Esther Chilton

  • Guest Writer Spot

    My Guest Writer Spot gives writers the opportunity for their  work to be seen and read by others. I’m happy to accept stories, poems, articles – in fact, anything and everything. All you have to do is make sure your prose is no longer than 2000 words and your poems no more than 40 lines.…

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  • My Weekly Writing Challenge

    This week’s challenge  is to write a twenty-word story using as many words from the list given as you can, or you can write a story/poem from the second list: Option one: Choose your words from the following list and write a twenty-word story: Bubbles Aquiver Mellifluous Champagne Christmas Serendipity Nefarious Dave Aroma Supine Elephant…

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  • Markets For Writers

    Some of the markets I highlight have very short deadlines. My market for you today gives you plenty of time to craft your story. The Christopher Fielden Annual Short Story Competition “To Hull & Back” is now accepting entries, but you have until 31st July 2016 to send your entry. It’s a humorous writing competition…

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  • The mind boggles…

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  •   …going to be announced a week today on 30th November 2015!  

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    My Friday blog post offers writers the opportunity for their  work to be seen and read by others. I’m happy to accept stories, poems, articles – in fact, anything and everything. All you have to do is make sure your prose is no longer than 2000 words and your poems no more than 40 lines.…

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  • My Weekly Writing Challenge

    My challenge  for you this week is to write a ten-word story using at least six words from the list given, or you can write a story/poem from the second list: Option one: Choose at least six words from the following list and write a ten-word story: Xylopolist Train Ulotrichous Sweets Feline Ecophobia Liverpool Furious…

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  • Markets For Writers

    This week’s market is the Daggerville Games Short Story Competition. They run a monthly competition with a chance to win a £30 Waterstones voucher. Details of the competition are posted on their Facebook page. For rules and further information on the competition, visit their website. ***

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  • I would love to know if anyone replied to this…obviously old ‘Bud’ didn’t fancy the task himself!

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  • Originally posted on JO LAMBERT: Good morning Esther and welcome. Can you tell us a bit about ‘you’? I live in Thatcham, Berkshire, with my husband, daughter, three cats and two chinchillas. I love reading. I enjoy crime, as well as psychological thrillers and I’m especially passionate about children’s books. One of my favourite stories…

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