@AlanBeard4

Short story/flash writer - 2 collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador 1999); You Don't Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010). Tom Gallon award

 Birmingham UK
Joined June 2012
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Affairs, drink, unemployment, drugs. Damaged houses. Low wages. Single mothers. A wrecked car up on bricks. Yes, it’s an Alan Beard story.
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📚 Four writers, one evening: Amanda Smyth, Malachi McIntosh, Taylor Burns & Alan Beard read at @temperandbrown, #AlbionStreet, on Tue 27 Oct. Doors 7pm, first reading 7:30pm. Free entry. #JQLife #JewelleryQuarter #JQBooks @AmandaSmyth8 @AlanBeard4
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See this Instagram post by @vocebooks instagram.com/p/DRPszBxDJ94/…

Voce Books (@vocebooks) • Instagram photos and videos

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I’ve stopped posting on X for obvious reasons, but allow me to be a hypocrite and promote my forthcoming book of stories ‘Afternoon Drinking’ launched on Nov 6th. A long way off, but you can buy tickets now! (Link in comments if I can work out how to paste)…
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ALAN BEARD: AFTERNOON DRINKING

Hear from a true specialist of short-form fiction as award-winning Birmingham-based writer ALAN BEARD takes us AFTERNOON DRINKING.

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I am also reading!
Helen Cross@helenxwriter8 Apr 2025
This event is on Thursday. please join us to hear new stories, share literary chat, have fun and raise lots of funds for the @brumshospice.
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Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 73 books I read in 2024! goodreads.com/user/year_in_b…
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Christmas haul.
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Support from an unbiased daughter!
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It’s official. My next book - my third collection of stories - will be published in Autumn 2025 by Floodgate Press. It will be called ‘Afternoon Drinking’. Currently doing research for it down the pub. Thanks @FloodgatePress
Floodgate Press *subs CLOSED-*@FloodgatePress29 Nov 2024
What's next for Floodgate. floodgatepress.co.uk/whats-n…

What's next for Floodgate | Floodgate, publishers, Birmingham, England

What we'll be doing in the next 12 months

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AFTERNOON DRINKING - we’ll be publishing a new collection of short fiction from Brum-based writer and regular Floodgate contributor Alan Beard. Called Afternoon Drinking, you can expect the same raw, emotional, heartfelt prose that characterised Alan’s earlier collections.
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My copy has finally arrived! My 3rd appearance in this series, if you count the earlier iteration ‘Best Short Stories’ (ed Giles Gordon). (I was in the 1991 edition). If you’re looking for a Christmas present for a reader, this will do the trick! Full of great stuff.
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I’m joining Bluesky, but will remain on X for a bit. About time I left this horrific right wing propaganda platform, but will miss all my writer friends- perhaps I’ll catch up with them on Bluesky.
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Utterly delighted that our sophomore anthology Night Time Economy is one of the mighty @vocebooks’ Books of the Year. We could not have done it without them. Thanks!
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How lovely it was to hear the terrific @IrenosenOkojie talk about her latest novel Curandera tonight @vocebooks! Great interviewing by @tomconagh and just look at this cover. What a peach!
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@susie_dent6 Nov 2024
Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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'It's not every hurt you can see with your eyes'   From acclaimed author @KitdeWaal, comes an extraordinary novel about kindness, and its power to change lives.   Introducing #TheBestOfEverything Coming April 2025 and available to pre-order now 🔗linktr.ee/TheBestofEverythin…
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Also proud and delighted to have a piece in this fabulous collection of West Midlands based writing. Buy here: floodgatepress.co.uk/books
Alan Kane Fraser@TheWritingAlan2 Oct 2024
Proud & delighted to have a piece included in this stellar anthology from @FloodgatePress. By turns wise, witty irreverent and gritty, it’s also searingly honest about the realities of life ‘after hours’. Get your copy now from @vocebooks or direct from👇 floodgatepress.co.uk/books

Books | Floodgate, publishers, Birmingham, England

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There's trouble ahead I sang to myself, some advert I’d watched several years back in my past when I was with her, my darling, no, not her, my wife, someone before, in a chipped everywhere, ruffled everywhere flat that stank of us, the darling days before full adulthood
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We're in The Guardian, baby! ❤️‍🔥
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@GuardianBooks23 Sep 2024
Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries theguardian.com/books/2024/s…

Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham...

Launched by poet Liz Berry and novelist Catherine O’Flynn, pieces for each of the city’s 35 branch libraries speak against a ‘tidal wave of market forces’

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More birds and butterflies in 'Old'. More slippage and whirlage, more unfinding your steps, reversing, walking backwards into the kitchen like the lad in the Shining in the snow in the maze.
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