Literary collaborations produce mixed results: from the interesting (but dated) The Inheritors (Joseph Conrad & Ford Madox Ford), to the mediocre And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Jack Kerouac & William Burroughs), to the god-awful Yeats is Dead!. Thankfully, Beat the Dust’s What’s so special about Kansas? is a treat:
To celebrate one year on the underground lit scene, we have a special edition of BTD this month. We brought together ten of the leading lights from the Brit Lit scene for a Literary Jam session to see what impact team-working and improvisation would have on the creative writing process.
The writers who took part were Brutalists Tony O’Neill and Ben Myers and various members of the OffBeat Generation - Lee Rourke, Paul Ewen, Chris Killen, Steve Finbow, Darran Anderson, Jenn Ashworth, Matthew Coleman and Paul Kavanagh.
The short story we’ve created - WHAT’S SO SPECIAL ABOUT KANSAS? - has now been posted along with specially commissioned mock obituaries and author pics … We were aiming for extreme creativity and the odd spark of genius from this seat of the pants approach to writing. Did we achieve it? You decide…
Happy birthday BTD.
First posted: Friday, October 3rd, 2008.
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