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November 18, 2009
- I have loads to write about but let me start by saying.. The Bristol Short Story Prize is now officially open - too all writers worldwide! 3000 words maximum - no minimum length, deadline 31st March, seven pounds per story. Prizes: 1st-£500 plus £150 Waterstone’s Gift Card, 2nd -£350 plus £100 Waterstone’s Gift Card, 3rd -£200 plus £100 Waterstone’s Gift Card. Each of the 17 ...
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November 16, 2009
- The Nebula Award nominations are now open and much to my astonishment I have three short stories that people might want to consider if they feel in a nominating mood…The first is "End of the World", the story appearing in Professor Brotherton's online anthology Diamonds in the Sky, consisting of astronomically correct Science Fiction stories written by graduates of his awesome ...
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November 10, 2009
- This is how to start the week off with a smile: CHAINS has been nominated to the longlist of the Carnegie Medal! What is the Carnegie Medal, you ask? It is the top award for children's novels in England, sort of a combination of the Newbery and the National Book Awards. I am completely blown away by this - honored, stunned and very, very happy. British ...
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October 30, 2009
- Just a quick note to say that, much to my astonishment, The Bones of Summer is a Jury's Choice finalist in the Mystery/Thriller section of the new GLBT fiction Rainbow awards and you can see me on the list here.Well, gosh, eh! That's certainly put a smile on this screwed-up, mood-swing obsessed author's face ...I've also managed to complete my latest GLBT short story, Airheads and Angels, and ...
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October 29, 2009
- I am thrilled to announce my animated screenplay, Nevaeh Can't Wait, was just awarded the 'Kids First! Official Selection' recommendation by the Coalition for Quality Chidren's Media. The animated short film explains the affects of terminal illness to children."The Coalition for Quality Children's Media is a national, nonprofit organization founded in 1991 whose mission is to teach children ...
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October 28, 2009
- Avid crime fiction readers and crime writers in particular will be pleased to learn that The Times has linked with CrimeFest for 2010 to provide media coverage for this exciting convention. The increased publicity this will bring for the genre is to be welcomed. The Times will also be covering the Crime Writers Association (CWA) Dagger awards, which includes the CWA Dagger in the Library, ...
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October 15, 2009
- HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!The National Book Award Finalists have been announced. The finalists in the Young People's Literature category are: Deborah ...
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October 14, 2009
- He finds it weird that Indians claim him although he is not really one of them. Most expats would take it as part of the parcel. Not the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is not mincing words when he says, “All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It takes me an hour or two to just remove their mails. Do these ...
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October 4, 2009
- Here's today's poem:Meditation 232There’s an awful lotof travelin the early churchso it’s obviousthat sainthoodwould never have suited meat all.Church today was okay - quite a good sermon about relationships really - but we had one of those horrid dirge-like hymns I can't stand for the third hymn. Groan. Way too many verses in "Lord Jesus Christ, You have come to us" for my liking ...
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September 14, 2009
- I'm not yet ready to blog about what it's like to have moved countries, that kind of thing, I am still musing, so I thought I'd bring some exciting news from Short Story World. First, Electric Literature, the new lit zine that is available in print, as an eBook, or for your Kindle of iPhone, and pays its contributors a wonderful $1000 per story (!) has taken an exciting step into the world of ...
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