Charlie Hill. Writer.

Chat about Stuff: http://www.cinnamonpress.com/index.php/blog/entry/the-origins-of-stuff

This piece was first published in The Short Story in 2016   A short story writer should be interested in everything. Susan Sontag said that, or something like it. But everything about everyone? Perhaps not. In 1999 I wrote my first short story and submitted it to a new publisher called Tindal Street Press, an …

Interview with Litro: http://www.litro.co.uk/2014/01/writing-the-funny-pages-an-interview-with-charlie-hill/

Following his treatise on over-priced veg published in these pages to mark his debut novel, for his second novel, Books, we have another short story from Charlie Hill, pushing limits both for subject matter and for the reader. The clue’s in the title, this is not for the squeamish…

Interview on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03hn1m5

I’ve never really worried about class. When the historian EP Thompson wrote of class as a “very loosely defined body of people who share the same congeries of interests, social experiences, traditions and value-system, who have a disposition… to define themselves in their actions and in their consciousness in relation to other groups of people …

Interview with Neon: http://neonmagazine.co.uk/?p=2716

What follows, oh oft-assailed and much-beleaguered reader, is A Manifesto. It is not a revolutionary tract however, still less a reactionary one. Indeed, although it fulminates against 1, 2 and, yes, 3 to proclaim instead the virtues of A, B and, yes, C, it is more Business Plan than Blast. The Question with which it …

Reflecting on a recent visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and his life as an eco-activist, Charlie Hill argues that radical ecology needs to reach out to a new audience. It was the election campaign that never was. Driven by the need to stimulate growth and inspire a suggestible electorate, the leaders of the …