That's some success in two of their flash 500 comps in a row. I'm not allowed to give the name of the story until the final decisions are made on first, second and third. Not optimistic of top three!
This is a humourous short story competition run by Chris Fieldon. 'The Night Ape' has made the short list and I await the news in October of whether it makes the top three. There were 284 entries. It will also definitely be in the 2016 anthology.
This Saturday 27 August 2016.
https://hulitfest.com/hawkesbury-upton-pop-up-festival-august/
I really enjoyed last Saturday's Talking tales short story readings at Stokes Croft Writers. My friend the writer Natalie Lee read my story 'Da' in a perfect Irish accent. And there were wonderful readings by Simon Toseland, Farai Angeloe, Shaun Clarke, Christie Cluett, Tamar Hodes, Leah Eades, Ciaran Fagan abd Andi Langford-Woods. Mark Rutterford made a brilliant MC.
Thank you to Bristol's Stokes Croft Writers for choosing my story 'Da' for their event at the LeftBank Centre in Cheltenham Road, Bristol at 6.30 on Saturday 13 August. I won't be reading it though. Because I wrote it in a female Irish accent, it will be read by Stroud's answer to Jon Culshaw, Natalie Lee, who is a brilliant writer herself.
Details here
Lovely. The announcement/notification is here
Really lovely evening of short stories in Bath called The Speakeasy. A pleasure and honour to read with Katherine Doggrell, Nicolas Ridley, Chris Allsop and Mark Lewis.
'The Note', which was one of 17 short stories to be shortlisted by the Australian publisher Raging Aardvark for its Twisted Tales competition, has made it into the last 14 to be published in the Anthology in November this year. More here
Not allowed to say which it is at this juncture. But it's on this list.
'The Note' has been short listed by Australian publisher Raging Aardvark for its 2016 Twisted Tales Anthology. It's in the last 17.
Thank you to The Speakeasy in Bath for selecting my story 'Lips' for me to read at their event on Thursday 28 July. My first reading at this relatively new event.
Full details here
Back on the 1st of July I attended the launch of the short story anthology for which I selected the stories at the Evesham Festival of Words. It features the 11 stories I shortlisted including the winner 'That Time Again' by Jan Petrie.
It's a really good little anthology published by Black Pear Press. The stories are really lively and clever and about half are funny.
Full list of authors and titles and my statement as judge are here
Here is my story 'Christmas' published online yesterday for the National Flash Fiction Day's Flash Food Journal.
Heard within ten minutes of my submission that my story 'Christmas' will be published online on the National Flash Flood Fiction Journal website on Saturday 25 June 2016 at 3.30am. It will be here
This is a review of the live radio play 'When Will It be Me?' at the Bath Fringe in Burdalls' Yard on 6 June 2016.
Read review here
I have heard that my story 'Sunday Morning', which I read on Sunday at the Bath Fringe event, is to be published in the 2016 NFFD Anthology. First time I have had a story in this anthology. It will be in printed and ebook formats. 50 stories chosen from 500 submissions.
Details here
Tonight I'm reading my story Sunday Morning along with the likes of Mel Ciavucco, Chris Fielden, Mark Rutterford, Anita MacCallum, Ellen Waddell, Kevlin Henney, Grace Palmer, Simon Waltho, Heather Child, Gavin Watkins and Juliet Hagan.
The story I submitted, 'Sunday Morning' for the event 'More Banksy Than Bonnets' was accepted, so I will be reading at the 'Houmourous Short Story Extravaganza' at Burdall's Yard in Bath on Sunday 5 June at 8pm. Tickets £5.