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Small Wonders is Pretty Ace

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Gotta say I’m a fan of the old flash fiction, and I loves me some of that prose poetry too, even if it’s sometimes hard to tell the difference between them. So it was kinda excitement to hear that I…

Newstead Short Story Tattoo 2011

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Newstead’s premier biennial literary event returns this May with a cavalcade, a cornucopia, a veritable concupiscence of practitioners of the short form descending upon the unprepossessing hamlet between 13 and 15 May 2011. It’ll be a pretty chockers weekend, with…

How do you actually spell “ebook”, anyway?

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Is it hyphenated or intercapped or all-one-word-lower-case or what? Anyway I’ve got one. An ebook. I used the delightful expertise of the folks over at smashwords to render Heroes and Civilians, my creative commons free-to-download short story collection, into formats…

Tagged with: ebooks, heroes and civlians, short stories, smashwords
Posted in Heroes and Civilians, Published work, short stories

Published: A Billion Tiny Lights

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Adam Ford — 2 Comments ↓

I’ve got a story in the latest issue of Aurealis, which also happens to be that magazine’s 20th anniversary edition as you’ll note from the stylish cover detail above.This is very exciting for me, for a couple of reasons. Aurealis…

New book: Heroes and Civilians

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Adam Ford — 2 Comments ↓

Heroes and Civilians is a new collection of my short stories and short-short stories that I’ve just put together. Well, to be honest I’ve been stuffing about with it for almost a year, but I’m finally ready to put the…

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From the vaults: She Called Up Her Mind’s Fire and Watched Him Burn.

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Sylf died. The miraculous power of the forest of healing herbs couldn’t save him. That’s how it goes sometimes. Kazanda would miss him. She’d come to look forward to their encounters. Every couple of months he’d turn up, catch her…

Tagged with: comics, grief, kazanda, pyrokinesis, short stories, sylf
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Josephine Rowe & the Newstead Short Story Tattoo (and me)

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Adam Ford — Leave a comment ↓

Neil Boyack is one of those writer types who’s done the move from Melbourne to this part of the world – like me, I guess – and he’s all about the artistic contribution to his adopted community and stuff. He…

Tagged with: josephine rowe, neil boyack, newstead, tattoos
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Friday Night Video: Vale Bud Tingwell

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Adam Ford — 3 Comments ↓

more about “The Battle of Clarendon St“, posted with vodpod Bud Tingwell died today. I met him, once, very briefly, when he recorded the voiceover for the above. When I pitched the idea to Bud’s agent, I told her that…

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