Archive For The “short stories” Category
Come and listen to me read my short story, THE PARTY IS OVER.
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Today I was in an apathetic mood, feeling a bit emotional and lost. These were my choices for the evening: (in no particular order)*go to the Hammer & Tongue Poetry Slam*stay in, being miserable, feeling sorry for myself, thinking too much*return a mis…
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My short story, The Butter Dish, will be published in the Scribble Magazine!!! (It’s not yet confirmed which issue.)What inspired me to write the story was buying a butter dish in a charity shop in a moment of a nostalgia … (I didn’t even eat “real” …
I made it to another shortlist with another short story: Next of Kin for the Ilkley Literature Festival competition, judged by Barbara Trapido.I’m very happy and excited as this indeed shows that I can write in English.Read about my other story, Lovers…
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Most of my short stories I’ve thought up out of the blue and written without deciding how long they were going to be beforehand. This is fine if you’re writing for yourself or are so established that you are getting collections published.Most magazines…
- Comments Off • Asham Award • short stories • Tania Hershman • Vanessa Gebbie • word limit • writing on a theme
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There’s a season for eveything. A season for Dr Martens and a season for Birkenstocks. A season for novels. A season for short stories.The weather has made me change my working habits. I find it impossible to work inside on my laptop when the sun is s…
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When I did the creative writing course at “Jakan” in Stockholm we did a field trip to Norstedts – one of Sweden’s biggest publishing companies. What I remember the most is that the editor who showed us around said that in order to become a writer you …
- Comments Off • Bridport Prize • Edge of the sea festival • Jakan • Norstedts • short fuse • short stories • writing and being alone
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I was very happy to be part of Short Fuse Story Salon at Komedia yesterday. Writers were invited to submit stories that “pushes the boundaries of what a short story can be, and experiments in some way with voice or form.” The story I read is called EX …
- Comments Off • Chris Callard • creative writing • David Swann • flash fiction • Komedia • short fuse • short stories • Tania Hershman • Tara Gould • Vanessa Gebbie
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I just read Vanessa Gebbie’s blog post where she writes that she’s going to take a break from writing for the first time in eight years due to her father not being very well. She says “It is odd not being a writer any more, for the moment. I am wander…
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