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Fiction: Season One

Fiction: Season Two

Bite sized method

Road to Publication

Fiction: Season Three

Recent Reading Diet

(Milestone) Hallucinations is available for purchase.

Buy my debut short story collection below

Nov 10, 2025 • Hamish Kavanagh

My Literary Wine List

A Glossary of all my original fiction.

May 23, 2025 • Hamish Kavanagh

Welcome to the Sudden Walk

For those who already subscribe, this won't be news to you. But I just wanted to set up a welcome page for people visiting my Substack for the first…

Oct 4, 2023 • Hamish Kavanagh

Most Popular

The Best of Us (a short story)

Dec 18, 2025 • Hamish Kavanagh

Erasing George (A short story)

Sep 25, 2025 • Hamish Kavanagh

Crossing the Bridge (a short story)

Jan 21 • Hamish Kavanagh

TIF Summit: Live with Hamish Kavanagh

Jan 18 • Hamish Kavanagh

I got a story published + Novel update (November)

Nov 12, 2024 • Hamish Kavanagh

Looking back and looking ahead

Jan 7 • Hamish Kavanagh

Diary of a Writers' Festival:

Unnatural speakers and poorly framed questions

Jun 10 • Hamish Kavanagh

Sometimes (a short story)

Sometimes I go down to the train station just to pretend.

May 27 • Hamish Kavanagh

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.

May 13 • Hamish Kavanagh

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.

Apr 29 • Hamish Kavanagh

Unity (short story)

The Sudden Walk is a reader-supported publication.

Apr 15 • Hamish Kavanagh

Sedations: Fleeing from the Manosphere

A reading from my short story collection: Hallucinations

Mar 27 • Hamish Kavanagh

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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.

Mar 10 • Hamish Kavanagh

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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