The Atlantis Collective are launching their first book of short stories, Town of Fiction, as part of the Cuirt Literary festival in Galway on April 24th. The group are a collection of graduates from the MA in Creative Writing at NUI Galway.
The Town of Fiction is a great read – there are lots of different writing styles – and you’re guaranteed to be entertained, and have a laugh. The award for Best Start to an Excerpt has to be split between Dara O Foglu, who’s excerpt starts with the attention grabbing “I watch porn all the time. I didn’t tell Sheryl that though“; and Patricia Byrne’s “Murder can be daunting if, like me, you’ve no experience. The Internet is a great help nowadays…“, both of which I’m sure now have you curious, and will do no doubt bring in some odd things from the search engines.
To go with their new book, the group have a new website (I should probably add the disclaimer here, Ambient Age did the site) where you can read some excerpts taken from Town of Fiction. It also has a Reading Room to help get some of the Collective’s other writings out into the world.
I’ve known a couple of those involved for a long time, so, if you’re interested in a good read, you can buy the book online.
The Town of Fiction launch is in Massimo, Galway on April 24th – if you’re around, you should drop in. The Galway Independent also have a piece on them this week too.
