From bar to barrista The Whitbread prize – worth £50,000 to the winner – is moving. Previously the literary award was associated with the Whitbread conglomorate, whose most obvious public face has been their pub and brewery business. Now Costa Coffee, a part of the Whitbread empire, will be taking over the sponsorship deal. I […]
Please come along … Tales of the DeCongested Evening at Cella, the Sanctuary venue – 10 July 2006, 7.30 pm Sussex and London writers including Kate Ansell, Frank Goodman, Frances McCallum, Justine Mann and yours truly will present their work, which features in an anthology of the best short stories performed at Tales of the […]
Submission call Working Women: Stories of Strife, Struggles and Survival Should women work? Why should women work? What kind of work should women do? These are only a few of the many issues that society and women continue to wrestle with on a global front. ‘Women in the workplace’ is a notion that continues to […]
Save the date … Tales of the DeCongested Evening at Cella, the Sanctuary venue, Brighton, UK – 10 July 2006, 7.30 pm I will be reading, as will the excellent and euphonious Frances McCallum, and a bunch of other talent from Sussex and London. I’m thrilled to pieces about this: Cella is a wonderful venue, […]
Finding time to write 5 – Take breaks – You need to take breaks for maximum productivity. Research shows that the average person can only listen for forty-five to fifty minutes before his attention begins to flag. For creative work, the period of time you can really produce your best is even shorter. Work for […]
Solicitations There’s nothing nicer than being contacted by an editor who’s read your work elsewhere and wonders if you have something they can publish. This happened to me a few months ago, and I’m very pleased to have received my copy of Zocalo, the Art and Literary Quarterly of Oaxaca. I love Mexico and being […]
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