In May 2022 David Gaffney was writer in residence for The Whale project, an interactive live theatre installation in Whitehaven Cumbria that gives us a strange real-but-imagined encounter with a …

David Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria and now lives in Manchester. David is a prose writer with a specialism in short stories, particularly micro-fiction, and has published widely and …

and you can listen to some stories, along with cheesy organ music, here

Sawn-off Tales is David’s first collection of micro fiction, published to rave reviews in 2006 by Salt. Running to no more than 150 words long, each of these surreal ultra-short stories is filled with …

What David Gaffney has done is to mobilise the wicked imagination that makes him a maestro of flash fiction to invent a classic British noir as the driving concept, and title, of a novel, Out Of The Dark.

David's piece is about Hell is a city, a film shot entirely in and around Manchester and Oldham in the 1960s, and he says he really enjoyed visiting the locations and exploring the impact of this under …

Les Malheureux is a unique collaboration between flash fiction writers David Gaffney, author of the critically acclaimed collections Sawn-off Tales, Aromabingo and The Half-life Of Songs plus the novel …

Re/Place is led by writers Nicholas Royle, Sarah-Clare Conlon, and David Gaffney, who specialise in commissioning new writing related to place, and staging live literature events.

'A twisted and darkly funny neo-noir that somehow channels the restless spirits of both David Lynch and Shane Meadows while remaining intensely literary. In Out of the Dark David Gaffney has produced a …

In his new collection of short stories David Gaffney explores the theme of town versus country through a number of different lenses, including his own experience of being brought up in west Cumbria then …