Okay, just for fun and because I am indeed a nasty person: if you have a go at answering these via the comment function, I’ll send you the list of elegant transitions for use in writing about sex that was brainstormed by my superb students. And I will hurrah mightily whoever gets these mainly, or […]
Last night was the fifth of six classes I’m teaching on Writing about Sex. The group is small and highly skilled, so it’s an intensive environment where a lot of good learning is happening, often by me as well as the student group! Last night was no exception. One of the invaluable experiences that emerges […]
Local, lively, LewesNot Morse’s sidekick, but Lewes the East Sussex town, where the editorial offices of The Frogmore Papers can be found. This is one of the local short fiction/poetry publications that gives hope for a literary future in the UK. Beautifully presented, full of thought-provoking work and inspiringly straightforward, this journal is well worth […]
SmokeLong Quarterly – fiction for smart, impatient people! I love SmokeLong, not just because they publish me, but also because their fiction choices always punch well above their word weight. Since the beginning, Dave Clapper and his team have been publishing the cream of the flash fiction crop: incisive stories with twists and mordant humour, […]
Why blog?Good question. I could spend several months positing answers and maybe I will. Answer number one: because everybody else is. Not good enough. If everybody else stuck their hand in the mangle, would I? (shades of my grandmother there, and if you don’t know what a mangle is, go and look it up). Answer […]
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