"Alison is a passionate advocate, a connector of ideas, people and activities and someone who genuinely cares about the ecology of the literary arts."
Chris Gribble (Chief Executive of The Forum Trust)
A short story The Man Who Types by A.T. Boyle was included in a new anthology published at the end of 2024 by Hachette India.
The book was recognised in November 2025 media awards…
Awards jury announcementYou can find a digital copy here
HELL HATH NO FURY features writers based in the UK, India, Italy and North America including Irenosen Okojie (Dialogue and HarperCollins) Robin McLean (And Other Stories), Catherine McNamara (short story journals) and Anukrti Upadhyay (HarperCollins).
Editor Shinie Antony gathered the thirteen writers and Hachette published the book in India. It was launched in Bengaluru in the south of India.
Shinie Antony
Eight of A.T. Boyle’s short stories about Lancashire in northern England appear in the first exObjects anthology 2024 alongside Vikram Sampath, Ramona Sen, Jerry Pinto, Sauma Afreen, Gajra Kottary, Belinda RushJansen, Devasiachan Benny, Shashi Deshpande, Shinie Antony, Jaishree Misra and Vikram Sampath.
Full-colour images inside the exObjects bookFull-colour images inside the exObjects bookAuthor Shashi DeshpandeAuthor Vikram SampathAuthor and co-editor (with A.T. Boyle) Shinie Antony
A.T. Boyle wrote a fiction story set in Istanbul that was shortlisted in the international Mslexia awards.
The published story morphed into a performance script and multimedia performance at the Bluecoat arts centre and a perambulation through a Liverpool shopping area with an audience of over 8,000 people.
Liverpool Hope drama students in the stage version of The Typing Man and the Turkish Woman written by A.T. Boyle
"There’s a small but powerful story hidden in The Typing Man - the woman’s story that lies within. There is also the story of the relationship between Fıstıkçı and The Typing Man. This story has impressed me. Alison has greatly captured the city, the spirits of the city, surrounded by hustle and bustle."
A.T. Boyle and the cast of the multimedia version of The Typing Man plan its showcase at the Bluecoat in Liverpool, England
"She has reflected the rhyme of the city like an Istanbulli, a place where she truly belongs. The mood of the city is nicely written. It’s a moving saddening love story filled with lively characters from around Istanbul. The writer narrates the story so well that it inspires the reader’s curiosity." Jale Sancak
You can buy a digital copy of The Typing Man story and writing tools and inspirations here
Jale Sancak is President of the Istanbul Galatapera Culture and Arts Foundation. She writes and performs with Kara Kutu Tiyatro and has received the Haldun 2001 Taner short story prize, the 2014 Duygu Asena novel award, and the 2018 Attila Ilhan novel prize.
Click here for more about The Typing Man and the Turkish Woman drama. This was an adaptation of the dual language short story by A.T. Boyle staged at the Bluecoat and L1 shopping centre in Liverpool.
One of A.T. Boyle’s short fiction stories was Highly Commended from 1,700 submissions to the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines competition. It reached the last eight on the shortlist. Four of these stories received full audio production and broadcast slots.
Oil print and oil paint on canvas (detail) A.T. Boyle 2025
Although the original story missed out on broadcast production, it was later adapted for the Listen text, with new oil print artwork created by A.T. Boyle and published in 2025.
In 2021 Alison launched Artificial Silk’s collaborative web magazine exObjects and joined a live-streamed Grief panel at Bangalore Literature Festival with Bollywood podcaster RJ Stutee.
Jean Boyle, a talented seamstress and embroiderer and mother who features in the first exObjects story Peace
Alison runs exObjects creative workshops in groups in person, and bespoke one-to-one writing advice via Zoom.
A Nicholson Art Gallery collaboration invited participants to bring an object with a silky texture. We explored items in the Museum collection and the group wrote imaginatively about fabrics and their cultural history.
