
My interview with ZeroFlash will appear on their website on 5 October 2017.
I will be reading at least one of the pieces of flash fiction being published in the 2017 Worcestershire Literature Festival Flash Fiction Anthology in Worcester on 12 November. The venue is the Drummonds Bar, The Swan with Two Necks at 4pm on Sunday 12 Nov 2017.
The event, with Philip Douch, is called 'Philip and John's Medium-sized Night Out'. It's at the Ale House in John Street, Stroud at 8pm on Fri 29 Sept and 6pm on Sat 30 Sept 2017.
Tickets are available online from -
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/198434
Or in person or by phone from the TIC in the Stroud Sub Rooms.
My short piece of flash fiction, The Feather, has been published on the Reflex Fiction website. It was also long listed for the autumn prize.
Here it is - https://www.reflexfiction.com/the-feather-by-john-holland/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
The nice people at the ZeroFlash website have asked me to do an interview. Thank you.
Here is their website - https://zeroflash.org/
The interview will be there soon.
The US flash fiction website 101Words has today published my little piece 'Tropical Fish', in which I exorcise a childhood memory.
Together with writer Philip Douch I will be reading at September's Stroud Theatre Festival on Friday 28 September at 8pm, and Saturday 30 September at 6.00. The event is called 'Philip and John's Medium-sized Night Out'.
Theatre Festival brochure here - http://www.stroudtheatrefestival.co.uk/brochure.html
Tickets for festival performances are £ 7.00 and £ 5.00 (concessions)
Booking online -
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/event/198434
Booking by phone 01453 760900
or visit Stroud TIC in the Stroud Subscription Rooms
Tentatively scheduled for 15 August the US website 101Words will publish my little flash piece 'Tropical Fish'.
I'm not allowed to name the story but it's in the final ten. The theme is 'green'. Results end of August.
https://www.retreatwest.co.uk/green-theme-flash-comp-shortlist/
My flash piece 'Combining' has been published online today by Reflex Fiction.
Here it is - https://www.reflexfiction.com/combining-by-john-holland/
'Skin', 'The Guy at the Bar' and 'I was in Need of Money' will all be published in the WorcsLitFest Flash Fiction Anthology 2017.
Dorset Fiction Award, which short listed my story 'Orly', has now published it online together with an interview and biography.
http://www.dorsetfictionaward.co.uk/orly---john-holland.html
As well as the long listed 'The Feather', the online flash fiction website Reflex Fiction is to publish my little story 'Combining' in the week beginning 31 July.
My story 'The Feather' (250 words) has been long listed for the Reflex Fiction Flash Fiction Summer 2017 Competition and will be published online.
My story (which I cannot currently name because the award is judged blind) has moved from the 34-strong long list to the 10-strong Dorset Fiction Award short list and will be published in the anthology. Winner announced in two weeks.
It's taken three years to get this published somewhere, after many near misses. Here it is -
http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/the-river-by-john-holland.html
My story is one of 34 stories long listed for the first Dorset Fiction Award for stories of 1,000 words or less.
http://www.dorsetfictionaward.co.uk/news/june-2017-long-list