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Sorry for the long gaps in posts – I’m admitting defeat and taking a break for the rest of the summer. We’ll be back in early September. Also, someone emailed me about joining Writers Anon, but I was away on work and now can’t find the email. If that was you, please email again, so…
Here are some writing opportunities I’ve come across this week. A competition, a literary event and magazine submissions wanted.
Celebrating Bare Lit Festival, a literary festival for writers of colour, which kicks off in London on 27-28 February 2016
If you’re looking for places to submit short stories, I’ve got just the thing. Competitions are good because they give you a target and a deadline; both things that help smother the procrastinator who lurks within us all. And when you click ‘send’ on that email, you feel all good inside because you’ve written something…
Highlight of the week at Taunton Literary Festival is Anthony Wilson, who looks back at a life lived with poetry and reflects, this Friday, 13th November, at Brendon Books, in Taunton’s historic Bath Place.
Just over a week to go until Taunton Literary Festival 2015, in Somerset, kicks off. Everyone is invited to help Taunton Literary Festival celebrate its fifth year, bringing Taunton alive with a love of books and storytelling from 7-28 November.
Sometimes it’s hard to find your local writing group. There may be a coven of writers, lurking right under your nose without you knowing it and this could be the case with the North Curry Writers, in Somerset – a great group for beginners.
There are a few creative writers who genuinely write for themselves alone: they don’t want to be published and they don’t care if no one else reads what they write. When I say a few, if a writer is honest with themselves that is really a very small few. Most people write because they love…
Despatch Rider on the Western Front 1915-1918 Talk and reading followed by book signing, Brendon Books, Thursday 30 July at 7.00 pm, contact Brendan books, email:brendonbooks@gmail.com, Telephone: 01823 337742 Sergeant Albert Simpkin MM’s Great War diary is of unusual scope and exceptional interest. Albert was a First World War motorcycle despatch rider attached to the Headquarters 37th Division throughout…
Common Ground By Rob Cowen Talk and reading followed by book signing, Brendon Books, Friday 24 July at 7.00 pm, contact Brendan books, email:brendonbooks@gmail.com Telephone: 01823 337742 After moving from London to a new home in Yorkshire, Rob Cowen finds himself on unfamiliar territory, disoriented, hemmed in by winter and yearning for the nearest open space. So one…
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