The shortlist for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition was announced today and, rather excitingly, my story “Advice re Elephants”

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I found out yesterday that I’d been shortlisted in the poetry section of the the inaugural Slingink Prize for “Imitation

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So the shortlist for this year’s Bristol Short Story Prize was announced today, and I still seem to be hanging

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As any writer will tell you, things should always happen in threes. Today has definitely followed that rule. Two of

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My name is Jonathan Pinnock and I am a poet. There, I’ve said it. Anyone who has a problem with

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I had an interesting little double whammy in this competition this year, managing to be a finalist (but no further)

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Last night I received a nice e-mail from Southport Writers’ Circle to tell me that my rather odd piece, “The

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The near-misses are coming thick and fast. I found out today that my poem about Lizzie Siddal, “Imitation of a

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Here’s another of those “persistence pays off” stories. Sort of. I’ve been entering the monthly Global Short Story competition on

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I just found out that I’ve got a “Highly Commended” in each category of this quarter’s JBWB competition. The fiction

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