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 [...]
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 [...]
Via another online list, I was alerted to this. Salt Publishing, a well-known and well-respected publisher of short stories and poetry, are starting a romance imprint, initially with e-books and paperback to follow. There is some information here in an interview with their editor, Jane Holland; since it’s necessary to scroll half way down the [...]
In The Write Light writing workshop in Spain are running a competition with a prize of a week in the South of Spain in September on a “writing memoirs” workshop with Nell McCafferty. While it does not appear to be restricted to Irish people, the competition is run in conjunction with Aer Lingus, so flying [...]
Wil Wheaton / John Scalzi Fanfiction Competition based on a picture of Wil (aka Wesley Crusher) riding the skies in a giant unicorned cat and Scalzi painted in green attempting to take him on with a sword. Laugh all you like, but the prize is good: your story is published in Subterranean Press at 10 [...]
I have to say Twitter is great – you pick up all sorts of links from everywhere. Originally from Ask About Writing – the Guardian Weekend Short Story Competition. No monetary prize, but being published in the Guardian is nothing to sneeze at. Send stories in body of email, not attached. Also, an interesting story [...]
Daily Science Fiction are an online magazine who plan to do exactly what they say on the tin. They pay well too. From their guidelines, I imagine they prefer flash fiction if at all possible. And in the correct genres of course.
Sorry to spam you all with posts this sunny Friday when you’re having your lunch – but I’ve no idea how this didn’t get picked up on earlier. The very respectable online magazine Dublin Review of Books is running a Flash Fiction Competition with James Ryan and Eilis ní Dhuibhne as judges. The prize is [...]
where I went up the top of Lugnaquilla along with an experienced walker and descended down the eerily-named South Prison to Glenmalure. Stayed the night in a hostel once owned by Maud Gonne McBride which had no electricity or running water but was right next to a fresh spring. The weather was wonderful for it [...]
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