Tag: short stories
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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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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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“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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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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Ray Bradbury’s ‘Metal Book’
I fell in love with Ray Bradbury’s beautiful poetic prose and his sharp psychological and socialogical insight when I picked up Faranheit 451. Although known as a science fiction writer, it seems to me that the alternate worlds he creates in order to render his discourse and express his love and fear for humanity are…
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Review of The White Road and other stories by Tania Hershman
A collection of short stories is a tricky thing. The reader needs to get a sense of the writer’s unique voice and residual personality and style but without the stories running into sameness. In The White Road and other stories Tania Hershman accomplishes this masterfully. The collection is inspired by articles from science magazines but…
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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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Growing up to be a short story writer
As we grow within our writing experience we pass through different stages. You gain maturity, you just ‘know’ things you didn’t understand before. This presents a feasible analogy with life and its stages towards adulthood. Here I wanted to explore my progression as a short story writer. The examples given at each of the stages…
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