File 26 - Published contributions to periodicals and collections

Published periodicals and collections, 2007-2009, containing material contributed by Niall Griffiths including short stories by him, interviews with him, articles by him and reviews by him, together with other material relating to his work.

The short stories by him include:
‘Stigmata’ (Blue Tattoo 2007 and back to the machine gun [c.2007]); ‘Bingo master’s break out’ (Perverted by language: fiction inspired by The Fall 2007); ‘Bathyspheres’ (Sea stories 2007); ‘Postcard from some city somewhere’ (The Flash 2007); ‘Coming of age’ (Vice [2007]); ‘Like there’s no tomorrow: public sex in a parallel word’ (Arena [c.2007]); ‘A break in the journey’ (The Big Issue Cymru 2008); and ‘The beautiful game’ (New Welsh Review 2008).

The interviews with him appear in Time Out London (2007) and Bad Format (2009).

The articles by him cover subjects including the relationship between Wales and England (New Statesman 2007), the relationship between Liverpool and Manchester (CFUK 2007), football derby day in Liverpool (Red Handed Winter 2007), racism in a Devon pub (Red Handed Spring 2007), a trip to Transylvania (Red Handed Summer 2007), his return to Australia (Red Handed Autumn 2007), adopting a feral cat (Red Handed Winter 2008), queuing at Birmingham airport (Red Handed Spring 2008), insomnia in Bombay (Red Handed Summer 2008), the state of British society (Red Handed Autumn 2008), a visit to Ireland (Blown 2009), an encounter with a lioness (In the Red 2009), hippies (Red Handed Winter 2009), emerging from winter (Red Handed Spring 2009), a trip to Scotland (Red Handed Summer 2009), Chicago (Red Handed Autumn 2009), and the grave of Dylan Thomas (The Raconteur 2009).

The reviews by him discuss: Collected poems and Collected film poetry by Tony Harrison (Poetry Review 2007); The little prince by Oscar Wilde (The Big Issue Cymru 2007); Going under by Ray French (Blue Tattoo 2008); and Submarine by Joe Dunthorne (New Welsh Review Summer 2009).

Also included are an afterword by him (One moonlit night 2009), a review of Real Aberystwyth (New Welsh Review Spring 2009) and an article by Tyler Keevil about the same book (Blue Tattoo 2009).