Radgepacket...
Tales from the inner cities.
Andy Rivers
Andy is an exiled Geordie currently working on his third novel while his first two, 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer' and 'Special', bounce around the desks of publishers and agents looking for a good home. Living in the south however, hasn't managed to shield him from the sheer misery of following Newcastle United as he still trails around the country being disappointed by them and writes regular columns on their (mis)fortunes in the North east based football magazine Players Inc. He thinks, given time, he could become a cult...we think he's not far off being one now.
The Invisible Man
Glenn Upsall
Glenn is a Dental Technician by day and a Screenwriter by night. He is also the Chairman of the ‘South Shields Writers’ Circle.’
He has had a couple of short Plays performed on stage, and been published in a couple of local Anthologies. His debut Script, Fat Of The Land, was runner-up in the Northern, Film & Media’s Writers’ Bursary Scheme 2007, and will be soiling the desks of Agents/Producers around the country very soon.
All he asks from his writing is a ‘hill top house,’ ’15 cars,’ and ‘his own star on Hollywood Boulevard’ – Hang on….That’s a Rockstar, isn’t it!!???
Darrell Irving
Darrell is yet another Geordie. He has recently finished his first novel 'On the March', which has been likened to 'Virgin Soldiers for the chemical generation' and in order to keep his spirits up whilst he is rejected in favour of whichever stupid twat wins Big Brother this year he wrote this short story. We like it - hope you do too.
The Nature of the Business
Jan Carr
Jan is a mum of four, wife of one and harassed community worker at the bottom of the country. In fact she’s getting on for as far South as you can get – nightmare! She’s also a wannabe writer of kids books, two thirds of the way through editing number one and sometime author of bits of fluff like the above.
Tangerine Tide
Kate Winser
Kate is a shockingly young thirty seven years of age and a struggling writer dreaming of recognition and the credit she deserves. She loves eating, reading, writing and drinking. In no particular order. One day she would love to win an Olympic Gold medal in an event yet to be established. She lives in Portsmouth and always has done, a place she loves and hates in equal measure. Above all, she hopes you enjoy her story.
A load of Rubbish
Anne Ayres
Anne was born in County Durham but has been slipping south ever since. She came to writing late. While waiting for an acupuncture appointment she picked up a flyer for a writing course and was hooked; She writes short stories and poetry and her work has appeared in “Digitally Organic”, “Shoogle Tide” and “Survival Guides” all published by Earlyworks Press.
In a Box
One Small Step
Cain Michaels
Cain is a teacher married to a gorgeous girl from the USA and has a teenage son. He has thus far written four children's novels and is working on the fifth, however, this is the first short story he has ever written. You never know, if you're nice to him he might write another one...
Life and Soul
Tom Arnold
Tom lives in Chester with a two year old puke machine and his wife - he works as a SAP Guru (it's an IT thing apparently - bet he couldn't bloody fix this!!) for a big Oil company. He mainly visits the zoo in his spare time and changes nappies. In the remaining 3 seconds left after the puke monster goes to bed - he writes and recently completed his fourth novel.
Life in Passing
Mark Hibberd
Mark is a forty year old single-parent who lives in The Midlands. He has been an employee of the Civil Service since 1992, before that he was educated at Coleg Harlech, N.Wales and is currently studying for two Degrees with the OU. (We imagine he fits his studying in when he's on strike..ho hum) he has just completed his first novel, 'Jeremy and the Summer of Stalking', from which 'Shopping' is extracted. He hopes that you enjoy it.
Shopping
Ragna Brent
Ragna Brent thinks it's a miracle that she manages to construct a sentence. As a wife and busy mum of six, in her early forties, and still coming to terms with being made a granddmother by her eldest daughter, she lives the majority of the time in chaos. When she's not writing, or reading, she can be found on Facebook networking, or struggling around the roundabouts in her hometown of Milton Keynes. She has never tried to milk a concrete cow.
Twelve
Mr. Mum
Rod Glenn
Rod is a published author who is currently working on his third novel - he will be appearing on our interview page very soon and there may well be some kind of competition in the offing (hint, hint). He used to be a personal bodyguard and is, frankly, fucking rock.
The Pit and the Pilot
Lorna Windham
Lorna is a teacher. She writes and performs. Her main claims to fame are that she came in the top 22 out of 2000 with her unpublished novel ‘Toby’s Secret’ in the Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction competition in 2008 and she recently won this years 'North Tyneside Short Story competition'. She can also eat three Shredded Wheat so stick that in your pipe and smoke it Botham.
The First Bite
Something I said?
No Escape
Will Diamond
Will is a regular visitor to these pages.....or is that the police station? This is a corker anyway.
The Grand National
The Girl Upstairs
John N Price
This is John's second story on the site (see competition winners for the first) and is adapted from his, as yet unpublished, novel. He is also the world champion at throwing eggs at fat politicians - well done John.
Freak Wave
A Bitter Frost
A Charitable Ending
Patrick Belshaw
Patrick is a struggling writer who is, at the moment, getting close to completing a Creative Writing PhD at Newcastle University. He is better known as the inspiration for the incredible Hulk - not because he's muscly or anything, he just wanders round in a ripped shirt.
The Sixteenth Floor
A Darker shade of Night
Barry Stone
Barry has had various bits of work produced on stage, on Radio Four and on the BBC. He's originally from Kent and he's brilliant at fixing cars. Therefore, if he ever moves into the gangster business, he will obviously be known as the 'The Facking Mechanic. Discuss.
The Event of the Nose
Paul Crowe
Paul Crowe. Born 1964. Discovered Jane Russell, Alan Hull, Ernest Hemingway, Alan Plater and Lager aged 15. never looked back.
Arthur Dooney tries again
Barrie Darke
Barrie has been writing for a good few years now. He's had some plays, long and short, performed in his locale and is currently working on a couple of BBC projects - one for the theatre, one for radio (we're talking a proper writer here kids - see how we look after you). He's had short stories published here and there and sends out a new novel every three years or so to agents. He has never been on Big Brother.
An Estate Idyll
Danny is a published author (he's been published a fucking lot actually...) who has kindly donated a previously unseen extract from one of his books 'The Burglar Diaries' to this crackpot little site. We aren't embarrassed to claim him as one of our favourite authors anyway but this act, as well as the interview he did for us has raised him from mere 'Canny good author him like' to 'All round good bloke and friend of Radgepacket'.
Impressed now aren't you.
William Diamond
William Diamond exists in every mind in the country. He is brash, loveable, untrustworthy and a bit of a pain the arse to be honest. He is your worst neighbour and your best mate. He likes all things wrong and excels at breaking the rules. But hey, he's a Gateshead lad so who fucking cares.
Darrell Irving
Story number two from Darrell (see further down the page) he's still unpublished and still deeply apathetic about it.
John Irvine
John is an old aged pensioner in New Zealand with delusions of immortal failure and a cynical view of life. He has a mole under his left arm, and a wife who hates pizza and tripe. He hopes to die painlessly one day without warning, and with a minimum of leakage.
Hark the Herald Angels sing
Cathy Edmunds
Bishop Auckland musician Catherine Edmunds recently re-invented herself as a novelist/poet and illustrator. Publications in 2008 include her solo poetry collection “wormwood, earth and honey” (Circaidy Gregory Press) and illustrations for Daniel Abelman’s “Allakazzam!” (Bewrite Books).
Jan Harris
Jan writes about USB gadgets and camera phones by day, and writes short stories and poems by night, so she spends most of her life shackled to a computer. Occasionally she ventures outside to observe the people who have a life. Her stories and poems have been published in various e-zines and anthologies.
Darrell Irving
Darrell is yet another Geordie. He has recently finished his first novel 'On the March', which has been likened to 'Virgin Soldiers for the chemical generation' and in order to keep his spirits up whilst he is rejected in favour of whichever stupid twat wins Big Brother this year he wrote this short story. We like it - hope you do too.
Polmont Docherty
Polmont, as you've all blatantly guessed by now is a pseudonym, we also worked out it was a definite nod in the direction of one of our heroes so that was cool. This piece of work is actually a play rather than a short story but we liked it so much that we decided to include it in the Radgepacket showcase. Basically this is because we do what we want and if you impress us then you're in.
Glenn Upsall
Glenn is a Dental Technician by day and a Screenwriter by night. He is also the Chairman of the ‘South Shields Writers’ Circle.’
He has had a couple of short Plays performed on stage, and been published in a couple of local Anthologies. His debut Script, Fat Of The Land, was runner-up in the Northern, Film & Media’s Writers’ Bursary Scheme 2007, and will be soiling the desks of Agents/Producers around the country very soon.
All he asks from his writing is a ‘hill top house,’ ’15 cars,’ and ‘his own star on Hollywood Boulevard’ – Hang on….That’s a Rockstar, isn’t it!!???