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Open Readings (Online) – In partnership with the Barbican Library
Open readings (online) in partnership with the Barbican Library. Join us in a friendly atmosphere for a chance to read out your written work - [...]
How to write descriptively – Nalo Hopkinson
How to write descriptively - from Nalo Hopkinson Another great video from TED talks about writing descriptively and aligns to the show, don't tell approach. [...]
Inaugural winner of the Writers Initiative flash fiction competition
The Writers Initiative Flash Fiction Competition The Writers Initiative, is happy to announce that Ella Mcfarlane is the inaugural winner of the first Writers Initiative [...]
Goatshed Press – Paid Story Submissions
Goatshed Press Goatshed Press is a newly established publishing company and is looking for submissions for the first of their biannual anthologies. Their pay writers [...]
The Wandering Book Collector Podcast – Michelle Jana Chan
Michelle Jana Chan, who gave a reading of her book 'Song' and a question and answer session for the Writers Initiative, has started a new [...]
Looking inside the gift of Christmas
At this time of year, some of you may be thinking about writing your own Christmas stories An Outsider: What's interesting about some Christmas stories [...]
Christmas Ghost Stories by the Fire
Christmas Ghost Stories by the Fire During the Victorian period, there was a tradition of reading ghost stories around the fireplace with a group of [...]
A Selection of Short Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens read by John Van Stan | Full Audio Book
Festive Christmas Stories A selection of wonderfully narrated, Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories. These audiobooks are provided by LibriVox which are open to all and within [...]