IMAGE: EMMA FARRER
IN THE OFFING
2 June 2012 - 8pm
Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester
Performance as part of the 24 Arty People project.
8 June 2012 - 3.30pm
Manchester Book Market, St Ann's Square, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon will be reading as part of the Comma Press line-up.
8 June 2012 - 6.30pm
Blackwell, Oxford Road, Manchester
The Manchester launch of the Jawbreakers anthology.
9 June 2012 - 5.10pm
Manchester Book Market, St Ann's Square, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney will be performing as Les Malheureux.
29 September 2012
Brewery Arts Centre, Highgate, Kendal
Les Malheureux hit Cumbria with an extended set including stories by both Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney.
19 October 2012 - 8.30pm - TBC
Shangri La!
The Carlton Club, Bury New Road, Prestwich
Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney will be performing as Les Malheureux.
BEEN & GONE
27 May 2012 - 7pm
Chorlton Arts Festival
The Beech, Beech Road, Chorlton
I read two award-winning poems I wrote when I was 12 at this Bad Language special "night of teenage love poetry, diaries and everything cringeworthy".
29 May 2012 - 9pm
Tether
Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham
Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney performed as Les Malheureux.
23 May 2012 - 8pm
Chorlton Arts Festival
The Beech, Beech Road, Chorlton
The FlashTag writers ran a glittering event and Sarah-Clare read her story from the Jawbreakers anthology.
19 May 2012
Tago>Mago
Lass O'Gowrie, Charles Street, Manchester
Les Malheureux supported the wonderful Monkeys In Love for a second time at a new regular night organised by Valentine Records. Sarah-Clare read while David got his organ out.
17 May 2012
Prestwich Book Festival
The Church Inn, Church Lane, Prestwich
I treated my old local to eight short-short stories. Not all of them were smutty.
16 May 2012
National Flash-Fiction Day
The FlashTag writers flashmobbed Manchester with flash fiction. SCC read in various venues including Cornerhouse, Royal Exchange Theatre and Waterstones Deansgate. There's a write-up in the MEN here and an interview with me in City Life here and on YouTube here. You can hear me reading some of my stories here and here and here.
6 May 2012
Sounds From The Other City Festival
The New Oxford, Bexley Square, Salford
Les Malheureux played their fourth gig to a packed house, with a new extended set including stories by both Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney. Onward, Manchester called it "thoroughly funny" - read the full review here.
25 April 2012
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare read If You Can't See My Mirrors, I Can't See You, to be published shortly in Ferment literary magazine. Poet Andrew McMillan was headline act.
2 April 2012
The Story Forum
Gregson Arts Centre, 33 Moorgate, Moor Lane, Lancaster
The furthest north SCC has ventured with her smut so far.
29 March 2012
Word Soup
The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston
Sarah-Clare Conlon took her smut to Lancashire, on the bill alongside fellow FlashTag writers Dave Hartley, Benjamin Judge and Fat Roland.
28 March 2012
Not The Oxford Literary Festival
Albion Beatnik, Walton Street, Oxford
Sarah-Clare Conlon purveyed her fine flash fiction in a Poets vs Proseurs duel, while she and David Gaffney also treated Oxford to a taster of their act Les Malheureux.
29 February 2012
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon performed three short short stories - Broken Biscuits, Everyone Has A Favourite Spot and Coxes Apple's. Headline act was the rather wonderful Peter Wild, reading from his novel The Passenger.
28 February 2012
Say Something: Unrelated Incidents
Sandbar, Grosvenor Street, Manchester
For this special event, Sarah-Clare Conlon read flash fiction inspired by the theme of television: If You Can't See My Mirrors I Can't See You, published soon with Ferment literary magazine, and Everyone Has A Favourite Spot.
17 February 2012
Monkeys In Love
TV 21 bar, Thomas Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon read more of David Gaffney's flash fiction to his musical accompaniment. Manchester Music called it "brilliant", which is rather nice. Read the rest of the review here.
26 January 2012
Word Soup
The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston
Open mic plus headline act Jo Bell. Sarah-Clare Conlon read flash fictions Poster Girl, on Rainy City Stories, and Dress-down Friday, just republished, with Flash365.
25 January 2012
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic plus Rodge Glass and Socrates Adams. Sarah-Clare Conlon read some newly published stories about self-destructing relationships: Dirty Books (on Games Perverts Play) and The Moths (in the latest issue of Duality).
23 January 2012
The New Libertines
Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks, Oldham Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon peddled five filthy flash fictions as part of a bill also featuring award-winning author Elizabeth Baines, Not The Booker winner Michael Stewart and Literary Death Match winner Dan Holloway.
8 December 2011
Say Something
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic spoken word night. Sarah-Clare Conlon read three new pieces of flash fiction: Coxy's Apple's [sic], Dirty Books and Soap & Water.
30 November 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon read four pieces of flash fiction by headliner David Gaffney, who accompanied her on the organ. They are available for weddings and funerals. You can read two of the stories, Eat Less Pastry and Inches From What You Want, on David's website here.
24 November 2011
The University of Bolton Literature Live readings
Restaurant, Eagle Campus, Bolton
Sarah-Clare Conlon read 10 or so pieces of flash fiction, old and new, at an evening also featuring poet Steven Blyth. The pair also took part in a Q&A session with the audience.
26 October 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest star author Emma Jane Unsworth. Sarah-Clare Conlon read the new short story Working From Home.
19 October 2011
Manchester Blog Awards
The Deaf Institute, Grosvenor Street, Manchester
Sixth annual awards ceremony, part of Manchester Literature Festival, with guest performance by author Socrates Adams. Sarah-Clare Conlon read Solid Foundations Are Of Paramount Importance, a story from Best Writing On A Blog nominee 330 Words.
28 September 2011
FlashTag Smut Night, Didsbury Arts Festival
Northern Lawn Tennis Club, Palatine Road, Manchester
Anthology launch with readings from contributing writers and a guest performance by flash fiction author and novelist David Gaffney. Part of Didsbury Arts Festival.
Sarah-Clare Conlon read her smutty story Susie Loved Words, published in the new anthology of filthy flash fiction, Quickies: Short Stories For Adults.
25 September 2011
Bad Shoes Festival
Electrik, Wilbraham Road, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon and the other FlashTag writers performed at this one-day interactive arts festival. Clare wrote a story, An Unsuitable Pair, about bad shoes and bad men especially for the occasion.
7 September 2011
Flash Language Literary Quiz
Barcelona, Tib Street/Hilton Street, Manchester
Due to popular demand, Bad Language and FlashTagMcr ran a second of their famous bookish pub quizzes of the highest quality.
31 August 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest star Max Wallis, poet. Sarah-Clare Conlon read a piece of flash fiction called Her Fancier Man, which is on 330 Words, and Tu, Vous, You, a short piece about a Francophile.
28 July 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest star horror author Tom Fletcher. Sarah-Clare Conlon read not one but three stories: Bird Strike, a new piece for 330 Words, bookended by two tiny tales of titillation, each 69 words long (obviously a totally arbitrary figure...).
17 July 2011
Oxfam Bookfest
Apotheca, Thomas Street, Manchester
Another Flash Mob pop-up literary salon, part of a spoken word and poetry showcase hosted by Bad Language. Sarah-Clare Conlon read a new saucy short story, Her Majesty's Pleasure.
14 July 2011
The Reading: A Multiple Writers' Residency
Untitled Gallery, Mount Street, Manchester
Sarah-Clare Conlon was one of 72 writers collaborating on a real-time continuous work streamed live to Cornerhouse, Manchester Art Gallery, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cube, Castlefield Gallery, John Rylands Library etc during Not Part Of, the fringe to Manchester International Festival. You can read the results here and a story which developed out of the exercise, Microfiche, was published by Paraxis.
6 July 2011
Flash Language Literary Quiz
Barcelona, Tib Street/Hilton Street, Manchester
During Not Part Of, the fringe to Manchester International Festival, the Flash Mob gang and Bad Language joined forces to ask questions about books and hand out some really bad novels as prizes.
29 June 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with special guest star and short story writer Stuart Maconie. Sarah-Clare Conlon read a new piece of flash fiction called Names Have Been Changed, about sex and stationery. This appears in Spilt Milk Magazine.
26 May 2011
Flash Mob Pop-up Literary Salon, Chorlton Arts Festival
Dulcimer, Wilbraham Road, Manchester
Flash Mob writing competition glittering awards ceremony and shindig, featuring guest performance from flash fiction author Nik Perring. Sarah-Clare Conlon compered and read a newer slightly abridged version of I See Electric. An even shorter version is published with Spilling Ink Review.
27 April 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest performance by poet Rod Tame. Sarah-Clare Conlon read a short story called I See Electric, described by "flash fiction grandmaster" David Gaffney as: "a bit kind of Videodrome-like... the sort of thing I sometimes come up with". Aw, shucks.
24 March 2011
Flash Mob Pop-up Literary Salon, Twestival
NoHo, Stevenson Square, Manchester
Global festival raising money for good causes via social media. Sarah-Clare Conlon performed the première of a unique multi-platform Twitter story, written by Tom Mason especially for the night's pop-up literary salon.
23 March 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest Gerry Potter Poet. Sarah-Clare Conlon read Poster Girl, a 300-word story about going mad in the Northern Quarter, which is published on Rainy City Stories.
23 February 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest performance from poet Jo Bell. Sarah-Clare Conlon read Dress-down Friday, a short tale with an ambiguous ending, which is published on The Pygmy Giant.
26 January 2011
Bad Language
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Open mic with guest slot by flash fiction writer and novelist David Gaffney. Sarah-Clare Conlon read White Rabbits, an abridged version of which is published on 330 Words.
27 November 2010
Unannounced
Waterstone’s, Deansgate, Manchester
Open mic night of poetry, fiction and music. Sarah-Clare Conlon read Hope, published on 330 Words.
24 November 2010
Bad Language presents: Scattered Reds
The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester
Anthology launch and open mic. Sarah-Clare Conlon read Glasshouses, published on Roy Keane's Lucky Scarf.
20 October 2010
Manchester Blog Awards
The Deaf Institute, Grosvenor Street, Manchester
Fifth annual awards ceremony celebrating Manchester's blogging finest with guest performance by author Chris Killen. Sarah-Clare Conlon read An Accident Waiting To Happen, published on Best New Blog winner 330 Words.
