I blogged about Sally Zigmond's brilliant short story course. It's continuing, and is fabulous and if you're interested in writing fiction of any kind, I strongly recommend you read it and take part. You can find the first installment, How Do I ...
I blogged about Sally Zigmond's brilliant short story course. It's continuing, and is fabulous and if you're interested in writing fiction of any kind, I strongly recommend you read it and take part. You can find the first installment, How Do I ...
My dear friend Sally Zigmond has begun a short story writing course on her blog, The Elephant In The Writing Room, and even if the short story is a form you've never even considered, I urge you to take part. ...
A short-story writer called Brenda Carter has written a story called Past, Present and Future and sent it off into the big wide world all alone. And I mean all alone.Brenda's contact details have become separated from her story, which is a shame: because an editor wants to buy the ...
My thanks to Paul Lamb for bringing this lovely little book to my attention, and for letting me reproduce his review of it, which originally appeared on his blog last year. I’ll confess at the start of this ...
Sara Crowley has had fiction published by Pulp.Net, 3:AM, elimae, flashquake, Litro, Cella's Round Trip, Dogmatika, Red Peter, Better Non Sequitur, and a variety of other lovely places. “Salted”, her novel in progress, was shortlisted for the 2007 Faber/Book Tokens Not ...
Salt Publishing is a tiny independent press which specialises in publishing strong literary fiction and poetry. As is so often the case for independent presses, Salt has struggled to remain in business: but, thanks to the determination of its proprietors and their incredible ...
Tania Hershman is a former science journalist who has recently been commended by the judges of the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers. Her first short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories, is published by Salt Modern Fiction (and has been ...
The literary magazine The Yellow Room has today published a plea for more entries to its forthcoming short story competition, which closes on 20 March. The Yellow Room is Jo Derrick's latest project: she also founded the literary magazines QWF and Cadenza. I was lucky enough to be awarded prizes by both of those ...
I came upon an interesting blog post today which followed on from last year’s Willesden Herald short story competition. For those of you not familiar with the story (she said pompously, as if she had known about it all along), the Willesden Herald runs a short story competition each year but in 2007 ...