Welcome to the website of Dinesh Allirajah
short story writer, jazz poet, performer, workshop leader, member of Black Arts Alliance.
This website contains booking details, project information and examples of work.
photo by Tim Power
Forthcoming appearances:
Reading in Bangor, August 29th - details to follow...
Bookings are being taken now for an Alhama Creative Holiday writing residential in July 2009. The week-long course is entitled Writing Fiction: the short story; it will run from Friday 3rd July in Alhama, Andalucia (half an hour from Granada); and the price of the course (inclusive of accommodation, airport transfers, certain meals and organised excursions, but exclusive of flights) starts at £550. Email Alizon Brunning for further details.
Now available:
The Book of Liverpool
A CITY IN SHORT FICTION
Ed. Maria Crossan & Eleanor ReesI
ntroduction by Eleanor Rees
ISBN 1-905583-09-5
EAN 978-1-905583-09-6
Featuring:
Beryl Bainbridge, Brian Patten, Clive Barker, Frank Cottrell Boyce,
Ramsey Campbell, Paul Farley, Margaret Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah, James
Friel, and Tracy Aston.
A baby blown out of an upstairs window by a WWII bomb lives to hear others tell the tale…
A woman embarks on a long-term obsession with a city landmark, abandoning her lover for the Liver…
A bricklayer working on the foundations of a never-built
cathedral becomes its evangelist, its full splendour soaring only in
his mind…
Bringing together fiction from some of the city’s most
celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours
that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Set
against key historical moments from the Second World War to the Capital
of Culture year, these stories question what ‘belonging’ and ‘home’
mean in the Liverpudlian context, from the regenerated city centre to
satellite suburbs, from the sparring cathedrals to the no-go concrete
housing estates. Liverpool emerges in these short stories as a city in
constant flux: haunted by ghosts, buoyed up by myths, and shifting with
an ebb and flow like the Mersey itself.
photo by Tim Power
For further details and to order a copy online, click here
"Dinesh Allirajah’s story, ‘A Different Sky’...deftly connects the
buying up of the city centre in the 90s with the first Gulf War." (Emma Unsworth, Liverpool.com article)
Liverpool Daily Post feature
A Manner Of Speaking
OUT NOW - click on photo for details
cover photograph by Rizwan Mirza
Maps and Metaphors: writings by young writers from Bangladesh and United Kingdom [British Council Bangladesh ISBN 984-32-3342-5]
'Out of Transformation' - Liverpool poetry in the 21st century essay by Peter Barry, in Writing Liverpool - essays and interviews (eds. Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones, Liverpool University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-84631-074-4) 
Available on-line
Readings of Dirty Feet On The Saint and Microdrama (both taken from A Manner of Speaking), recorded 19/10/05 at Cornerhouse, Manchester as part of series organised by Comma Press. Click here for audio.
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