It’s always a cause for celebration for writers when a new literary magazine is launched, and I’m thrilled to have my story ‘How to Cross the Ocean on the Back…
Thrilled as I am to have ‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’ on display anywhere, it is a special pleasure to see it in Seaways, my local bookshop in Fishguard. It’s a…
As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve recently joined Goodreads. If you want to make the most of it, either as a reader or author, I can see you…
Summarizing my writing achievements of the previous twelve months is something I usually do around the New Year. As with everything lately, I’m rather behind (due to lockdown torpor, general…
Something from before Christmas, that I didn’t post, but want to, as I was very pleased about it……delighted, in fact, to have my latest finished work included on the long…
Wishing all my readers and followers a better year ahead. And thank you for all your support. Seem to have got behind with my posts, owing to winter torpor (pandemic…
I am so pleased to have another five star review of my collection, featured on Amazon and Goodreads. It’s by David Rose, who also appeared in this year’s ‘Best (British)…
I am thrilled to be among Arachne Press’s nominations for next year’s Pushcart Prize. This is for my story ‘Ballast’, which featured in their ‘Time and Tide’ anthology. It’s a story I was…
A review of ‘Trouble Crossing the Bridge’ is up on the TSS Publishing website.https://theshortstory.co.uk/short-story-review-trouble-crossing-the-bridge-by-diana-powell/(The photo is of Jacci, not me!) Reviewer Jacci Gooding concentrates chiefly on a few stories, while calling…
Lovely to have this piece about ‘Whale Watching’, in our local paper, ‘The Western Telegraph’. (Like the headline!)https://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/18874816.whale-watching-diana-powell-years-best-british-short-stories-anthology/The story is set in Fishguard, one of the areas covered by the paper, and…