Comma Press Writers’ days are perfect opportunities for writers of all experience levels to experiment with new forms and meet new people!
Join us at Chorlton Library for a horror writing workshop led by author Andy Murray, followed by a panel discussion, readings and a Q&A where Andy will be joined by fellow horror authors Bronte Schiltz and Nicholas Royle.
This is the perfect chance to ask questions about writing or getting published. There will also be time for any book signings!
Tickets are free of charge but please RSVP so we know who’s coming! Email for more info.
Running Order
11.00am – 12.30pm workshop with Andy Murray
12.30pm – 13:30pm – Break for Lunch
13:30pm – 15:00pm Readings, Panel & Q&A with Andy Murray, Bronte Schiltz & Nicholas Royle
About the authors:
Andy Murray is a writer and journalist based in Manchester. He edited Comma’s first modern horror story anthology, Phobic, and has been leading online story courses for Comma since 2020. He’s written biographies of British television scriptwriters Nigel Kneale and (with Dr Mark Aldridge) Russell T Davies and was formerly the programmer of the Darkness Over Britain strand celebrating British film and TV horror at Manchester’s Cornerhouse arts centre. He now contributes to the webzine Northern Soul, provides editorial content for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s production programmes and teaches Film Journalism at the University of Salford.
Brontë Schiltz is a journalist with The Big Issue and Big Issue North, a freelance contributor to Horrified Magazine, and a PhD candidate with the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she researches the Televisual Gothic (horror on and about TV). She is a writer of short stories, flash fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and theatre, and her work has featured in publications including Lotus Eater Magazine, Olney Magazine, The First Line and Hungry Ghost Magazine. She has also appeared on podcasts including The Ghost Story Book Club, Victorian Legacies, BERGCAST and Chronicles of the Quarter Life.
Nicholas Royle is the author of six short story collections – Mortality, Ornithology, The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories, London Gothic and Manchester Uncanny – and seven novels, most recently First Novel. He has edited more than two dozen anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories for Salt, who also published his books-about-books, White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector and Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf. In 2009 he founded Nightjar Press, which continues to publish original short stories in the form of limited-edition chapbooks. Forthcoming is another short story collection, Paris Fantastique.
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