Susie Wild

About me:

"Of the three short films, Dim Smoking Girls was outstanding, a young filmmaker with considerable talent." IndyMedia, Beyond TV Festival 2007

"I am impressed by the sharp voice, witty and metaphorical turn of phrase and edgy atmospheres of this collection [of short fiction]... what characterful and colourful writing."

"This poet articulates her impressions and feelings in a wryly ironic tone of energetic repartee, a women's voice speaking in and out of the smoky, beery space of bars and nightclubs, where she encounters men and women off-duty and often bent on betraying themselves and others... The writer is adept with a taut, curt and short line, laconic and often barbed."

Dr Stevie Davies, Novelist.

"A talent for razor-sharp, satirical observation."

Nigel Jenkins, Poet

"A frank, well written and compelling memoir of a particular formative period in the writer's life...many of the darkest elements of the memoir are kept well beneath the surface, and skilfully expose that revealing all is often not the most effective means of 'writing the self', for this piece is far more haunting in its absences...and ends subtly and beautifully."

Fflur Dafydd, Novelist, Screenwriter, Pop Singer. Oxfam Emerging Writer of the Year 2009.

"one of whom is Susie Wild, and is a damned good writer, based on the thing that she wrote for Nu. So that’s nice."

- James Smythe, fellow Bright Young Thing at Parthian and general good guy.

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Arty ale drinker; amazing; arthouse movie goer
Bright, bookish butterfly (Bowie, Bolan boogier)
Creative, confuddled, compelling, caffeine-consumer
Distracting, ditzy, deep, dancing, duvet-thieving dreamer
Eccentric editor
Flare-wearing fairy type
Glittery gadabout gypsy
Happy-go-lucky hobo
Intriguing, impulsive, independent, idealistic
Jaywalker
Kitsch, kissable
Literary, lovely
Manic magazine maker
Nocturnal, nonsensical, note maker destined to be a notorious novelist
Optimistic oddbod
Poet, Pint-downing pub lover
Quirky, quixotic, quizzical quipper
Restless, retro, random, Romany
Sarcastic, sewing, sociable scribbler
Tactile tease
Unusual, unhinged, untidy
Versatile, vibrant, vegetarian
Wow! Witty, wise
Xstatic
Youthful, yearner
Zany Zzzzzz-catcher

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I write about music, arty things, wordsmiths, sex, drugs, yoof and homelessness and all sorts of other things for: Mslexia, Kruger, New Welsh Review, Planet, Venue (Bristol and Bath), The Big Issue Cymru, Metro, Swn Magazine, Big Times (The National Lottery), Buzz, BBC Wales, The Western Mail, TheSite.org (Editor of www.yourtentormine.org/), Oculus, UK Parliament, RedHanded, The Spark, Clash Magazine and ArtRocker.

I am an award-winning film maker with 2 MAs (Creative Writing at Swansea in 2008 and Journalism at Goldsmiths in 2001). My debut collection of short stories The Art of Contraception will be released by Parthian in 2010. One of my short stories 'Diving Lessons' is in the Parthian Anthology Nu: fiction and stuff out NOW in all good bookstores. We promoted the anthology at Hay Festival and Tyler and at the Big Read Event in Newport on October 28th 2009.

I perform poetry etc. regularly at The Crunch in Swansea and you can read my short story 'Pica' on The Raconteur website.

***THIS MONTH***

I am mostly writing and performing new poems... An interview with this here poet and some of her poems are in the next issue of Square Magazine (Cardiff). There are also some live bookings in the offing, more details coming shortly. You shall probably find me at Poetry on Tap in the Diff and The Crunch in Swansea. Message for details. In other news: Read my review of The Stoat in the current issue of Planet and my review of Ox's album in Buzz. I have written a fair few music features for Clash, an article about Absinthe for The Raconteur, plenty of titbits for Kruger and have some more UK Parliament educational things on the go. Busy busy.



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