A New Website celebrating the short story — SAFARI FRIDAY SEARCHING THE WEB FOR WRITERS AND READERS
Short Stops is a new – very new – website dedicated to the short storyin the UK and Ireland. It officially opens on Sunday November 17th but it is already … Continue reading
READING LIKE A WRITER – how did they do that?
This is part of my new look Mondays. For about a year I have posted creative writing exercises at the start of the week (you can find a small selection … Continue reading
Safari Friday searching the web for writers and readers — a new home for short stories on the web
Like short stories? Want to read more or find a home for those you write? ReadWave – a short story website based in London that has attracted a big following … Continue reading
What is a short story?
Someone asked me recently to define a short story. I could understand her difficulty because it’s much easier to say what’s it’s not. It’s not an idea that could have … Continue reading
Free to enter Harper’s Bazaar UK Short Story Competition
The prize for this competition is pretty special as befits a magazine of Harper’s Bazaar glossy snazziness. The winning entry will appear in the May 2014 issue and the author … Continue reading
Great Giveaway
Sally Quilford writes short stories for women’s magazines, judges writing competitions and writes a monthly column with Writers Forum magazine. Stephen Fry once described her as ‘pleasantly sane’… I’m telling … Continue reading
Delve into the dark underbelly of the Criminal World for this Scottish Short Story Competition
The Bloody Scotland short story competition wants stories on the theme ‘Bad Luck and Trouble. The winner will receive £1,000, a weekend pass to Bloody Scotland Festival 2013 and a … Continue reading
A complete short story on a stamp
What a good idea … what a really good idea. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate Dublin’s permanent designation as a UNESCO City of Literature than by … Continue reading
PRADA international short story competition
Prada – the high fashion luxury brand based in Milan – is running an international short story contest with Italian publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore. The theme is wide: “views of … Continue reading
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: getting in the mood to write FLASH FICTION
None of these exercise ideas might actually produce a flash fiction story you would want to call your own, but I hope they get you into the mood for writing … Continue reading
SAFARI FRIDAY searching the web for writers and readers THIN READS
This is a very new website – just five days old – and based in America so not relevant to everyone, but I wanted to include it in SAFARI FRIDAY … Continue reading
INTERNATIONAL ghost story competition
The Fiction Desk is running a short story competition for all English-speaking writers aged 16 or over. There’s a first prize of £500, and a second prize of £100; both … Continue reading
USING MUSIC AS A PLOT DEVICE – extract from a creative writing exercise in Back to Creative Writing School
James Joyce’s The Dead has been called by some critics the best short story ever written. Indeed when I was studying for a Masters in Creative Writing a tutor apologised … Continue reading
Did you know that the world’s richest short story competition has never been won by a Brit?
But that could all change this year as 12 of the 16 authors long listed for the £30,000 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short are UK- based authors. To be … Continue reading
BRIDGET WHELAN writer 