short fiction
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 7, 2009
- There will be much much more on this over the next few weeks and months, but for right now, head over to Salt's blog to win a copy of Short Circuit - the hot-off-the-press Guide to the Art of the Short Story, edited by my great friend and colleague, the wondrous and extremely hard-working Vanessa Gebbie. Short Circuit includes my essay on flash fiction and I am deeply honoured to be in the ...
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October 19, 2009
- Whoo hoo! Finally got around to adding one of my favorite recent short stories, "DeathThreats", to my blog. If you are cursed by mortal fears, have a dread of dying, this is the tale for you. Mordant without being morbid, evocative, chilling and funny.Pop over to my blog and either listen to it or download the PDF--no charge, as free as Woodstock (without the bad drugs). And do ...
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September 29, 2009
- Four days at a short story festival, what a wonderful idea! From Thursday night until Sunday night, at gorgeous Charleston, home of Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, writers reading from their stories and talking about stories. And in a large barn, with atmospheric lowing from the cows next door and the soothing hum of milking machines. I came on Thursday night and stayed til Sunday ...
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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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August 21, 2009
- Angelina The IT Librarian by Annette J Dunlea
Angelina
Angelina O’Reilly was a forty year old ladyShe was currently employed as a professional librarian in a university research library. She was as beautiful as she was clever. Although she worked full – time it was not out of financial necessity as her husband Ryan was Co- owner of RCI, a computer firm and managing director. She was ...
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August 10, 2009
- I'm delighted to announce I've posted "New World Man" on my site, as of this morning. I consider this tale to be one of the ten best I've ever written--it appears in my Reality Machine (1997) collection and posits a near future world where even the traditional family has broken up...and revolution is in the air. I once jokingly called it "the last cyberpunk story" and ...
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August 10, 2009
- There's an interesting discussion over at The Rumpus, where a blog post entitled "More Crappy News for Short Story Writers" brings us more of those quotes we short story lovers and writers have become used to hearing, from an agent writing in response to being sent a short story collection:Publishers don’t like to publish short story collections in general unless they are VERY high ...
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August 5, 2009
- Look, I love the short story format, I really do. Cut my teeth on it, short prose taught me all I needed to know about sentence structure, pacing, syntax, proper word choice...But this summer I didn't have short stories on my agenda, I was supposed to be editing my third novel. But something funny happened on the way to the novel-- Here, I explain it in more detail on my blog, Beautiful ...
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August 4, 2009
- Fiction writer and stand-up comic A L Kennedy's blog posts on the Guardian are always a great read, but this time I found her words even more poignant and hitting-home (is that a phrase?) than usual. She's talking about reviews, apropos her new short story collection, What Becomes, which comes out on Aug 6th and which I am eagerly awaiting! She says:[B]ook reviews are odd things. They emerge ...
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