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“David Gaffney is a lovely, unselfconscious performer 
with a great artistic vision”  The Scotsman

“Immediately engaging with his audience as he read from Sawn-off Tales, David Gaffney showed why he is an expert at delivering great live readings to back up the excellent books he writes”  

Edinburgh Book Festival Blog

To book David for performances, contact him here.


upcoming

Thursday 22 October Liverpool John Moores University 
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Wednesday 25 November Milton Keynes Literature Festival 



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Check out David's live literature and organ combo Les Malheureux.

Read a review of David's Edinburgh reading here.

Here's a video of David reading some stories

recent performances
22 January Man Met University
21 September Northern Lights, Waterside Arts Centre, Sale
5 October - Flash In The Van - at Burnley Literature festival
5 November - Edgehill University, Ormskirk

23 November Macclesfield Litt UP festival
7 July The Talyrand, Levenshulme, reading from the Joy Division anthology, We Were Strangers.
27 July Faxfiction at Waterside Arts centre

11 May Altrincham Words Festival
17 May Chester University
1 June Leeds short story festival
8 June Victoria baths

19 February Manchester Metropolitan University
23 February Ropewalk, Barton-Upon-Humber
25 February University of Manchester

28 October - 2018 workshop -  Wood green works,  London
3 November 2018 Lancaster University
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 November 2018 , Arvon, Totleigh Barton, Exeter 

6 October 2018 Old Nat West Bank, Withington Manchester 3.45 - reading from We Were Strangers
18 October 2018 Vinyl Fiction, Chorlton, Manchester

15 October 2018 - Lakes International Comic Arts Festival, Kendal Cumbria

14 Sept Waterstones 2018
21 July 2018 Bristol Flash Fiction Festival
22 February 2018 - Launch of graphic novel, The Three Rooms In Valerie's Head, Gosh comics, Soho, London
12 March 2018 Reverb at Edgehill University



David has performed on BBC Radio Three and GM Radio, at a number of festivals (including Edinburgh Festival, Manchester Literature Festival, West Port Book Festival, Birmingham Book Festival, Chester Literature Festival, Wigan Literature Festival, Sefton Literature Festival and Lancaster Litfest), and at various venues, including: Chelsea Arts Club and Foyles in London; Royal Exchange Theatre, The Anthony Burgess Foundation, Whitworth Art Gallery, Urbis, Manchester Art Gallery and Central Library in Manchester; FACT, Whitechapel Gallery and Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool; Birmingham Conservatoire; Dukes Theatre and The Storey Institute in Lancaster, and The Continental in Preston.



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