Transmission is one of the most exciting and innovative literature magazines being printed in Manchester. Established as a not-for-profit venture, the creators of Transmission are dedicated to providing a high quality medium for aspiring writers and artists to display their talents. The publication combines original and varied writing with quality illustration and snappy design.
"A well-judged balance of fiction, interviews and articles reading it feels like it might do you a favour, not the other way round."
City Life
In Transmission #12, we’re returning to our old stomping ground of Manchester as we interview two of the city’s most exciting new novelists. Ray Robinson, familiar to regular readers as a regular contributor to Transmission, talks to us about his new novel, The Man Without. His follow-up to the award-winning Electricity tells the story of Antony, a young Mancunian dealing with a poor upbringing and humiliating secret. “The Man Without has its genesis in my early experiences of family life and rural poverty,” Ray tells Transmission. “I guess I’m exploring my own territory, and Antony’s story carries real importance for me, because he is who I almost became.”
We also talk to fellow Manchester novelist Joe Stretch about his debut novel Friction, a satire of the empty consumerist lives of a group of over-sexed twenty-somethings. He’s an angry young writer, whose novel pulls no punches in criticising his contemporaries. “I’m an emotional guy; mine are just sort of emotional screams, really,” Joe admits. “I’ve realised I don’t really give a shit about a lot of things people do, like decent description and pace and structure. I just sort of do it and walk away from it, like throwing crap at a wall.”
And hailing from just up the road in Preston, award-winning poet and novelist Michael Symmons Roberts writes about how he balances his literary double life between his chosen disciplines. “I didn’t want to write the kind of novel some reviewers expect from poets – rich in description and poor in page-turning storytelling,” he admits. “In an effort to avoid that trap, I wrote a kind of crime novel and a book of mainly non-narrative poems.”
In the mood to celebrate our return to Manchester, Transmission #12 features a selection of brand new short fiction about the festival experience (although they range from the joys of a night at the opera to the grubbier communion of the cockfight).
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