Category: short stories
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The long and the short of it: Story endeavours
It’s been designated Short Story Year. At this moment in time I don’t know where exactly this marvellous idea originated but I know it’s based in the UK and that doesn’t stop me from appropriating the concept and running with it, particularly since writing and reading short stories is my favourite thing. I’m also going…
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Voices of Angels: New Anthology
J ust to let you know that one of my stories is being aired in a new anthology, Voices of Angels by Bridgehouse . Bridgehouse, run by Gill James and Debz Hobbs Wyatt is an independent publisher who aim to promote new writing and in particular produce short story anthologies. If you are a short story writer…
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My Amazing Week of Treats and Tricks
This has been quite a week in the world of Wells the writer. Since due to family life sometimes quite extraordinary things seem to whizz by in the periphery, not receiving the full attention they deserve, I’m going to take a moment to reflect on the upward momentum that has happened all at once. I…
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“Breaking News” on Metazen
In it’s own words Metazen is an online zine that “is a flytrap for metafiction, existentialism and absurdism.” My story “Breaking News” is published there today and I’m quite chuffed about that.
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The Eighty Nine Anthology launches!
A few months ago I joined in with Jodi Cleghorn’s Literary Mix Tapes venture where crowd sourced fiction meets music. The particular project was Eighty Nine, the result is 26 stories of speculative fiction prompted by songs from 1989 and including events from the Berlin Wall to Tiananmen Square. My song prompt was Cher’s If…
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On The View From Here
Just to say that my story Truth and Silence has been kindly published on the literary magazine The View from Here site. This is one of the stories in my collection Random Acts of Optimism which I’m currently submitting.
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Short Story Delights – Bridport Prize and more
A quick post to say that the results of the Bridport Prize are now official and I’m absolutely delighted to say that one of my stories has been shortlisted in this popular and very well known competition. Being on the shortlist means that the story reached the last 100 out of 6000 entries. On hearing the…
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Launch of Crannog 25
Last Friday night I went along to read at the celebratory launch of issue 25 of the well-regarded Irish literary magazine Crannog in the Crane Bar, Galway. And what a great night. It was my first time in the Crane Bar, an intimate, authentic, homely venue on Sea Road in Galway. There was a real…
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When does the story end?
Before proceeding with some musings on short story creation I would like to firstly mention an arena where I hope the story will never end. I refer here to the wonderful and brave Salt Publishing who this year celebrate ten years of innovative publishing, introducing new talent and being a particular champion of short story…
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