The Feb issue is here! The largest number of short stories – much, much flash fiction! – we have ever reviewed in one month: 145 in McSweeney’s Small Box, and 38 in Oxfam’s four-book Ox-Tales set.. as well as greenflies, strays and easter rabbits, stories in C Minor, the real louise, friends and fajitas, childhoods [...]
February 7, 2010
Look at new post from the VoiceofMin 'The Perils of Just for Now Jobs' at: http://www.incwriters.co.uk/?p=1198 # Powered by Twitter Tools
February 6, 2010
I was delighted to be asked by Ruth O’Callaghan if I could set up a website for the excellent Camden and Lumen Poetry project when we chatted after one of the packed and friendly events yesterday. You can find the website on http://www.camdenlumen.wordpress.com and, although the site is very new, it shows the events and [...]
February 6, 2010
The latest issue of Staple Magazine, themed around the connections between writing, music and the spoken word, is now available, with more information on our new website: http://www.staplemagazine.co.uk The ability of music to conjure memories and past events is well known, and the connections between writing, performance and the sound of spoken words means poetry, fiction [...]
February 5, 2010
Look at new post from the VoiceofMin ‘The Perils of Just for Now Jobs’ at: http://www.incwriters.co.uk/?p=1198
February 5, 2010
“Poems must not exceed 40 lines and must be typed on one side of A4 white paper with no illustrations.” All typical demands in the rules of poetry competitions that assume all poems are linear sets of lines of text. I’m no expert but where’s the space for creativity? My own attempts at the form are published rarely but two of [...]
February 4, 2010
Like many authors published by Bluechrome I’ve been waiting for definite news about what’s happening with the company and with our books so that I can decide what to do when my first edition runs out soon. The owner, Anthony Delgrado, has proved impossible to contact for some time. This is unusual as he was [...]
February 2, 2010
Carol Ann Duffy is the new patron of the excellent Camden and Lumen Poetry events and project, which not only help publishers and poets: proceeds go to support the Cold Weather Shelter. I was really pleased to hear the news about Carol Ann Duffy from the event organiser, Ruth O’Callaghan, who works tirelessly to make [...]
February 2, 2010
India is the latest country to raise a strong protest against Google’s plans to use books they have scanned to publish and sell online. In a post last week I described how Google got permission from libraries in the US to scan books in order to use the information for search queries. Since then a [...]
February 8, 2010
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