GARRIE FLETCHER is a working-class writer based In Birmingham. He writes short stories, scripts, shopping lists etc. and has been published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Unthank Books, Prole, MIR Online, Derwent Press, Mantle Lane Press and 3AM Magazine. Garrie co-founded Floodgate Press and is a regular at spoken word nights in Birmingham. He worked in SEND Education for 20 years and currently trains civil servants. He has created and delivered writing workshops for children and adults in various settings including prisons and mental health organisations and is still working on that first novel. He writes about the gaps between lives, the pauses between stations, the static hiss of the city and the thick knuckles of the earth.