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  • Guest Writer Spot

    Welcome to my Guest Writer Spot. This week’s Guest Writer is Jo Elizabeth Pinto. She’s written a super short story. Before you read it, you might like to know a little bit about her: J. E. Pinto was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1971 and grew up in Brighton, Colorado. She has a nine-year-old daughter

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  • Markets For Writers

    We’re getting closer to Halloween so why not pen a Halloween themed story? Writing Magazine are holding a Halloween Short Story Competition. The word limit is 500 words and if you’re the winner, you can choose your prize – either £100 or a critique, and publication on the website. There is an entry fee of

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  • Funny Of The Week

    I hope the Senators are putting in plenty of practice sessions for the next game… Photo credit: PIXIMUS

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  • Bite Size Writing Tips

    Alone and Aloud As writers, it’s so easy to become immersed in our work. Often we know our own stories  so well, which means that when we read our writing to check for errors, we miss spelling mistakes, a word here and there, a comma etc, because we know what it should read.  So try

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    It’s with great pleasure that I’m welcoming Martin Strike aka The Newbury Short Story Teller back to my Guest Writer Spot. This week, he has a fabulous story to tell: Browned Off at The Great British Bake Off Let me introduce you. These are cats. Three cats sailing a on a cat-à-meringue.Mrs Pastry is on

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  • I Challenge You To…

    This week’s challenge is to write a story, limerick or poem on the subject of: Favourite indulgences Last week’s theme was favourite songs/music artists. They clearly inspire you. Some of the pieces are here, while you’ll find others by following the links: Keith Channing At the ages of twelve or thirteen What an innocent time

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  • Markets For Writers

    The Fiction Desk is accepting general short story submissions. They say that now is a prticularly good time to submit a story as they’re currently looking for stories for their latest anthology. Here’s some more information from them: ‘We’re always looking for new short stories for the Fiction Desk anthologies, and most of the stories

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  • Funny Of The Week

    An easy mistake to make…

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  • Guest Writer Spot

    I’m starting to receive some super pieces for future Guest Writer spots since my call-out a few weeks ago. If any of you would like to be considered for my Guest Writer Spot, please contact me: estherchilton@gmail.com I accept fiction (up to 1000 words), non-fiction (up to 1000 words) and poetry (up to 40 lines).

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  • I Challenge You To…

    This week’s challenge is to write a story, limerick or poem on the subject of: Favourite songs/music artists Last week’s theme was favourite books. They clearly mean a lot to you. Some of the pieces are here, while you’ll find others by following the links: Keith Channing A handful of my favourite books Have made

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