Published periodicals and collections, 1996-2003, containing material contributed by Niall Griffiths including short stories by him, poems by him, interviews with him, articles by him, extracts from his novels, reviews by him and letters by him, together with other material relating to his work.
The short stories by him include: ‘Scenes from an Aberystwyth bedsit’ (Chasing the Dragon 1998); ‘The best death ever’ (New Writing 2000 and Flux 2002); ‘Hangover from hell’ (The Idler 2001); ‘A mountain between them’ (The Big Issue Cymru 2001); ‘Merda’ and ‘MacIntosh’s dreams’ (red poets 2002 and 2003); ‘Snowstorm’ (The Big Issue Cymru 2002); ‘… Fran and the witch and me’ (Another Magazine 2003); and ‘Welshing’ (The Big Issue Cymru 2003).
The poems by him include: ‘Open all hours’, ‘Hackles’ and ‘Scabies’ (Roundy House [1999]); ‘Like some half-remembered nightmare’, ‘When stars hum like bad reception’ and ‘Liverpool necessity’ (Over Milk Wood 2000); and ‘Animals’ (Red Poets Society 2001).
The interviews with him appear in Adhoc (2001), Golwg (2001), Pavement (2002) and Byd y nofelydd (2003).
The articles by him cover subjects including Liverpool (Limb by Limb 2000), funding for writers in Wales (A470 2001), embarrassing moments in his life (Mortification: writers’ stories of their public shame 2003) and travel and homesickness (Red Handed 2003).
The extracts from his novels include Sheepshagger (The Howard Marks book of dope stories 2001) and Stump (New Welsh Review 2002).
The reviews by him discuss: Green voices: understanding contemporary nature poetry by Terry Gifford (English 1996); Cardiff cut by Lloyd Robson (Planet 2002); The man who walks by Alan Warner, Clubland by Kevin Sampson and Chemistry by Damien Wilkins (The Big Issue in the North May, June and September 2002); Offcomer by Jo Baker (Fortnight July/August 2002); and Deadwater by Sean Burke (Planet January 2003).
The correspondence includes his reply to criticism of Sheepshagger by Catherine Merriman (Planet 2001) and discussion of his article about funding for writers in Wales (A470 2001/2 and 2002).
Also included are a short profile of him in Croatian (zarez 2002) and references to him in an interview with Irvine Welsh (Fortnight June 2002) and in an article on Welsh writers by Tony Bianchi (Planet July 2003).