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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
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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.
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!
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.
Well done Marguerite. I assumed that me entry didn't get anywhere in that cold weather comp as I didn't hear anything.
I admit that mine wasn't very gothic, so I guess it didn't fit their brief. I sent a chase up email but it was ignored.
This is often the way with little comps.
I enter and months down the line, I'm still waiting for the results, so I've taken the approach that if I don't hear, my entry has been unsuccessful.
Nothing much else to report. It hasn't been a good writing year for me.
Sorry, I meant to say well done to all with positive news.
Well done everyone with good news. And well done all of us for our perseverance! Not much to share. I've got a reprint in Woman soon. A story that Woman's Weekly published some time ago. No extra pay but we can claim the ALCS. Also my runner-up poem from TPF Harmony comp is due out soon. Am intending having a shot at the Crowvus cosy romance slot. That's about it.
@Marguerite - With TPF serials, you initially submit a detailed scene-by-scene synopsis of the entire serial along with the first instalment. Then, when the synopsis and first instalment are approved, you write the second instalment. Then, when the second is approved, you write the third instalment, and so on. So all the work is done in the detailed synopsis and you don't deviate from that when it comes to writing the individual instalments down the track. It's a very different way of writing, but I enjoy it. All the hard work happens with the synopsis, and I've found the individual instalments very easy to write because the plot/character arcs have already been thoroughly worked out.
Thank you, Liz. Yes — entirely different way of working. It sounds as though it's pretty rigid and you can't mess about with characters or plots part the way through, but if you've had to do all that with the synopsis... plain sailing.
Congratulations to everyone with writing successes and thanks for the serial info Liz. Really interesting.
My news is that my poem took third prize in the EHP Barnard Poetry Competition - it had done the rounds so pleased it got somewhere in the end!
https://www.tomneill.ltd/the-e-h-p-barnard-poetry-prize/
No new news from me regarding acceptances, just what I’ve previously mentioned - a story in WW that’s been delayed until October. I also have two stories - Halloween and Christmas, currently ‘out’ with WW.
I recently emailed a pitch for a Christmas story I’ve written to April at BOWW, asking if I may submit the story. To date I’ve had no reply. Neither a yes or a no. Just wondering if other bloggers have experienced this. It would be nice to know one way or the other.
Michael
Well, April's ghosted me and I haven't heard from her since last October.
I thought it was an open market at BOWW, like it is at WW, and anyone could submit.
I could be wrong but I haven't heard that it's a closed list there.
If it's an open market, there wouldn't be any need to ask for permission to submit a story.
I was also under the impression that if the story was already written, there was no need to send a pitch first, but I could be wrong about that as well.
I'm happy to be corrected.
Just a reminder that April is often away from her desk, so bear that in mind.
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