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A Big Thank You! Thank you to all of you who have been sending in markets for me to use in this slot. They’re gratefully received and I will be using them, but this week’s market is one I came across at the weekend and, as it has the shortest closing date, I thought I’d…
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Was it really Christmas Eve and two weeks ago when I set my last writing challenge? The time has really flown and we’re already a week into the New Year. So here’s to a new set of challenges and for something completely different. Each week, I’m going to give you three different options. Here are…
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Summerita Rhayne has featured on my blog before and I’m pleased to showcase her wonderful writing again with the release of her latest book, More Than Just Desire. About the book The Bollywood diva who ran away… Piya walked out of an explosive situation three years ago. She married Arfaaz for security but left him…
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As Christmas is almost upon us, I thought I’d get into the spirit and so my new weekly series takes a look at some festive signs to make you smile:
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If you’re looking for a short story and/or poetry competition, which offers decent prize money, you might like to take a look at the Magic Oxygen Literary Prize. Unpublished stories of up to 4000 words and unpublished poems of up to 40 lines are accepted. There is no set theme. Prizes awarded for each category…
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Meet the Winners! It’s with great pleasure that I’m announcing the winners of my second flash fiction competition. Once again, I had a staggering amount of entries so thank you to everyone who entered. I’m only glad I wasn’t the judge – there were some stunning entries and I’d have picked far too many winners!…
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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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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!
Esther Chilton 