For the first time the SSS event went ahead exclusively on YouTube - with links from the SSS website. The theme was DISRUTION! and the event was our 20th. It was dedicated to the late Rick Vick. Video links here.
I have a story long listed for the Exeter Story Prize which is organised by Creative Matters. At this point I’m not allowed to say which it is because of the ‘blind’ judging process. Here is the long list.
I have provided a video piece on Endings in Short Fiction for the online literary magazine The Phare for its Writers Tips section. Here it is.
Riot Act, the online literary magazine, has accepted my piece ’M is for Mingus - a dialogue’ for publication in their second issue.
A recording of me reading my story The Most Beautiful Thing She Has Ever Seen’ at the Great Escape event at Bristol LitFest on 25 October 2020 is now available from the Just Write Bristol website. It’s here.
Delighted to have two new 100 word micro/flash fiction pieces in the forthcoming Worcestershire Literary Festival Anthology entitled Her Final Goodbye which will be published later this year by Black Pear Press. The pieces are ‘The Man I Love’ and ‘Woman Driving, Man Sleeping’. More information to follow when the anthology is published.
Publisher/competition website Cranked Anvil has decided to publish a print anthology of its winning stories and some of its short listed stories. This includes one of mine. More information to follow.
I have been invited to read my recently published story ‘The Most Beautiful Thing She Has Ever Seen’ with the Just Write Bristol writers as part of the Bristol Literature Festival. This is on Sunday at 7pm on Sunday 25 October. It will be on zoom.
More info here - https://justwritebristol.org.uk/2020/09/29/life-and-the-litfest-goes-on/
It’s free but you’ll need to book for the event here - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/story-sunday-the-great-escape-with-just-write-bristol-tickets-119942624619
My story ‘The Most Beautiful Thing She has Ever Seen’ has been published in Issue Two of Truffle online literary magazine.
Here it is.
The online literary magazine Storgy has published my flash piece ‘A Visit to the Pet Shop’. It was their Friday Flash on 7 August 2020.
Here it is.
My short story, Orly, has been published in print in the local listings mag ‘Good on Paper’.
My little story ‘Flat Screen’ has been published in the Launch Issue of the wonderful new online literary journal The Phare.
Here it is.
I was delighted to be asked to say a few words on video to support the brilliant local listings mag Good on Paper.
Here it is.
The next Stroud Short Stories event ‘Disruption’ - our 20th - will be online (via YouTube) on Sunday 8 November from 7.30pm. It will be free of charge. The event is dedicated to the late Rick Vick. It is part of the 2020 Stroud Book Festival.
Links will be provided on the SSS website.
My short story ‘The Most Beautiful Thing She has Ever Seen’ has been accepted by Truffle Lit Mag and will appear in their second issue. No date yet.
More about Truffle here.
My short story ‘Flat Screen’ will be published online in Issue One (ie their inaugural issue) on 1 August 2020.
The Phare is a new online literary journal run by Steve Wheeler (Steven John) and Claire Harrison. More info to follow when it launches.
Online journal Storgy will publish my flash piece ‘A Visit to the Pet Shop’ on their website on Friday 7 August 2020.
More about Storgy here.
I am delighted to say that my flash fiction piece ‘A Visit to the Pet Shop’ has been accepted for publication by the online literary journal Storgy. More details to follow.
More about Storgy here.
My little flash piece ‘The Day of the March’ has been published by online literary journal ‘Spelk’.
It’s here.
My story ‘The River’ read by noted actor Bill Ward (Coronation Street, Emmerdale etc) was broadcast via YouTube by Bath Story Friday. The theme was A Breath of Fresh Air.
Watch/listen here.