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Diary of a Writers' Festival:
Unnatural speakers and poorly framed questions
 • Hamish Kavanagh
Sometimes (a short story)
Sometimes I go down to the train station just to pretend.
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Are you half as literate as you think you are?
Last year Cultural Capital put out an article titled The Dawn of the Post Literate Society.
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War Stories (a short story)
2026 “That’s where he stood.” Dad shapes his fingers into a pistol and points them at a set of shoe prints moulded into the footpath.
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Unity (short story)
The Sudden Walk is a reader-supported publication.
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Sedations: Fleeing from the Manosphere
A reading from my short story collection: Hallucinations
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My Recent Reading Diet Part Three
Wherein I dissect books I've read recently and reflect on their interaction with my life and writing style.
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The Sudden Walk
The Sudden Walk
Welcome to the Sudden Walk. Here you'll find: Fiction that's hallucinatory yet grounded in realism. Think Irvine Walsh meets Joseph Conrad. Non-fiction posts documenting the road to getting published in real time. No guarantees, no safety nets. Enjoy
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