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David Hartley

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in Preston, The United Kingdom

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http://www.davidhartleywriter.com/

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Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror

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Ursula K. Le Guin | China Mieville | Hilary Mantel | Alan Garner | Sam ...more

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September 2013

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Writer, performer and researcher. PhD Creative Writing, The University of Manchester.

Writer-in-Residence Prima Vista Festival, Tartu, Estonia, May 2024 | Writer-in-Residence Västra Götaland, Sweden, Nov 2024 | Cohost of the Autism Through Cinema podcast 2021-2023

Instagram: @DHartleyWriter

Shortlisted: Bridport Prize 2020, Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2022, Saboteur Award 2016 & 2022

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	Fauna 4.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Dark Lane 10 by Tim Jeffreys (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Pope (Editor), Charles Wilkinson 3.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Threshold 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Incorcisms: Strange Short Stories 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Generative Author: Live Writing in Tartu

This May I returned, once again, to beloved Tartu for the fourth year in a row. This time I had the great pleasure of being part of the 'Opening the Black Box' exhibition, masterminded by fellow UK artists Francis Gene-Rowe and Erica Masserano. The exhibition explored themes of literary gaming in the context of causality, othering, and unbelonging, and it was all staged in the evocatively-named Ha Read more of this blog post »

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