Peter Wild

I aim to provoke and/or entertain with my writing, and am primarily interested in exploring those things we shouldn't say.

I write short stories, devise and edit anthologies and have written a novel, which is being serialised on the web. If I had to describe the novel in two words, I'd say it's dumb fun. I want to be read by as many people as humanly possible.

Biography

Peter Wild is the editor of The Flash (published by Social Disease), an anthology of flash fiction the profits from which go to Amnesty International, and Perverted by Language: Fiction inspired by The Fall (Serpent's Tail). His fiction has appeared in loads of magazines, on and offline (see below for titles). He lives in Manchester with his wife and three children and, right now, is busy writing a novel…

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Publications

The Empty Page: Fiction inspired by Sonic Youth : Editor (Serpent's Tail, 2008)

Perverted by Language: Fiction Inspired by The Fall : Editor (Serpent's Tail, 2007)

Magazines that Peter has appeared in:
Dogmatika, 3AM Magazine, Laura Hird, Scarecrow, Pindeldyboz, Paris Bitter Heart's Pit, Thieves Jargon, SN Review, NOO Journal, Word Riot, Straight From The Fridge, Pen Pusher, Static Movement, Lit Dispatch, Rumble, The Beat, Flash Flood, Six Sentences, Flash Forward, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Magazine of the Dead, Twisted Sister, Savage Manners, Meat, Mud Luscious, Swings & Roundabouts…

Reviews

The range of [Peter's] work is wide - in content, style and scope. Some pieces, like STONE ROSES are brief amusing vignettes or in the case of In HER STICK FIGURE smartly-written pieces of social commentary; while others, like PUNK ROCKER, are much longer, running into several pages. The majority of the pieces published on-line though are suitably short. Even THE PUNK ROCKER is broken up into very short chapters. This works really well on screen - these sharp little pieces deliver their message quickly and seem ideally suited to on-line reading.
Clare Dudman
Espionage: A Jigsaw in 500 Pieces - a sort of whimsical thriller - imagine a Jim Thompson novel adapted for the screen by Sam Peckinpah and then 'novelised' by legendary Beat author Richard Brautigan. It concerns a motley group of crooks, spies, intelligence types and drugged-up promiscuous young people descending on Manchester in pursuit of a mysterious brown paper package.
www.dogmatika.com

Personal Reflection

I like minimalism in my prose and love to read writers who deal fluently with the vacillations of the human heart, and writers who engage provocatively with contemporary society. The Other Side arose from my worst possible fear after my first child was born. I decided it was spell: if I put it down on paper the chance of it actually happening were a million to one.