Advent Calendar December 3rd
The 1914 Christmas Truce This short film made by The Imperial War Museum in London explores what really happened in the trenches in the first Christmas of World War I … Continue reading
Advent Calendar December 1st
The First Christmas Card The first printed Christmas card was produced in 1843 by Sir Henry Cole, a civil servant who had helped Rowland Hill set up the Penny Post in … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan has a Word for it
Mrs Finnegan performs an important public service by compiling a list of insults hurled on the back streets of Brighton. She also shares (with reservations) a recipe for homemade wine.
Mrs Finnegan Discovers 23 Ways Not To Die
If you want to stay safe, follow the advice Mrs Finnegan has quarried from centuries of folklore and young wives’ tale
Brilliant Opportunity for Disabled Writers at the Start of their Writing Career
Curtis Brown Creative is offering a free nine-month mentoring programme to four aspiring disabled authors. You can be at any stage of your writing career from just starting to having … Continue reading
What scares you? Talk, Discuss, Create
Emma Dalrymple, a former psychology lecturer, contacted me recently to ask if she could to use some of the exercises in Back to Creative Writing School at an event she … Continue reading
Mrs Finnegan is Blown Away by Stormy Weather and her Own Verse (which is much Worse)
Are you troubled by wind?The rain has lashed Brunswick Square* in recent days and the gales that followed tore tears from the eyes of young girls and DRIED the pavements … Continue reading
What I’m Doing Instead of the Thing I’m Supposed to be Doing
Yes, it’s time wasting, and yes I have plenty of other things I should doing and yet it makes me ponder on the nature of our existence
Mrs Finnegan is Stumped
Mrs Finnegan has a blockage and hopes devoted readers can help – especially writers and drafters of binding contracts.
The Dragon’s Den for Writers – Ireland’s Novel Fair for Unpublished Novelists
The Novel Fair in Dublin is an annual event that all emerging writers should have in their sights. Entries are welcome from anywhere in the world as long as you can make the February Fair online or in-person.
Free to enter International History and Myth Short Story Prize
Love history? Like a good myth? The Ink of Ages Fiction Prize is one for you. Run by World History Encyclopaedia and sponsored by Oxford University Press, there are two categories: What you … Continue reading
A Title! A Title! Mrs Finnegan is Quite Overcome
You will no DOUBT, dear reader, recall that some weeks ago I asked you to suggest a title for my forthcoming book. There were THREE choices: (A) A Housekeeper’s Homely … Continue reading
International Competition for Novel Extracts
Will 6000 words taken from your unpublished novel win you fame and fortune?
Well no, but it might get you a consultation with an agent and $3000.
But as the old lottery slogan said, you have to be in it to win it…
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 