I got tipped off to this place called Write-Invite.com where a live half-hour writing competition is held every Saturday evening at 5.30pm. They give you three prompts, you pick one and away you go. It cost £3stg to enter and if you win you get £40stg. When I saw it on my twitter feed it [...]
I have that attack of the snuffles that is going around the place (I am rarely ill and when I am it is rarely anything special) so I have downed a lemsip and will shortly be off to bed after having watched as much property pr0n as a girl can handle But just before I [...]
I have just learned that my story “Identity” is one of the winning stories to be published in the Creative Identity anthology up and coming this autumn. This anthology was based on an open competition run by Stephanella Walsh at The Creative Identity site earlier this year. It is actually a savage little story with [...]
My Nature story, for those who have not yet seen the link, is up here. Today on my twitter feed, reporter Mark Little linked to this gem of a little film “How To Be Alone”. Words and music by singer Tanya Davis and film by Andrea Dorfman. This resonated with me – a measure of [...]
I just received my complimentary copy of the “Music For Another World” anthology in the post the other day, as one of the contributing authors. It is beautifully produced. Mark Harding, the founder of the small press Mutation Press, has done a wonderful job and it proves what can be done outside the large publishing [...]
Hello dear readers – hope you are enjoying the fading embers of a lovely weekend! I have some news of publications coming out and thought I might share. Next week, my story “Stay Special” should feature in Nature magazine, in their science fiction Futures section. To those who are coming here from Nature – I [...]
Gosh, I am tired. I have not moved from the couch for the last hour except to bring back a cup of tea and half-listen to Gok Wan telling people how good they look naked. After a surge of energy the wave inevitably crashes back on the beach. See, even my metaphors are as tired [...]
Just reading this book today. Got it on recommendation, plus was intrigued after the author’s comments on an earlier entry. I have to say it’s a real find. Marjorie Quarton delivers a brief but illuminating guide about starting to write in a real-time environment and all the fundamentals you need to deliver good prose. Marjorie, [...]
A little bit of Bach:
Main page here. I’m glad. I had writing withdrawal symptoms. David Rice is the judge, there is a reasonable entry fee (payable by cheque). Important note: the word limit appears to be 600. That is very tonsured flash fiction right there. But the first prize is €500 – not bad for 600 words!
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