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This site is a notebook, diary, testing ground and scrapheap for the works of author and poet Alex Aldred (that’s me). Here you’ll find updates on a variety of ongoing projects, links to publications elsewhere, and maybe even some new stories! Use the navigation bar at the top to get started.

News & Announcements

New Poems in Coffin Bell and In ParenthesesApril 17, 2020
Workshop Update 23/03/20March 23, 2020
Workshop Update 18/02/20February 18, 2020
Workshop Update 05/02/20February 5, 2020
Workshop Update 27/12/19December 27, 2019
Back in the Chair: New Short FictionDecember 20, 2019
Workshop Update 29/11/19November 29, 2019
Out Now: Cursed Objects & UsNovember 8, 2019

Writer’s Notes

Poetry Annotated: Six New PoemsApril 27, 2020
Tales from the Shipwreck (ii)March 8, 2020
Writer’s Notes: A NaNoWriMo AutopsyFebruary 28, 2020
Tales from the Shipwreck (i)February 15, 2020
Fiction Annotated: ExposureDecember 17, 2019
Reading List: NaNoWriMo 2019November 27, 2019
Poetry Annotated: Exam AcappellaOctober 18, 2019
Writer’s Notes: The Chwedyk ExperimentOctober 1, 2019

Personal

Isolation Inspiration: Online Poetry Exercises for LockdownMarch 27, 2020
#VSS365: Round Up (Oct ’19 – Feb ’20)March 12, 2020
One Hundred FailuresFebruary 11, 2020
2019 RetrospectiveDecember 31, 2019
The Big 100 Reading Challenge: Eight Years LaterNovember 7, 2019
NaNo AutoBio, or: A Chronicle of FailureNovember 6, 2019
#VSS365: Round Up (Aug/Sept 2019)October 11, 2019
#VSS365: Round Up (July 2019)August 4, 2019

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