Tag: Writing competitions

• Why read a book? (Competition)

  Several years ago I attended the wedding of a friend. At the table I was chatting to one of the guests and the topic of reading came up. I was flabbergasted when she asked ‘why would you read a book?’ She simply did not see the point. For someone for whom books have been central…

  alisonwells

  July 3, 2015

  Books and Authors

  Books, reading, Writing competitions

• Underwater

  Glug, glug, glug.  Have gone under for a while, under housework, mainly 3 feet of ironing, under homework, teething, the whirlpool chaos that is a very mobile eighteen month old. I have managed to revise and tweek some entries for the Bridport Prize 2009 a very presitigious prize that is several steps up the ladder…

  alisonwells

  June 10, 2009

  Writing Adventures

  Ali Smith, Bridport prize 2009, How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer, Writing competitions

• Writing Endeavours

  Since the children were born, I have been picking away at creative writing, finishing one (quite woeful) novel and still progressing another, with a third whirring away in my head (busy writing itself I hope!). In the last couple of years I have revved up a little and wisely turned my attention to short stories.…

  alisonwells

  April 19, 2009

  Writing Adventures

  broadcast, Francis McManus Short Story Competition results, Persistence and Optimism, publications, Writing competitions, Writing Mothers