Pam will be in conversation with Rebecca Fletcher they will be talking about Pam's new book Things With Teeth By Moonlight.
Things With Teeth by Moonlight is an illustrated multi-genre collection of flash, micro-fiction and short stories covering loss, revenge, affection, and spending too much time in cafes.
Human and other creatures in urban, forested, or post-apocalyptic settings address hunger or love, pain or comfort, as best they can while the night is chill. A Jewel in your hand, a pebble in your shoe. A low growl in the dark. Seventy-one tiny, disquieting, tales.
Pam's writing influences range from a childhood diet of Kipling and Thurber to 19th and 20th century novelists, metaphysical and medieval poetry, Y Mabinogion and the northern sagas, assorted authors not writing in English, and gothic/speculative fiction of all eras. Magic realism is her happy place. She works in literary/speculative fiction and lyric non-fiction, exploring fragility and imbalance.
Her interests include but are not restricted to the environment and issues of extinction and climate chaos, loneliness, memory, things that bite, permaculture, visual arts, costume and textiles, inner and outer space, the economics of the future, things that kiss, rewilding, social history, and indigenous knowledge.
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