And here it is. My poem, ‘Blodeuwedd Crosses the Road’, in Arachne Press’s A470 anthology.I still can’t quite believe that I have a poem in print, and that it’s alongside a…

If one word could sum up my writing experience in 2021 it would be ‘almost’… but not quite – although, to be more accurate, all this was in the latter…

Solstice Shorts 2021 - Words from the Brink Last night, Arachne Press held its annual Solstice Shorts Festival online, to celebrate the winter solstice and its latest anthology ‘Words from…

I am so proud  (and shocked) to be the winner of the 2021 Cinnamon Press Literature Award, for my novella, ‘The Sisters of Cynvael’. The prize has been awarded jointly…

I have been subscribing to Mslexia for years (almost from their beginnings), and always enter their short story competition, which is regarded among the best – though it is for…

Today – November 26th – is Black Friday, which is when we are all supposed to spend, spend, spend. This is the beginning of my story ‘Risk Factor’, which uses the…

A nice start to November, to hear that I had been long listed for the Grindstone Short Story Prize. The prize has a global reach, and its brief is ‘for…

I am very pleased to have received an acceptance for a short story from ‘Dream Catcher’ literary magazine. My story, ‘Girl before a Mirror, I, II and III’ will appear…

The Bridport Prize has always been held in high regard by short story writers. It has been around for a long time, now, and although, more recently, there are bigger…

As I said in my last item, I was returning to my more familiar prose writing territory, after my ‘foray’ into poetry, and my somewhat surprising acceptance of that poem,…