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MAKING DANCE WITH FRUIT
In January I published a short story, Making Dance with Fruit, as a Kindle. It is available at all Amazon Kindle stores. As you know the story was first published in Barcelona, INK Number 5 and subsequently re-issued in the anthology, The Best of Barcelona, INK. It’s a quirky story about time and space, and draws [...]
Read PostPopes and Lightning bolts, Pancakes, Buried Sardines, Footballs, Hearts, Martyrs, Meteors, Babel-like towers and Fire on the Streets of the City
February 2013 Interesting series of events this past week: Carnaval; the Pope’s resignation; a bolt of lightning striking the Vatican within a few hours of the Pontiff’s announcement; the celebration of Santa Eulalia (Barcelona’s other patron saint); Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday); Ash Wednesday — the beginning of Lent (la Queresma), the burying of sardines and Real Madrid [...]
Read PostBARCELONA INK, Number 11
The 11th issue of Barcelona, INK — the city’s only literary magazine in English — is now out and about in bookshops across the city. Price (paper): 6€ and worth every cent. This special edition, timed to coincide with the very popular BCNegra, Barcelona’s international crime writing festival, features stories, poems and essays inspired [...]
Read PostCLUELESS UPDATE: COMPETITIONS CALENDAR OCTOBER
I’ve updated the COMPETITIONS CALENDAR page. I have added links to another 6 short story competitions, all with deadlines in October, with prizes of between £100 and £300. Words With Jam is offering 3 prizes of £300 for a short story of up to 2500 words; a shorter short story of up to 1000 words; and an [...]
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