Small and weird

No, I've not* eaten so many fruit slices, tattie scones, haggis breakfasts, Abernathy biscuits etc etc that I've grown - the Kelpies really have shrunk!

*Well... maybe I have eaten a lot, but I've walked loads too. 

 Free entry writing competitions

Thank you to Sharon Boothroyd for sending me the link to the Welkin Prize for micro fiction. There's a first prize of £75 for up to 100 words of narrative prose, fiction or non-fiction.

This Valentine's poetry competition was also found by Sharon. The first prize is a £100 gift voucher. Previous winners can be read on the site, to give you an idea of the sort of thing they're looking for.

And thanks to Fiona for this short story competition from the Hudson Review. It's open to anyone not previously published in that magazine (which I'm guessing is most of us?) The first prize is $1,000 plus publication.

Call for submission

Thanks to Marguerite for the link to this from Weird Christmas. This year, instead of a competition, there's to be an anthology of flash fiction. Around a dozen stories will be published. Each will earn $35.