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Fiction Desk Vol 2 review

My review of All These Little Worlds: The Fiction Desk Anthology Vol 2 is live at Bookmunch.
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Valerie O'Riordan is mostly to be found scavenging chocolate from vending machines. Here's a brief and messy biography [click].

I'm a writer and editor. My chapbook, Enough, is published by Gumbo Press (May 2012), and is available both in paperback and for the Kindle. I'm also a creative writing workshop leader. Click on the links for details and for info on how to sign up to the workshops (do sign up!). Contact me at valerie.oriordan at gmail.com and follow me on Twitter. Go on.

What, more? Well, I placed first at the 2012 Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize (anthology forthcoming in late 2012) and the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize (anthology here). I was also shortlisted in the flash fiction category in the 2010 Bridport Prize. I've got stories in various off- and on-line places - most recently in Flash365, Quickies, Storyglossia, Exposure, the National Short Story Week website, the Chamber Four Anthology and Bugged. There's a sneak preview of my novel-in-progress up at Beat The Dust.

I'm also a book reviewer and co-editor of Bookmunch, which combines two of my passions - reading and free things. Click here to see an up-to-date list of my reviews.

If you're curious, here's what I've been reading:

2012 Reading List [click]
2011 Reading List [click]
2010 Reading List
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2009 Reading List [click]

In 2009/10 I did an MA in creative writing at the University of Manchester. Click below to find all my posts about it:
MA Creative Writing
I'm interviewed by:
Blankpages
The Creative Identity
Nik Perring
The Bristol Prize
Tom Vowler
PANK

Other writers worth checking out:
A.J. Ashworth
Jenn Ashworth
Elizabeth Baines
Brian George
Adam Gilmour
Tania Hershman
Karl Hodge
Rupan Malakin
The Paper Face Girl
Nik Perring
Martin Reed
Holly Ringland
Claire Snook
Tom J Vowler
Martha Williams

Archive:

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      • Beirut 39 review
      • Erin Morgenstern review
      • Enough is available to buy online!
      • chapbook draw results!
      • vlog, take 2!
      • Happy...
      • books and flashes and a GIVEAWAY!
      • Five Minute Friday
      • Claire Massey and Kevin Barry reviews
      • Enough
      • Spilling Ink Flash Fiction Prize 2012
    • ►  Apr 2012 (7)
      • sneak preview
      • billygean made me do it
      • Jawbreakers cover!
      • NFFD final list!
      • game on!
      • deadlines!
      • Safran Foer review
    • ►  Mar 2012 (8)
      • Will Wiles review
      • Roshi Fernando review
      • sign up, sign up!
      • workshops
      • Holy famous writers, Batman!
      • Radio Face '12
      • Flash fiction call for submissions!
      • Flash365
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      • William Boyd review
      • NFFD results
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      • Yiyun Li review
      • Thomas E. Kennedy review
      • Chris Beckett review
      • reading & competition!
      • Reading List 2012
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      • 2011: best year EVER
      • National Short Story Day 2011
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      • Sarah Hall: review and reading
      • novel extract!
      • Fiction Desk Vol 2 review
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      • prizes and fraud and all sorts
      • Evelio Rosero
      • Simon Van Booy review
      • A.S. Byatt review
      • BBC National Short Story Award 2011 Anthology revi...
      • post-smut trauma
    • ►  Sep 2011 (6)
      • smut!
      • A.L. Kennedy review
      • what, I have to think of a title, too?
      • BBC National Short Story Award 2011
      • Stephen Kelman review
      • Michael Ondaatje review
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