New Short Stories For You To Listen To
My publishers, Victorina Press, have started to make videos of their authors performing story readings. I'm chuffed to have been used as their guinea pig for this project and filmed a reading of 'Death of a Superhero', the opening short story from my collection Alternative Afterlives.
You can see the video and listen to the story:
You can see the video and listen to the story:
- On YouTube
- On Facebook
- On my website
Writing Challenges
The 81 word writing challenge is an attempt to set an unofficial world record for the most contributing authors published in an anthology. We have now received over 750 stories from authors residing on every continent, apart from Antarctica. If you know any writers who lives there, please do let me know... Anyway, 750 stories means the book is 75% full.
You can learn more about the 81 word challenge, including details of why it is an 'unofficial' world record attempt, here.
The second cliché challenge anthology, Tritely Challenged Volume 2, is now full. We will be publishing the book in June 2020. This will be the last anthology published via the cliché writing challenge. It was a tough decision to make, but due to the number of challenges I run and the amount of time it takes to edit and publish these books, unfortunately producing multiple anthologies via every challenge is no longer viable. Therefore, I’m scaling things back and I will be making similar changes to some of the other writing challenges over time.
That said, the cliché challenge is still open and future submissions will be published on my website. You can learn more and submit your stories here.
You can learn more about the 81 word challenge, including details of why it is an 'unofficial' world record attempt, here.
The second cliché challenge anthology, Tritely Challenged Volume 2, is now full. We will be publishing the book in June 2020. This will be the last anthology published via the cliché writing challenge. It was a tough decision to make, but due to the number of challenges I run and the amount of time it takes to edit and publish these books, unfortunately producing multiple anthologies via every challenge is no longer viable. Therefore, I’m scaling things back and I will be making similar changes to some of the other writing challenges over time.
That said, the cliché challenge is still open and future submissions will be published on my website. You can learn more and submit your stories here.
Trish Hopkinson's 'A Selfish Poet' Blog
I recently wrote a guest post for Trish Hopkinson's blog. The website is mainly about poetry, but Trish's readers are also interested in short story writing, so I was pleased to be invited to write a piece for her.
You can read my post, 'How to Give Your Writing the Best Chance of Being Published', here.
You can read my post, 'How to Give Your Writing the Best Chance of Being Published', here.
To Hull And Back
The 7th To Hull And Back short story competition opens its doors on August 1st 2020, with a new whoppingly massive prize pot.
You can check out all the details here. Then try and contain your excitement for 3 months, while you wait for the mother of all writing competitions to reopen.
You can check out all the details here. Then try and contain your excitement for 3 months, while you wait for the mother of all writing competitions to reopen.
'How To' Book FREE Taster PDF & FREE Course
For those of you that are new to the newsletter, first, welcome :-)
Second, my free short story writing course is now available. You can learn more and sign up here.
Second, my free short story writing course is now available. You can learn more and sign up here.
Third, here is an exclusive discount code for my comprehensive short story writing course:
- EMAIL10% as you probably guessed, this code gives you 10% off :-)
Fourth, you can now order a free sample of my book How to Write a Short Story, Get Published & Make Money.
The book uses my published short stories as case studies, so you can clearly see how all the advice and tips were used in practice to achieve publishing success.
If you want to buy the full book, here is a discount code for you to use on my website:
The book uses my published short stories as case studies, so you can clearly see how all the advice and tips were used in practice to achieve publishing success.
If you want to buy the full book, here is a discount code for you to use on my website:
- PDF01 gives you 33% off PDF copies of the book
