Category: short stories
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#fridayflash Finding the bog body
This is a short incident from my novel in revision The Book of Remembered Possibilities. A driver finds what turns out to be a bog body. This piece is one of three juxtaposed ‘moments’. The bulldozer judders, throwing sound across the bog’s wide valley back to the jagged hills. In the broad sweep of a…
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The business of self-publishing: Bookshop launches
Self-publishing is becoming a viable and accepted method for writers to either bring out a book that is hard for publishers to define, for traditionally published writers to relaunch old out of print titles electronically or through print on demand, for writers to supplement their traditional titles or fund their writing on the path to…
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New short story collection, #Fridayflash and Smashwords news
Self-published in a library Smashwords have just announced an exciting new library initiative for their bestselling titles. Read more about it here. Publishing is in a state Here’s a very very interesting article about the state of publishing today and the role of ‘indie’ publishers in that. Today’s #Fridayflash Today my #fridayflash short fiction is…
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Celebrating its announcement: a Higgs Boson short story
I have leapt out of my retreat upon the news that scientists at CERN are announcing results consistent with the discovery of the Higgs Boson. My school level Physics means that I’ll have to leave it to others to explain but here is a story based around the concept of the Higgs Boson, the particle…
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Book of Hope Competition Win!
I’m delighted to say that I’ve been chosen as the winner in the Fiction category of the Big Book of Hope Ebook with my story Flashes of Entropy and Hope. This story was created out of a series of interrelated flashes I have written for a project in progress Flashes of Sadness and Light. My…
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Flash fiction thoughts and A.J. Ashworth’s short stories
Howdy. I’ve been putting myself about elsewhere today. On writing.ie I interview A.J. Ashworth whose wonderful short story collection Somewhere Else, Or Even Here won the Scott Prize and is now released by Salt Publishing. The collection is fabulous. Read more about it and A.J. Ashworths views on short stories here. I’ve also been pontificating…
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Melting Moments
In the spirit of promoting short stories: here’s a link to a story called Melting Moments by one of the marvellous people in my writing group. It’s one of a few shortlisted for a competition to be decided by public vote. If you like it, please vote. She would very much appreciate it! http://www.facebook.com/AVogelROI?sk=app_305458682847766
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Hosting: Split Worlds Story: Coming of Age
Emma Newman’s (or EJ. Newman’) Split World project’s aim “is to immerse you in the Split Worlds with a mixture of storytelling, live events and online interactive events culminating in the launch of a five book series.” The Split Worlds “is an urban fantasy setting with gritty noir, fantastical magic, evil faeries and people just…
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Short stories: Dead or alive on Writing.ie
I’ve put up a new post called Short stories: Dead or Alive on my Random Acts of Optimism blog on Writing.ie with links to two articles on opposite sides of the argument.
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The Stinging Fly: Chat and Submissions
The Stinging Fly is a well respected literary magazine published from Ireland. It’s currently accepting submissions of poetry and short stories (postal) for it’s summer issue until Jan 31st and for all issues until Mar 31.For more details see here. What’s it like to run a literary magazine these days? What are the challenges and…
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