We have had the pleasure of talking to Dan Malakin about his writing and his life. Read on to know what he had to say:
- Tell us a little about yourself. Hi Namrata, thanks for having me on your website. My name’s Dan Malakin, as you know, and I’m a writer living in London with my wife, daughter and Boddington the dog. I’m also one of the fiction editors
at The Forge literary magazine.
2. What prompted you to start writing?
I guess I’ve always been drawn to writing. Even as a kid I’d scribble stories down and hand them up to my confused mum, who wouldn’t be able to read my illegible handwriting. In my teens I wrote lots of terrible poems, and ran this photocopied magazine called Fluffy Dice, which had a readership of about ten people, most of whom probably never opened
the first page. It didn’t matter; I enjoyed the process.