The Special Relationship
I co-founded and regularly perform at The Special Relationship. A literary variety night of short stories, films, poetry, illustration, journalism, the kitchen sink and comedy.Readings and Events in 2011
December 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 14 featured Evie Wyld, Jack Underwood and Tom Humberstone.
November 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 13 featured Gabriel Gbadamosi and Gavin Ingles.
October 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 12 featured Barry Walsh and Julian Fox.
September 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 11 featured John Butler and Mario Petrucci .
I performed at the 'Early Words' event as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
August 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 10 featured Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Sam Knight and Harry Venning.
I performed at the Latitude Festival in support of Stuart Ever's 'Ten Stories about Smoking'.
6th of July 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 9 featured Jonny Woo and Josie Long.
1st of June 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 8 featured Tim Key, Simon Crump and Aoife Mannix.
4th of May 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 7 featured Isy Suttie, David Miller, Guy Morgan and Sophie Cameron.
28th of April 2011: I performed at Brighton's Speaky Spokey.
22nd of February 2011: The Special Relationship: Episode 6 featured Matthew Robins, Joe Dunthorne and Simon Munnery.
Readings and Events in 2010
15th of December 2010: Sam Taradash and I perform one of our 'stories for two voices' at the Golden Hour in Edinburgh.
12th of December 2010: The Special Relationship: Episode 5 featured Five Dials editor Craig Taylor and poet Paul Birtill.
27th of October 2010: The Special Relationship: Episode 4 featured Prospect journalist Sam Knight, Guy Morgan and the Critic's Circle Award winning playwright Rebbecca Lenkiewicz.
16th of October 2010: Sam Taradash and I perform one of our 'stories for two voices' at Ready, Steady, Story at the Nursery Festival.
29th of September 2010: The Special Relationship: Episode 3 featured Tim Key, Melissa Mann and Matthew Robins.
21st of July 2010: The Special Relationship: Episode 2 featured Katy Wix, Tim Wells and Colin Grant in support of Granta's issue 111.
Review of the previous evening can be found in my article at Big Other.
5th of July 2010: Performed at Let Me Tell You About Me
9th of June 2010: Taken from Time Out London: "if.comedy Award-winners Tom Basden and The Invisible Dot have teamed up with American twins Jarred McGinnis and Sam Taradash for an evening of live literature and entertainment." Line up included Fergus Craig, Grant Gillespie and Toby Litt.
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25th of April 2010: Storytails at Pangea Project.
10th of April 2010: Our first The Show and Tell was held at the Scottish Poetry Library.
Event photos by Chris Scott.
February 2010: I appeared at yarnfest.
My reading of a flash fiction is currently on the Story Slam website.
Readings and Events in 2009
December 2009: Once again performing at Jonny Woo's storytelling night at The Book Club. Photos by Darrell Berry.
November 2009: Performing at Jonny Woo's storytelling night at The Book Club.
On the 17th of October I participated in the Lotos Collective's "Everyman" project.
On 20th of August, I read a story with two voices with Sam Taradesh at the London Literature Lounge at the Poetry Cafe.
August 2009: The Green Press's podcast presents my reading of "Today I Eat the World".
July 2009: Reading at the Respect Festival Storytelling tent
April 2009: I won the People's Choice Award at the Spread the Word Novel Pitch Competition.
Excepts from the novel can be found at Pissing on Dolphins.
Readings and Events in 2008
| September 2008: Reading at Litcamp | March 2008: Reading at Peter Webb's Book Launch | |
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also...
March 2008: Moderator for "Pixels vs. Paper" at the Guardian. Hosted by www.pulp.net
