Showcase
The Literary Consultancy is excited to be working on an innovative showcase for its writing talent, initially in association with Staple Magazine. See TLC Showcase Introduction for more on the inception of the Showcase and please see below for where it is now.
Once a month we will highlight the work of one author whose work we believe deserves a platform, whether simply because our readers felt it worth championing, or whether we have helped the writer on to commercial publication.
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Tim Franks Showcase
“The central heating had reached lethargy point. Jamie’s eyelids were already sliding into several second blinks and he knew a television-induced semi-coma was imminent if he surrendered. But he would never surrender. He hated this sluggishness and his answer was simple. He got off his arse.”
From ‘Days of Long Shadows – included in the showcase
Previous Showcase Authors
![James Brophy – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/James-Brophy-sq-300x300.jpg)
James Brophy
“He was still on top of the hill, the same hill, except there were no buildings any longer. He noticed that the ground was wet in places. The sun had
![Eliza Vitri Handayani – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Eliza-Vitri-Handayani-sq-300x300.jpg)
Eliza Vitri Handayani
“From Now On Everything Will Be Different tells the story of my generation. We grew up under the repressive New Order regime and learned to keep our mouth shut and
![Maggie Barrett – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Maggie-Barrett-sq-300x300.jpg)
Maggie Barrett
“Felicity sits at her desk, uncaps her pen, writes “Chapter 22’’ and stops. What is she trying to say? Not just now, in this minute, but altogether? What is this
![Jason Young – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Jason-Young-sq-300x300.jpg)
Jason Young
“Joanna Bromley’ is a follow-up to my feature film script titled ‘The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano’. Joanna was the mixed-race daughter of Olaudah Equiano (aka. Gustavus Vassa) in 19th
![Sharon Duggal – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Sharon-Duggal-sq-300x300.jpg)
Sharon Duggal
“Jimmy Noone drifted, alone in a cold subway, falling away with the day as it faded to shadow. He dreamt of balloons: sky-blue, bought by his father to mark his
![Paul Crooks – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Paul-Crooks-sq.jpg)
Paul Crooks
“I reach the St Johns Anglican church and as usual, all I can think about is death, especially when I catch sight of the stone wall and railings. I see
![Emma Cameron – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Emma-Cameron-sq-300x300.jpg)
Emma Cameron
“Catrìona walked along the path beside the kirk carrying a bunch of spring flowers, passing the ancient yew tree, grooved and twisted, as old as time. Lifting the latch she
![Vince Laws – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Vince-Laws-sq-300x300.jpg)
Vince Laws
“Poet John Faust is suicidal. His benefits have been stopped without warning, the bailiffs are due to evict him, his dog is in the vets dying, his car needs a
![Steve Sabella – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/steve-sabella-sq-300x300.jpg)
Steve Sabella
“Let me take you back to 1996, when I sat alone in the back corner of Abu Shanab restaurant, a bustling hangout in the Old City. I was only twenty.
![Carl El Khoury – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Carl-El-Khoury-sq-300x300.jpg)
Carl El Khoury
“It happened in flashes like a sequence of snapshots in a stop motion film because my mind blinked several times; blink — two hands on my chest shoving me to
![Pallavi Gopinath Aney – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Pallavi-Gopinath-Aney-sq-300x300.jpg)
Pallavi Gopinath Aney
“Every so often Mrs. Mehta dutifully waited to do her washing after Mrs. Chadha had finished hers and then emptied the frothy, soapy water in a happy whoosh over Mrs.
![Maggie Humm – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Maggie-Humm-sq-300x300.jpg)
Maggie Humm
“Plucking a glass of champagne from a passing waiter, Lily was desperate for a cigarette, but none of the ladies were smoking. “Can you see my painting?” “There it is,
![Christopher Owen – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Christopher-Owen-sq-300x300.jpg)
Christopher Owen
“None too bright in the head, that’s what they said of him, that’s what he thought they said, him standing there in the supermarket, on one foot and then the
![Pauline Walker – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Pauline-Walker-sq-300x300.jpg)
Pauline Walker
“Some things you can see coming, like when sunlight fades, dusk falls, darkness rushes to pervade. It’s inevitable. Like Enoch’s rivers of blood, staining London streets in ’81, ’85, 2011;
![Hafsah Bashir – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Hafsah-Bashir-sq-300x300.jpg)
Hafsah Aneela Bashir
“I will tell God everything The sharp metal pieces Taken out of my stomach Will all come with me” Extract from ‘The War Torn Child’ – included in the showcase
![Dr Luke Tarassenko – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Dr-Luke-Tarassenko-sq-300x300.jpg)
Luke Tarassenko
“I hate flying. I heaved my bag up into the luggage compartment and clambered into my seat. I had to tuck my legs in and half-stand up a couple of
![Nell Bryden – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Nell-Bryden-sq-300x300.jpg)
Nell Bryden
“The second time I saw Lori I fell in love with her eyebrows. Lovely dark little dancers, arching like caterpillars above her brown doe eyes. They bent into the worry
![Audrey Chin – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Audrey-Chin-sq.jpg)
Audrey Chin
“Girl ran down the stairs, out the front door and into the night. She ran between the pastel fronted houses whose flower plastered walls hid who knew what monsters, towards
![Finn Dervan – TLC Showcase author](https://literaryconsultancy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Finn-Dervan-sq-300x300.jpg)
Finn Dervan Showcase
“The curve of orange sun nudged the horizon and inched its way above the pea-green fields that quilted King’s County. Silhouetted against it, a young man crouched on a turn
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TLC Pen Factor Special – winner Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
“I open my eyes to see a Mexican wave of women dashing to their seats, each breathing a loud sigh of relief—except for Big Mama. She’s already slumped in her