Free listings. Promote your creative events
WHAT THE DICKENS, the quarterly print magazine about all things creative, now has a new listings section. Get in touch if you want to promote courses retreats submissions competitions writing … Continue reading
WHAT the DICKENS magazine OUT NOW! 100 pages of creativity
Issue 7: The Journey Edition is in PRINT now thanks to a great bunch of folk who donated money via Sponsume. A preview of the magazine is still available online … Continue reading
Watch an Irish Winter Solstice
Tomorrow Friday 21st December 2012 at 8.45am (GMT) you can watch the dawn sunshine of the shortest day of the year light up the interior of an ancient temple on … Continue reading
Writing for Children
The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award is for a manuscript that celebrates cultural diversity in the widest possible sense, either in terms of its story or in terms … Continue reading
Bad Sex, Good Sex…
Nancy Huston has won the 2012 Bad Sex in Fiction Award for Infrared, published by Atlantic Books. Infrared tells the story of Rena who is a photographer with a taste … Continue reading
Write like an American
When things go bad, when the fears that disturb your sleep become waking reality, words are clumsy and awkward. They can’t possibly express the depth and breath of what you … Continue reading
Enter a poetry competition to support an arts organisation
I’ve just heard that the Torriano Poetry Competition is low on entries and that the Torriano Meeting House is in real need of the funds the competition generates. It is … Continue reading
NEW creative writing magazine in print for the very first time
Order the first print edition of WHAT THE DICKENS magazine now. It has been available on line for six editions but thanks to public support you can hold it in … Continue reading
London’s deadly fog
60 YEARS AGO today London was smothered in a deadly smog. It was bitterly cold and very calm: no wind blew away the toxic air. Instead it lay over the … Continue reading
Bargain Books from Brighton Bestellers – Christmas shopping sorted
Christmas Book Sale on Saturday December 15th: 4-6pm at The Writers Room, 47 Richmond Road, BN2 3RL. Come and buy books for the barganous price of £5 from local Brighton … Continue reading
WIN a copy of A GOOD CONFESSION result
Drum roll. Nervous shuffling of feet. It gives me great pleasure to announce….oh wait, apology first…so sorry for the delay in revealing who has won a hardback copy of A … Continue reading
You have until midnight…
…to donate to the first print edition of the highly acclaimed creative writing and arts magazine WHAT THE DICKENS. If you become a backer you will get your own copy … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 