I See Something, the first supernatural comedy from Uneasy Listening, will be available on all podcast platforms this Thursday. In I See Something, bride-to-be Donna seeks advice from seafront psychic Madame Jet, and gets an unwelcome visit from somebody from her past. Can it be fourth time lucky for this hapless bride? Uneasy Listening isContinue reading “Uneasy Listening – First Episode Coming Soon!”
Author Archives: SJ Bradley
Dead Letters: A Short Story
This short story appeared in my author newsletter in September 2024. You can read it on Mailchimp here, and sign up to my newsletter here We lived in the mailroom, moles with blunt nails and teeth. They taught almost every subject at the University and my supervisor,George, claimed to have learned most of it. CampusContinue reading “Dead Letters: A Short Story”
Brick Mother – now an ePub!
My first novel, Brick Mother, has been out of print for a long time. I’ve just created an ePub version that you can download from my ko-fi shop here. Brick Mother is a dramatic and emotive tale that peers into the lives of some of the most forgotten in our society. SJ Bradley manages toContinue reading “Brick Mother – now an ePub!”
The LS6 Living Museum
The LS6 Living Museum is a project I’ve been working on with the Hyde Park Picture House. As a longtime resident, I’ve always been fascinated with the social and living history of the area. The back to backs in the area were first built as a form of high density housing during the Victorian age,Continue reading “The LS6 Living Museum”
Tips From the Submissions Pile
Tips and Reflections from a Fiction Editor; What else is on this month; & Cambridge? Completed it, mate. Read all this and more here in my June mailout: https://us3.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/show?id=5400232
The Right to Culture & Creativity
Recent events have got me thinking a lot about ‘the right to culture’, and ‘the right to creativity’. Last year I took a PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing at Cambridge University, thanks to a bursary from First Story, and one of the things we talked about a lot was ‘What is creativity?’ and ‘Can creativityContinue reading “The Right to Culture & Creativity”
three lions on a shirt
In honour of the Lionesses historic win of the Women’s Euros, here’s an excerpt from my Work-in-Progress novel, A Patch Of Dirt. Set in Wakefield, the novel is my attempt at a small-town ‘state of the nation’ Brexit novel, taking place in a part of the UK that rarely gets documented. The context for thisContinue reading “three lions on a shirt”
We Don’t Want To Work, And Why Should We?
Here’s what I hate: going to work every day. And I’m not alone, it seems. Apparently thousands of people have recently quit their jobs or left the workforce forever, in what is being termed the ‘great resignation’. We shouldn’t really be surprised by this. Work is rubbish. Nobody likes going to work, that’s why weContinue reading “We Don’t Want To Work, And Why Should We?”
Urban Haiku
high rise concrete, twelve floor box:glimpses of central window –stairs lead to the stars SJ Bradley, 2022 During 2021/22 I’ve been at Cambridge University, taking a PGCert in Teaching Creative Writing, attending with a bursary from First Story charity. One of our assignments during the Spring term was to create a video introducing the haikuContinue reading “Urban Haiku”
Weak Heart
When I was a little girl I had a weak heart. A doctor discovered a murmur back when I was a fat legged baby. I hardly noticed, in those days, that mother and I were alone. She said he told her to keep me from strain – any type. Things I was not allowed toContinue reading “Weak Heart”
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