Saturday, 21 June 2025

Over to you

No blogger is an island – I benefit greatly from the help I get from readers who pass on info, leave comments, share posts etc. Thanks everyone!

Please share writing related news – successes and failures, details of free entry writing competitions, updates about the womags you submit to, any other publication opportunities, and raise any queries you may have. All these things will help other readers of the blog, and help me to keep it going!

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Free entry competition news

Thanks to Alyson Hilbourne for sending me the details of this flash fiction competition from Green Stories - it's good to know they're still going. They want stories under 500 words on the theme of epiphanies. The first prize is £300, with seven runner up prizes of £100!


My news


One of my short story collections, Slightly Spooky Stories I is currently on sale for 99p / 99c.

3 comments:

Liz said...

Not much news here! I have a serial going through at TPF - the second part was accepted a couple of weeks ago, and I've now submitted the third part. I'm currently working on stuff that I hope will come to fruition down the track. I'm also trying to step out of my comfort zone a little bit now that I have more time for writing.

Sheelagh said...

Thanks Patsy & Alyson. No real news here other than a PF acceptance a couple of weeks ago. I haven't been submitting much so I can't even complain 😁. One of the nice things about having lots out there is the possibility of an acceptance email in your inbox!

Marguerite said...

Thank you, Patsy and Alyson. I'm interested in what Liz says about serials - they only pick up one and wait? Not that I've actually made it with one short story let alone a serial - just curious. Anyways, it's good news, Liz :)
I came third in Rayne Hall's no-AI Very Cold Weather Gothic tale and there was a reveal on The Gothic Wanderer's website (a literary one - which makes me chuckle slightly as English Lit at O-level was never really me 😉. Not that I didn't like it but more I wasn't very good at the critical analysis!)
Congratulations, Sheelagh - you really are an old hand with TPF now!
Had a quick surf around new website Patsy :) Yes, I didn't think you'd taken up choreography - glad it's sorted now.