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Passing stranger or long-time follower, whichever you be – pause in your journey, make a little stay here, sit down and tell me your joys. Lurkers, back-button-hitters, accidental surfers, from Ireland and England, Denmark and Bangladesh, California and Arabia. I see such fascinating little sepia-toned vignettes on my stat-counter: “the hopeless joy”, “the difficult joy” [...]
I was at a literary gathering about a month or two ago and had just decamped to the pub with a group of others. I fell into conversation with one of the few non-poets in the pub – he turned out to be a fellow programmer so we had some common topics of discussion I [...]
An interesting novel. It’s like the Pompidou centre; he declares the structure up front as he narrates. “And now as one character fades, a new character enters the scene” he announces before dragging in an Englishman who tells a story, fills up a chapter and then vanishes. I’m learning quite a lot about novel-writing just [...]
I got an email a little while ago from a reader asking how I put my e-book “A Trifle” together. I’m not sure if they got my reply or not, but I thought I might reproduce some of what I wrote in reply to them in case anyone else was planning on trying the same [...]
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’ve just learned that my story “The Accompanist” has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming anthology “Music For Another World“, an anthology which will contain science fiction / fantasy / genre stories on the theme of music. I am obsessed with music, classical singers, etc and a lot of this comes out in the [...]
Franz Liszt, “Uno Sospiro”:
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 [...]
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