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Aug.17.2010
I've finished the judging for the Sean O'Faolain short story competition, sent my decision in on Monday. The longlist will be announced next week, I'll let you know when it's posted. In the meantime, I thought I'd reflect on how it was for me, what I learned as a reader and as a writer.
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Jul.30.2010
I'm about to stop my nagging, I truly am, but I wanted to make sure you all know that the deadline for the Sean O'Faolain Short Story Competition is approaching - and has actually been extended for 2 more days due to the Irish Bank Holiday on Monday. Now, believe me, it's not that I don't have...
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Jan.02.2010
Hey everyone, the magazine I publish, Broken Pencil, runs an annual short story contest called Indie Writers Deathmatch. It’s super fun and crazy. The top 8 stories as picked by the BP editors (including myself) battle against each other in our online arena. The top three stories get published in...
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Feb.09.2009
(Cross-posted with TaniaWrites)
Writer Service Announcement: Here are some upcoming short story competition deadlines you might want to know about. (As usual, all links open new windows/tabs, so feel free to click all of them without fear.)
Feb 14th: Writers & Artists Yearbook: 2000 words,...
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Nov.21.2008
I've been keeping it in for three months and now, finally, I can announce: I am the European regional winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's short story competition. I went to the awards ceremony tonight, it was wonderful, in a beautiful historic building in London, on Pall Mall....
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Jun.07.2008
Below is a blog entry that my husband, Martin, posted back in April, in SingleMindedWomen.com, where he is the Money Channel editor. As the gas stations at the end of our block duel it out for the privilege of being the first on the street to reach $5 — here in SF, within a week, I think—his words...
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