Archive For The “writing” Category

World Press Photo Exhibition Horrifies and Informs

By | August 11, 2011

Another previously published story from my  archives.  This ran in the Budapest Times in October 2004. WORLD PRESS PHOTO EXHIBITION HORRIFIES AND INFORMS by Alison Boston The winning images from the 47th World Press Photo Competition (2004) are not, …

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Flash Fiction Friday: An Accidental Opportunity

By | August 5, 2011

Written at Under the Bridge writing workshop. We were given an exercise to write a couple of sentences setting the scene, then we passed our sentences to the next person and had about 5 minutes to write the story based … Continue reading →

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Got An Extra 60,000 Euro This Month? Pick up a Bronze Head at the Knoll

By | August 1, 2011

Here’s another from the Budapest Times stories published October 2004. Image selected from those delivered by Zemanta. Got An Extra 60,000 Euro This Month? Pick up a Bronze Head at the Knoll by Alison Boston Budapest’s Knoll Gallery is hard…

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Fiction Friday: Here’s to Tomorrow by Alison Boston

By | July 29, 2011

We’re working on dialogue and more than one 3rd person POV in the writing group.  Here’s my effort. So much for flash fiction and keeping it under 500 words!  Better luck next time. Mary walked out of the flower shop … Continue read…

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Shakespeare Serves A Sensual Banquet (Even in Hungarian)

By | July 25, 2011

When I lived in Budapest I contributed regularly to the Budapest Times.  This is the first piece I wrote for them, published I believe, the first week of October 2004.  My records don’t indicate the publication date but my files … Continu…

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A few words of introduction

By | January 7, 2011

Hello, good evening and welcome to my blog/site. Here you’ll find out about me, what I do, and what I can do for you. If you have any questions you can contact me at adam@adampowley.com, and I’m also on Twitter … Continue reading

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Not for the faint hearted

By | August 19, 2010

In order that I don’t spend my entire life in the classrooms at work or in front of a screen at home and as a way to network occasionally with the likes of local writers, I joined the Brighton-based Write Club last year. It’s an informal network of loc…

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Writing a book on freelancing

By | July 1, 2010

I’m writing a book!!! I’m very excited about this. Ever since I wrote ‘Monkeys’ – my powerfully insightful poem about the nature of monkeys – at the age of 7, I’ve fantasised about writing a book. Now, at the age of 32, I have my first opportunity to write a book, and it’s really exciting. [...]

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Tentative steps towards more regularity

By | April 23, 2010

Inspired partly by some recent comments from a reader, I’ve decided to try and post on this blog a little more regularly than I do. It had got to a point where I pretty much only do if I feel I’ve got something valuable to say, something interesting to…

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‘Noughties, But Nice’: a review of the previous decade

By | April 5, 2010

It was a few months coming and should have gone up in early January, but I’ve finally completed and posted my review of the previous decade. Titled ‘Noughties, But Nice’ (click on link to visit review), it was originally intended for this blog but ende…

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