This is a piece of unedited writing, submitted for review and critique
High Tide in the City is a noir cyberpunk novel by Martine Lillycrop. The following is an extract from the book, available now on Amazon Forget the turban, the Asian music, wispy beard and joss sticks, where he lived said more about Sitaroo Man than his appearance. His next-door neighbour was the council’s high-level housing…
The Second Life of Bethany Sweet is a fantasy novel about a girl who wakes up in a world she doesn’t belong to. Read an excerpt
Fellow Writers Anoner, Paul, has done it, he’s finished his novel and it’s now available to buy. But before you do, read this excerpt for a taste of his fantastical world with a touch of sci-fi.
This is the first clip of my radio play, The Garden, which makes its début at Taunton Literary Festival on 22 November 2015.
So tomorrow is Undiagnosed Children’s Day, for kids with genetic wossnames wrong with them, but of such vanishing rarity that no-one really knows what’s up. At that point we get into frontier science and medicine. Nenna (my daughter, 6) has been submitted, along with thousands of other kids for a country wide study called Deciphering…
“A few years ago I wrote a poem about winter that I recently retrieved from a cupboard…. It is not news, of course, but it says something about what I feel when I look today out of my study window onto the landscape of winter around me. I know that when I go up…
Today’s writing prompt is to construct a poem, each line should have one word starting with the next letter of the alphabet and the the poem should be written for someone or something you care about. I did this on a writing course and we had a time limit of half an hour. The idea was…
We’ve a new contributor to the blog. Let’s welcome Jonathan Stone, who’s written the following short story for critiquing. This is the first time John has had his work read and, as we know, that’s a fragile and scary moment, so lots of encouragement, please! Baby Suet was motionless in shock. She had not expected…
This is the revised version of Anne David’s piece – Mate Rajdla – based on comments made by our blog readers. For the original go here. There are times when a single moment happens and it’s not until years later that you realise that that moment was a representation of all that took place at…
A snippet of new writing from Anne Brayley for feedback and constructive criticism.
There are times when a single moment happens and it’s not until years later that you realise that that moment was a representation of all that took place at that time.
Writers Anon - Taunton's Writing Group 