about david
“David Gaffney writes truly 21st century stories for a fragmented and fragmenting world; they’re short, snappy and utterly addictive”
Ian McMillan
David Gaffney is the author of three critically acclaimed flash fiction collections – Sawn-off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007) and Edgehill Prize-longlisted The Half-life Of Songs (2010) – and debut novel Never Never (2008). He comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria, and now lives in Manchester.
David is behind two of 2011’s more subversive literary events: guerrilla-writing project Errata Slips for Cornerhouse Micro Commissions, in which fake amends telling a story are surreptitiously added to magazines, and Station Stories, when six writers “secretly” performed short stories to audiences linked by headphones. Originally commissioned by Manchester Literature Festival and taking place in Manchester Piccadilly railway station, this is now being developed for new locations.
Check out my piece for the Guardian on how to write flash fiction here
David has appeared at venues around the UK and is the creator of various special commissions, including: Destroy PowerPoint, a series of stories in PowerPoint format launched at Edinburgh Festival in 2009; Buildings Crying Out, a story for Lancaster Litfest 2009 using lost cat posters; 23 Stops To Hull, a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2009); The Poole Confessions, stories told from a confessional box at Poole Literature Festival 2010, and the site-specific sound installation Boy You Turn Me, which ran throughout 2011’s Birmingham Book Festival and was scored by contemporary classical composer Ailís Ní Ríain.
David also collaborates with Ailís on Sawn-off Opera, mini-operas that have so far been performed at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and Royal Northern College of Music, London’s Tête à Tête opera festival 2010 and on BBC Radio 3. A new show is currently in rehearsal at Opera North in Leeds.
David’s work has been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, from Aesthetica to Stand, and he has written articles for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect.
Ian McMillan
David Gaffney is the author of three critically acclaimed flash fiction collections – Sawn-off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007) and Edgehill Prize-longlisted The Half-life Of Songs (2010) – and debut novel Never Never (2008). He comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria, and now lives in Manchester.
David is behind two of 2011’s more subversive literary events: guerrilla-writing project Errata Slips for Cornerhouse Micro Commissions, in which fake amends telling a story are surreptitiously added to magazines, and Station Stories, when six writers “secretly” performed short stories to audiences linked by headphones. Originally commissioned by Manchester Literature Festival and taking place in Manchester Piccadilly railway station, this is now being developed for new locations.
Check out my piece for the Guardian on how to write flash fiction here
David has appeared at venues around the UK and is the creator of various special commissions, including: Destroy PowerPoint, a series of stories in PowerPoint format launched at Edinburgh Festival in 2009; Buildings Crying Out, a story for Lancaster Litfest 2009 using lost cat posters; 23 Stops To Hull, a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2009); The Poole Confessions, stories told from a confessional box at Poole Literature Festival 2010, and the site-specific sound installation Boy You Turn Me, which ran throughout 2011’s Birmingham Book Festival and was scored by contemporary classical composer Ailís Ní Ríain.
David also collaborates with Ailís on Sawn-off Opera, mini-operas that have so far been performed at Liverpool’s Philharmonic Hall, Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre and Royal Northern College of Music, London’s Tête à Tête opera festival 2010 and on BBC Radio 3. A new show is currently in rehearsal at Opera North in Leeds.
David’s work has been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, from Aesthetica to Stand, and he has written articles for The Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect.
publishing history
Sawn-off Tales short story collection, Salt Publishing, 2006
Aromabingo short story collection, Salt Publishing, 2007
Never Never novel, Tindal Street Press, 2008
The Half-life Of Songs short story collection, Salt Publishing, 2010
“David Gaffney could well be the king of flash fiction writing right now”
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Aromabingo short story collection, Salt Publishing, 2007
Never Never novel, Tindal Street Press, 2008
The Half-life Of Songs short story collection, Salt Publishing, 2010
“David Gaffney could well be the king of flash fiction writing right now”
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