[UPDATED 17/1/22] Happy New Year, happy new writing opportunities. January seems as good a time as any to plot world domnation through words. If nothing else, it can be useful to set deadlines in order to actually finish some the many drafts languishing in your files. And some competition organisers are so forward-thinking, you could… Read More Short story competitions 2022
[Updated regularly] It may feel as if January is in its 95th day, but you have to trust me when I say it really is coming to an end. And if you’ve been struggling to get back to disciplined writing time after the lovely laziness of Christmas, this list of upcoming short story competitions might… Read More 2019 short story competitions
It isn’t easy to compete with glorious weather, the obligations of Mother’s Day and a Game of Sport that I am incapable of naming, so it came as no surprise that the third Fiction at the Friary was a somewhat smaller affair than the previous two. But the enthusiasm was great for what turned out to… Read More Fiction at the Friary, March 2017: guest speaker Danny Denton
Word herding 