"One hundred and fifty words by Gaffney are more worthwhile than novels by a good many others"
The Guardian
"David Gaffney is, I think, one of very few contemporary British Writers who have mastered the very short form" Nicholas Royle, Best British Short Stories
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TV rights to graphic novel The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head have been sold to Wall To Wall productions, part of Warner Brothers. The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head written with illustrator Dan Berry is out now with Top Shelf.
FAXFICTION
David's project Faxfiction - a set of six newly commissioned stories from six different writers
about defunct technologies was performed using those very same technologies at Waterside Arts Centre on 27 July - see details here.
WE WERE STRANGERS
David has a story is a new anthology called We Were Strangers - Stories inspired by Joy Division. There's a great review of the book here
THE THREE ROOMS IN VALERIE'S HEAD - review headlines
Funny, poignant, surreal and still warmly emotional and human — a delight to read." — Forbidden Planet
"Funny and weird... Valerie exhumes her love life by hanging out with all of the guys that didn’t work out, and the one that might still." — Barnes & Noble, Best Comics of February 2018
"strangely funny, and intensely quirky….dealing with issues of loneliness and isolation, relationships, and memory, it all builds up to something that synthesizes art and ideas, telling of a life in one woman’s head, seemingly trapped in the mistakes of the past." Comicon
"A darkly beautiful meditation on obsession & memory" Richard Bruton
David's new novel All The Places I've Ever Lived is out now on Urbane - see here
Check out David's article for The Guardian on writing flash fiction here.
