Another Highly Commended Poem and Another Review for Dot Dash
Hmmm. Need to hone my headline writing skills, I think. Whatever. I found out on New Year’s Eve that my
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Category: Competitions
“This Is Just To Be Meta” and Other Poetry News
An odd little poem of mine went up at The Pygmy Giant today, the first of a batch of three
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The Bridport Prize (Again)
Last time I announced a Bridport shortlisting, it brought an utterly astounding amount of traffic to the blog, so I’m
How To Win Short Story Competitions… and other stuff
Now that post title should bring in some traffic, shouldn’t it? It also happens to be the name of a
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Ink, Sweat and Tears Again and Other Stuff
What with promoting Mrs Darcy and so on, I haven’t done a lot of submitting stuff lately. But I sent
The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes
Well then. I’m inordinately chuffed to be able to announce that I’m going to be judging the short stories this
Willesden Herald Giveaway Winner
It’s all go today. To coincide with the opening of entries for the Willesden Herald New Short Stories Competition, I
The Scott Prize
On Friday I noticed a tweet from Salt Publishing saying that the Crashaw and Scott prize winners would be announced
Ink, Sweat and Tears Again
Whilst I was away on holiday, my Proxima label-mate Charles Christian handed over the editorship of Ink, Sweat and Tears
Club Eclectic: The STIRRED POeT 1.3
Another spiffy cover by the artist who goes by the enigmatic moniker Five Seventeen heralds the anthology from this year’s