Alan Beard

Affairs, drink, unemployment, drugs. Damaged houses. Low wages. Single mothers. A wrecked car up on bricks. Yes, it’s an Alan Beard story.

@ElephantsRule Think I have now… can you check?

@ElephantsRule Trying to, but not good at tech stuff. Can you try?

🗣️ ALAN BEARD: AFTERNOON DRINKING 🎤 in conversation with WENDY ERSKINE 📚 published by FLOODGATE PRESS 🗓️ THURSDAY 6TH NOVEMBER 2025 📸 PERI CIMEN

@ElephantsRule @vocebooks @FloodgatePress Shahida! I’m good, how are you and Anthony? Been a while (think last time was London after the first anti-Trump protest - 2018?) Be good to catch up. I’m not really on X now, migrated to Blue Sky - are you on there?

@vocebooks @AlanBeard4 @FloodgatePress Hi Alan, how are you? Congrats! Shahida

See this Instagram post by @vocebooks instagram.com/p/DRPszBxDJ94/…

I’ve stopped posting on X for obvious reasons, but allow me to be a hypocrite and promote my forthcoming book of stories ‘Afternoon Drinking’ launched on Nov 6th. A long way off, but you can buy tickets now! (Link in comments if I can work out how to paste)…

I am also reading!

@nicholasroyle @SkoobBooks @TheLondonMag Yes, me also. Thanks.

@AlanBeard4 @SkoobBooks @TheLondonMag Of course Al. I saw it there before I saw this. I’m mainly in the other place these days.

In @SkoobBooks world’s first sight of excellent short story collection Taking Doreen Out of the Sky by @AlanBeard4 is appearance of title story in Nov 85 @TheLondonMag

Check out #GoodreadsYearinBooks @goodreads to discover the 73 books I read in 2024! goodreads.com/user/year_in_b…

Christmas haul.

@LMariHarris @trampset I’m there too.

Just joined that other place. Same handle @lmariharris. Feel free to comment so I can follow you back if you're also on there. If this goes well, I'll probably add the @trampset account to that blue space as well!

@LukeKennard Can’t wait to read.

Support from an unbiased daughter!

@writemeave @FloodgatePress Thank you, Maeve!

@AlanBeard4 @FloodgatePress Congratulations @AlanBeard4 !

It’s official. My next book - my third collection of stories - will be published in Autumn 2025 by Floodgate Press. It will be called ‘Afternoon Drinking’. Currently doing research for it down the pub. Thanks @FloodgatePress

@TheWritingAlan @FloodgatePress Thank you, Alan.

@AlanBeard4 @FloodgatePress That’s fantastic news, Alan. Well done. I look forward to reading it.

AFTERNOON DRINKING - we’ll be publishing a new collection of short fiction from Brum-based writer and regular Floodgate contributor Alan Beard. Called Afternoon Drinking, you can expect the same raw, emotional, heartfelt prose that characterised Alan’s earlier collections.

@CharcoPress Great book.

We can finally share some BIG news: DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz is being made into a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson, directed by Lynne Ramsay, and set to be produced by Martin Scorsese! 🤯🤯🤯 AND we even have one of the first images from the film: