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Category Archives: Fiction
£500 in Dystopian Fiction Prize (closing date 1 Nov 2014).
£500 is up for grabs in the Dystopian Fiction Prize organised by the Orwell Society. Closing date 1 November 2014.
Details here.
Poems wanted from Lincoln MA writing grads for Siren Radio.
This is a message to all former and current grads of the MA.
I’ve been talking with Alex Lewczuk, founder of Siren Radio, the University’s community radio station, and one of its regular presenters, about getting some creative writing input to the radio.
My initial idea is to invite grads to submit some short pieces of their writing to be recorded for transmission on Siren. Poems fit the bill because they’re short, but there’s no reason we can’t think about longer prose pieces as well. Grads could read the work themselves or we could get someone else to do that for them. We can also consider the idea of having grads talking about their writing.
Recorded material would be preserved as a podcast on Alex’s radio site, Southside Broadcasting (and therefore available for replay on the internet), and you would have the benefit of the podcast as a promotional tool.
If you have any pieces you’d like us to consider, just email it to me at my University email.
The Shakespeare’s Birthday/St George’s Day Field Trip.
Our Shakespeare’s Birthday/St George’s Day Jaunt to Tupholme Abbey; followed later by visits to the bookshops of Horncastle, including The Most Dangerous Bookshop in the World (Tim Smith Books).
Ranin and Chelsea selfie
Frank thinks of Britt Ekland
Joel looks at a pond
We eat pizza
This is another pond
Ranin gets to go into an English field
Robert Edric, guest reader at symposium.
Robert Edric, our guest writer at the symposium on Wednesday, 9 April.
With 24 novels to his name he’s one of our foremost novelists.
Many thanks to him for his informative and encouraging words.
List of UK Short Story Competitions.
List of short story comps at The Book Trust.
The first issue of MISO magazine is available.
The first issue of MISO magazine is now available. MISO is the literary magazine for creative writing undergrads, postgrads and recent graduates
Issue 1 includes interviews with Forward Prize-winning poet Emily Berry and Frank O’Connor Prize-winning short story writer Simon van Booy.
It also includes new writing from:
Marita Algroy – University of Roehampton
Jenna Clake – University of Birmingham
Aiden Clarkson – Keele University
Krishan Coupland – University of East Anglia
Kate Garrett – Sheffield Hallam University
Rachel Hyde – University of Kent
Rebecca McManus – University of East Anglia
Lotte Mitchell Reford – University of Glasgow
Michael Kealan Moore – National University of Ireland, Galway
Lynda Nash – University of Swansea
Yohann Okyemba-Ngassaki – University of Gloucestershire
Julianne Pachico – University of East Anglia
Joe Michael Payne – Bangor University
Naomi Poltier – University of Exeter
Hugh Thomas – University of Gloucestershire
To order a copy and to find out more about it go to MISO.
The Interpreter’s House – poems and short stories.
The Interpreter’s House is a magazine of new poems and short stories. Worth taking a look at and possibly sending work to.
Being an author is like being a shark….
Writing a book every five weeks:
“Being an author is like being a shark, you have to keep swimming or you die,” he says. “People don’t want to wait a year and a half for the next book in the series, they want instant gratification.”
Russell Blake in WSJ on his prolific book-writing career.
Disruption 101 for Self-Publishers.
The publishing industry is undergoing significant disruption. Amazon is pushing down book prices and controlling the point of sale. Self-publishers are flooding the market with cheap books, producing some very high quality work that competes with traditionally published books, and proving a new business model that may well lure authors away from traditional deals.
The level of disruption cannot be underestimated, and it’s going to have a significant impact on publishing as we currently know it.
Read more at Forbes.