Browsing:

Author: alison

A Curious Cartography in Review

“A brilliant collection of different types of unsettling stories from the past to the present with a host of lost souls about to find their lives changed forever. It reminds us that Littlewood is an incredibly skilled storyteller…” Read the Read more…


News about A Curious Cartography

The paperback of my short story collection, A CURIOUS CARTOGRAPHY, is coming in May 2024 and is available to pre-order now at Black Shuck Books. The limited edition signed hardback is now fully sold out. The twenty short stories in A Read more…


Mini Collection: The Flowering

The Flowering is a micro-collection, published as one of Black Shuck’s popular Shadows series. It features six short stories, all set in the Victorian era: The Zoetrope, The Marvellous Talking Machine, Meet Me at the Frost Fair, The Ballad Box, The Winter Read more…


Close to Midnight and a Best Of Pick

Two lovely bits of writing news! My story ‘In the Wabe’ has been selected for the upcoming Flame Tree Press anthology Close to Midnight, edited by Mark Morris. There’s a terrific line-up, so it’s lovely to be involved! It’s a Read more…


ParSec – and a Cottingley Cuckoo review

It’s lovely to see PS Publishing’s new ParSec magazine heading out into the world, with the ever-capable Ian Whates in the editor’s seat. There’s a terrific line-up of fiction between the covers, which I’m most looking forward to reading – Read more…


Midsummer Macabre

Join us at Midsummer Macabre for story readings by the authors! This video showcase features stories by me, Simon Clark, Paul Finch and host Joseph Freeman. My story is an abridged version of The July Girls, which was first published Read more…


Endangered Shorelines

There’s a really interesting analysis of my short story, The Headland of Black Rock, in this article – Endangered Shorelines and Absent Solastalgia In Recent English, Irish and Northern Irish Short Fiction. It’s by Katharina Andrea Kalthoff and LeonieWindt-Wetzel and Read more…


SoA Award Shortlisted

It’s an absolute honour to have been shortlisted for the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award, supported by the Society of Authors. The shortlisting is for my short story, Swanskin, which was published in the After Sundown anthology edited by Mark Morris. The full Read more…


Two top fives and one top three

I’ve recently been asked to write a couple of guest blog posts with a ‘Top five’ theme. Here they are . . . Five Dark Tales of the Good Folk – a round-up of some darkly mysterious fairy fiction at Read more…


14th April – Cuckoo Day!

So The Cottingley Cuckoo flew off into the wild on 14th April. And because Team Titan are very clever peeps, that wasn’t any old day – it was in fact St. Tiburtius Day, which is traditionally when the first cuckoo Read more…