Womag and other writing

I'll be spending all of today amongst people who have crime on their minds, as I'm a participating author in a crime literary festiv...

 Free entry writing competitions On the Premises have a new mini competition . This time they want two stories, but even if you use the maxi...

Short post this week, as I've been busy with non writing stuff.  Alyson Hilbourne suggested sharing this blog post from Kath McGurl on ...

We're making plans for our next trip away in the van (which is why you've got pictures of a previous one). Most of the places we int...

This probably makes me sound old, but... It's March tomorrow. How can that be happening so soon? On the plus side, that makes it semi-of...

Back to coloured sticks this week!  Free entry writing competition news Here's a flash fiction competition . In this case, flash means u...

Happy Valentine's! I've picked you some flowers (from my photo archives). We're away in our campervan for a couple of days – jus...

Today's treat (in addition to the bargain book mentioned below) is some coloured sticks. You weren't expecting that, were you? Free ...

Free entry writing competitions. The Jim Baen memorial short story competition is for ' a short story of no more than 8,000 words, that...

Free entry writing competitions In case you missed it, here's a link to the extra post I made on Tuesday, with three free to enter comp...

  This week's post is much earlier than usual, due to the limited amount of time left to enter one of the competitions coinciding with m...

Womag news HB spotted this from The People's Friend on X recen tly "We're thinking of summer! Especially summer fiction! Kick o...

Free entry competitions Parsec are running a sci-fi short story competition on the theme of metamorphosis. I thought I'd already mentio...

Have you finished all the festive cheese and chocolate, and got used to writing 26 instead of 25 yet? I've been doing better with one of...

Do you have writing plans for 2026?  My aims are to enter a few more competitions, complete the next novel in my cosy mystery series , get b...