Alan Beard’s stories have appeared in journals (eg London magazine, Malahat Review and Panurge), anthologies (eg Tell Tales 3, England Calling and Neonlit) on webzines (eg taint, pulp.net and vestal review) and on Radio 4. His collection Taking Doreen out of the Sky was published by Picador in 1999 and he edited Going the Distance, a collection of stories by Tindal Street writers, in 2003. His latest stories (2009) have been published in BuffaloCarp and Falling Star Magazine.