Tag: short stories
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NaNoWriMo 2017: Day 20
Yesterday I finally had time to write and, as you know from my last post, I had an idea ready to run with as well. So, that’s what I did. I wrote the whole thing (2000 words) in pretty much one sitting. God it felt good. I’m pretty sure you all know that feeling you…
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NaNoWriMo 2017: Day 15: I won a short story competion!
So you may remember a few days ago I received some exciting and distracting news? Well I can now share that news with you…. My short story ‘Roots’ won the 2017 Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing, fiction category! The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is a national award for unpublished short-form crime writing…
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Helping Hand – Flash Fiction
There was a little girl who lived on the streets. She made what money she could from selling wild flowers, collecting them at dawn by the river bank far out of town. She made enough money to feed herself and, in time, to purchase a woven wicker basket allowing her to collect and…
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Flash Fiction: Fairy Lights and Black Holes
The cops glide by, at a leisurely pace, on their Segways. Slow and steady, helmeted, backs straight as their faces. Three kids, Lebanese, Caucasian, Islander. Backs against the wall. Two of the three sit obediently heads bowed. The other… not so much. “Sit down now,” says one of the coppers. They’ve parked their Segways neatly…
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Short Story Competitions – March 2017
I’ve been doing a lot of research into upcoming short story competitions this year with the intention of submitting to as many as I can. Since I’ve done the research I figure I should share it. So here is my list of short fiction competitions with deadlines in March. Happy submitting! F(r)iction Winter Literary Competition…
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How I Write Short Stories
Hello world, I filmed a video recently on my process for writing short stories which I wanted to share. It wound up pretty long (around 8 minutes) but I hope it’s full of useful, or at least insightful information on my writing process. If you want to read the short story mentioned in the video…
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In which many good things happen
I’ve been having a string of good luck lately. In the last week I received my Masters degree from Deakin in the mail, placed first in The Writing Junction Mentorship and Microfiction competition for my story ‘Crow’ and had a short story published in The Airgonaut. My Facebook and Twitter pages have become the grounds…
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Flash Fiction: A Ghost
The mattress was expensive and soft, much more comfortable that her own. That alone would have been enough to make her stay. The long, beautiful sleep it offered. But they never did much sleeping. The pillows were equal in quality. When he wasn’t back from work she used one for her head and hugged the…
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Flash Fiction: Sally Turner
Sally Turner’s mum had a boob job before she was born. She did it to improve her chances of getting television work. It worked. She got a job as a tabloid reporter for three years. Sally feels sorry for her mum now, living back then when it was all about looks and people mutilated their…