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Flight of the Blackbird, one of the stories from 29 Ways to Drown, will be featured in the special Christmas edition of LITRO. If you take the underground (and even if you don’t) please keep on eye out for it.
LITRO is a literary alternative to Metro, distributed at London underground stations and a variety of [...]

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29 Ways to Drown (Launch reading)
26.11.2007
Niki Aguirre’s debut collection of short stories, 29 Ways to Drown (lubin & kleyner) reveals a writer with an incredible range, humour and balance. Being the first female writer from Birkbeck’s highly regarded MA Creative Writing programme to have a book of fiction published, after Shaun Levin’s A Year of [...]

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I will be in at the Brooklyn Book Fair in September doing a reading for X-24 and possibly something from 29 Ways to Drown.
September 27, 2007
x-24 Anthology reading
with Niki Aguirre, Jennifer Kabat, Laila Lalami and Nii Parkes
California State University
Los Angeles, California

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The X24 launch took place last night at the Barbican Library. I met fellow anthology writers, heard some great stories and mingled over dinner and wine.
James Smith of theshortstory.org.uk wrote a good review of the launch. Read -> Glass eyes and slippery eels.

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The BBK Rebels, as my friend tagged us, performed the other night at the Poetry Cafe. Despite initial jitters, it was great fun and I enjoyed it. The voice of each writer was evident in the reading of their stories. What a great bunch! Looking forward to more.
Harriet Fisher
Harry Whitehead
Fran Merivale
Mary Louise Buxton
Nii Ayikwei [...]

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