| 27-12-06 |
 Lola Dane a.k.a Claire Allan has signed a four book deal with Poolbeg. Her first novel 'Rainy Days and Tuesdays' will be published in Autumn 07
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| 20-12-06 |
 Ian Smith 100 's story, 'Nobody Knows a Damned Thing' will be published in Issue 7 of Transmission.
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| 20-12-06 |
Ian Smith 100 's story, 'Nobody Knows a Damned Thing' will be published in Issue 7 of Transmission.
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| 08-12-06 |
Nik Perring short story, 'A gift from the little green man' has been accepted by Bewildering Stories. |
| 03-12-06 |
optimist 's story, 'Looking Glass Vacation' is to be published in 'Future Fire' and 'Jagged Star' is to be published in 'Crimson Highway' in January |
| 02-12-06 |
Minxie 's debut fantasy novel, 'Beyond the Hedge', is receiving an
anniversary broadcast on Channel 4's Oneword Radio, starting on 6th
December 2007 |
| 01-12-06 |
Beanie Baby 's book for 6 – 8 year olds “YUCKETYPOO” , which raises environment awareness through a series of humorous poems which tell the story of the Yucketypoo Monster, is going to be published in the New Year by Lollypop Publishing…… |
| 20-11-06 |
Prospero 's stories 'Remembrance', 'Eye for an eye' and 'Deadly sin' will be published in Issue 44 of the e-zine Doorknobs and Body Paint (www.iceflow.com). 'Remembrance' has won the Flash Fiction competition |
| 19-11-06 |
Mischa won a runner-up prize at Bridport (one of ten) for his short story The Sandwich. |
| 14-11-06 |
nessiec has had two biographies of Virginia Woolf published over the last couple of years,
but now turned to writing children's fiction. She is to be represented by the Ampersand Agency.
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| 14-11-06 |
Luisa has signed a two-book deal with Random House, first book to be published in summer 2008 |
| 10-11-06 |
Jubbly 's short film has been included in the six winning short film comps running in tandem with Starbucks and will be made and screened in January. 'Even more bizarrely it seems Norman Wisdom will be in it. Thanks everyone here for your constant support, this site is an online blood transfusion for people like me.' |
| 30-10-06 |
Account Closed 's mini-novella "Practical Devil Worship" has now been published |
| 26-10-06 |
Account Closed 's poem, "Kitchen Lion", was longlisted in this year's
Bridport Prize |
| 21-10-06 |
tiger_bright 's short story, On the line, is one of the ten winning stories to be published in the 2006 anthology by Daunt Books in London |
| 18-10-06 |
optimist 's flash story Erasure, is in the new issue of MYTHOLOG and 'Blue Moon' will appear in Issue 129 of Bewildering Stories. Thanks to everyone in Flash 1! (several of whom are also in MYTHOLOG)
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| 05-10-06 |
Harry 's co-written musical 'The White Rose' has been published by Hal Leonard Corporation (Australia) |
| 03-10-06 |
Elbowsnitch 's story Jangle has won the Ilkley Literature Festival short story competition. She would like to thank everyone in Flash Fiction 1. |
| 29-09-06 |
Nik Perring 's book, I Met a Roman Last Night, What Did You Do? has been published |
| 28-09-06 |
MF 's short story, "Wet", has been accepted by The New Storyteller |
| 19-09-06 |
EmmaD 's novel The Mathematics of Love has been shortlisted for the Goss (formerly Pendleton May) First Novel Award, which is presented during the Guildford Book Festival. |
| 18-09-06 |
tiger_bright 's flash piece, And the moon sees me is to be published in the next issue of MYTHOLOGY |
| 11-09-06 |
tiger_bright 's flash fiction, Squeeze, is being published by Twisted Tongue in their Christmas issue |
| 11-09-06 |
Ava 's short story "Santa Baby" is to be featured in the Christmas special of Twisted Tongue magazine, issue four.
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| 06-09-06 |
Prospero 's story 'War dance of the Hours' is scheduled to appear in issue 129 of Bewildering Stories
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| 04-09-06 |
Ian Smith 100 's stories Nobody Told the Horse, I Haven't Even Started, and Not Your Problem have been published in the September issue of Surprising Stories http://surprisingstories.dcwi.com |
| 28-08-06 |
Ava 's short story The Florentine Lady has been accepted for publication by Four Volts |
| 24-08-06 |
Scriber 's (Ron Morgans) thriller KILL CHASE is now available on Amazon or on his website www.ronmorgans.com |
| 23-08-06 |
Beanie Baby 's poem "EARLY" has appeared in the anthology "Moonlit Thoughts" published by Dogma Press |
| 22-08-06 |
Katy Kat 's feature "Are We There Yet?" has been accepted for publication by the Peoples' Friend Magazine.
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| 20-08-06 |
Ian Smith 100 's short story, There Has to be a Better Balance, has been published at http://www.eclectica.org. |
| 20-08-06 |
smudger 's story The Last Siberian Tigress was published by The New Storyteller website (www.newstoryteller.com). |
| 17-08-06 |
Prospero 's story 'The Spinning Bowl' is slated to appear in the Winter
issue of Mytholog. |
| 14-08-06 |
Prospero 's stories 'Curry and Chips' and 'Whitechapel, August 31st, 1888' are to be published in issue 43 of the e-zine Doorknobs and Bodypaint |
| 04-08-06 |
tinyclanger 's had two pieces, Carrutherstown and Firebird, selected for publication in an anthology by Selkirk Lapwing Press called 'Both Sides of Hadrian's Wall'. The anthology is due out in October.
She thanks Poetry I and Poetry Seminar Groups for their help and support with all pieces submitted. |
| 04-08-06 |
tinyclanger has had three poems, The 53rd Reason, A Change of Medication and The Conversation published in an anthology by the National Institute of Continuing Adult Education. She's also been selected to participate in a national Mentoring Scheme run by Survivors Poetry. This will involve being mentored by a more experienced poet for nine months, honing and improving work, with a collection to be published at the end of the scheme. |
| 04-08-06 |
Katerina has a flash fiction story in Twisted Tongue, an article in The Lady and a letter in The Best of British.
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| 04-08-06 |
tiger_bright 's short polyptych, Cover Blown, will be published in the September issue of HeavyGlow after being developed in the ww flash fiction group. |
| 03-08-06 |
tiger_bright 's story, Going Down, made the shortlist for ShortHorror's 2006 Summer Contest |
| 03-08-06 |
Ava has had her short story "The night I met with Her" accepted for publication by The New Storyteller.
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| 01-08-06 |
optimist 's flash story, 'Lullaby' is online at 'Apollo's Lyre' , her prose poem, 'Green Sickness' is to appear in the 'Sanity is a one trick pony' issue of 'The Hiss Quarterly' and her flash short story,'Mr Universe' has been accepted by 'Bewildering Stories', scheduled for September. |
| 01-08-06 |
Beanie Baby 's poem “Night Vs Day” is also due to appear in the anthology “A Bedtime Poem For Every Day Of The Year” in October |
| 29-07-06 |
allyb25 's story posted on WriteWords, I'll Never Fall In Love Again, will be appear on www.spinetinglers.co.uk |
| 24-07-06 |
Nik Perring 's poem for a children 'Have You Ever?' is to appear in the 'A Bedtime Poem for Every Day of the Year' anthology, published October 2006. |
| 24-07-06 |
Mac AM 's poem “Empty” appears in issue 32 of Interpreter’s House. Her poems were long listed in the Mslexia Poetry Competition 2006 and she was long listed in the Templar poetry book and pamphlet competition. She will be reading at the anthology launch in October 2006 in Derbyshire. Poems have been accepted for Iota and issue 25 of Seam. She will be reading at the Seam launch in September 2006 in London.
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| 24-07-06 |
disandland has won a contract with Foulsham for a how-to type book on Journaling for physical and emotional health, for publication in Spring 2007
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| 21-07-06 |
joolsk 's poem, 'Mistaken Identity' was one of the unplaced winners of the Mslexia Annual Poetry competition.
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| 21-07-06 |
eyeball 's story 'She' came first in the King's Lynn writers' circle competition |
| 19-07-06 |
Account Closed 's my poem, "Sapphic", will be published in Ascent
Aspirations magazine in August 2006 |
| 18-07-06 |
Prospero 'S story Wanna beer? Has been accepted by e-zine Mytholog and will be published in the next issue.
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| 14-07-06 |
merry has had her short story, 'Elephants in Eden', accepted by My Weekly magazine. It will be published under the name 'Sarah Stanway'. |
| 14-07-06 |
Nik Perring 'Taste the Difference' was short listed for the annual Dark Jesters anthology |
| 14-07-06 |
Issy was shortlisted in the Leaf Writing for Children competition for
"Pizza Delivery." |
| 13-07-06 |
sazzyjack 's story was picked as one of the winners of Legend Press's Remarkable Everyday 50 Word Competition. It will be printed in their follow up book to The Remarkable Everyday, due to be published in October.
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| 09-07-06 |
Ava 's short story Silly Sally will be published in issue 211 of Bewildering Stories magazine.
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| 09-07-06 |
Sascha 's novel GIRL OVERBOARD will be released May 2007
by Penguin |
| 05-07-06 |
Account Closed 's poem, "Silken", will be published in
Borderlines Magazine in December 2006 |
| 25-06-06 |
Prospero 's story 'Heart's Desire' has been accepted by Bewildering Stories
and is scheduled for early August |
| 02-06-06 |
Cea is one of the shortlisted entrants for the 2006 Debut Dagger competition (run by the Crime Writers' Association} for The House on Fever Street |
| 02-06-06 |
Account Closed novel, "Maloney's Law," has been shortlisted
for the 2006 Harry Bowling Prize (for novels set in London) |
| 28-05-06 |
darrenm s' story 'Louise, I Hang Today' has been accepted by 'Delivered' magazine. |
| 23-05-06 |
Prospero 's story 'Getting the Point' is to be published on June 15th in
Heavy Glow. |
| 22-05-06 |
darrenm 's story 'True Lust Never Dies' is featured in Horror e-zine 'Lost Souls' issue 11. |
| 19-05-06 |
merry 's piece for 'We Like to Eat..' is being published in The Guardian's 'Family' section on Saturday 20 May, under her own name, Teresa Hewitt |
| 14-05-06 |
darrenm 's story 'The Red Garter' has been accepted by Twisted Tongue magazine for issue 3, published in August. |
| 14-05-06 |
merry has had two short stories accepted by the People's Friend, writing under the name Sarah Stanway. |
| 14-05-06 |
Prospero 's stories 'Fire and Water' and 'Cut to the Chase' are to appear on May 22nd in Doorknobs and Body Paint issue # 42. |
| 09-05-06 |
darrenm 's poem 'Mojave' has been accepted by 'The Beat' and is online at www.the-beat.co.uk. |
| 06-05-06 |
Account Closed 's short horror story Amateur Pneumatics will be published in the July 06 issue of Nocturne magazine (American print mag) as Editor's Choice.
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| 04-05-06 |
Account Closed has been offered a three book contract for his trilogy The Arcane Eschaton by a US print publisher. Details will follow. |
| 30-04-06 |
mariaharris has signed with literary agent Peter Cox of Redhammer Management.
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| 29-04-06 |
optimist flash short story, Eye on the Clock, is published in 'Bewildering Stories' 24 April 06
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| 28-04-06 |
Prospero 's mini Sci-Fi piece 'Turf War' has been accepted by Bewildering Stories |
| 24-04-06 |
Account Closed 's short erotic ghost story Half Light House will be published by Scarecrow E-zine. His novella Practical Devil Worship (For All The Family) will be published in chap book format by Twisted Tongue magazine in November 2006
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| 20-04-06 |
Jon Blake 's children's book 'You're A Hero, Daley B' (Walker) has just passed 100,000 worldwide sales, and his new comic novel for juniors, 'Mystery Guest at the House of Fun' is published by Hodder on May 18 |
| 20-04-06 |
Ian Smith 100 iandsmith has a story, Have You Quite Finished? published in Versap's Bent Forms section.
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| 15-04-06 |
Nik Perring 's 'The Story of Molly Wallace' is to appear in the April issue of 'Theatre of Decay.' |
| 15-04-06 |
Prospero 's story 'By the Pricking of my thumbs…' is to be published in the Scottish print magazine Random Acts of Writing |
| 04-04-06 |
Luisa is to be represented by Rosemary Canter at PFD |
| 03-04-06 |
crowspark 's flash Resting Place has been accepted for publication in the next edition of Mytholog. His flash All of Me has been accepted for issue 7 of The Lampshade and his flash Love in a Time of Darkness is in the current edition of Heavy Glow e-zine. |
| 01-04-06 |
JoPo 's High John the Conqueror is coming out in May (Jonathan Cape). Waterstone's Book Quarterly (recent edition) features it in the 'We Love' section (notice by Graham Watson of the Sauchiehall St Glasgow branch). |
| 01-04-06 |
Issy 's "My Eyes Are Sticking Out Of My Head" is published on Smokebox Net. |
| 20-03-06 |
LANGFORD a.k.a Phil Collinge and Andy Lord are the winners of the second series of ITV1s Shoot the Writers (read their writewords interview here) |
| 19-03-06 |
Minxie aka Mairi Craw, author of the reality-based fantasy 'Beyond the
Hedge', will be a guest speaker at Middlesex University's 11th Literary
Festival between 5 and 6pm on 5th April 2006. |
| 19-03-06 |
Minxie aka Mairi Craw, author of the reality-based fantasy 'Beyond the Hedge', will be a guest speaker at Middlesex University's 11th Literary Festival between 5 and 6pm on 5th April 2006. She will be sharing her experiences as a first-time author with the Media and Creative Writing degree course students, with particular emphasis on publication and self-promotion. The other two speakers are Maggie Hamand and Jane Havell of the independent publishing house, Maia Press. |
| 14-03-06 |
Account Closed is having his apocalyptic poem 'The Lowlands' published in the May 06 issue of Twisted Tongue. |
| 14-03-06 |
Issy 's children's story "The Calshot Tug and the Queen Mary" is to be
published by The Calshot Trust as a storybook to help publicise the
renovation of the tug in Southampton Docks. Issy says "I'm deeply indebted to the
wonderful Children's Group on this site for their amazing ideas and
support which breathed life into a story turning a historic event into
something that the Trust members are thrilled with."
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| 09-03-06 |
Mac AM 's collection the night Trotsky came to stay has been short listed for the Cinnamon Press Poetry Book Competition. She is also delighted to have gained a place on the Royal Holloway MA to study with Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott, starting in September 2006.
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| 08-03-06 |
Account Closed 's "Life" has been
shortlisted in the BBC Southern Counties Radio competition and will be recorded for broadcast during the summer 06.
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| 08-03-06 |
Mac AM 's poem Burray appears in iota 73 |
| 27-02-06 |
Ian Smith 100 s story Alien Abduction With Humour appeared on Flashshot |
| 27-02-06 |
optimist 's short story "Vision in Flames" (formerly Love is not Blind) was published on http://www.bewilderingstories.com/ |
| 23-02-06 |
Felmagre 's poetry book 'Linguistic Chunterings' has been published and is available from Amazon. |
| 22-02-06 |
Prospero 's story 'Last Love' is to be published in Doorknobs and BodyPaint issue #41 (February 06). |
| 18-02-06 |
Account Closed 's poems, "For Jean", "Shadow play" and
"View", have just been published in Envoi magazine.
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| 13-02-06 |
Joel 's story "Shopping Crazy" has been accepted for publication in the May issue of the magazine SaucyVox. |
| 11-02-06 |
Ian Smith 100 's Poetry Collection, What You Will See has been published by http://www.gattopublishing.com. |
| 10-02-06 |
Account Closed a.k.a James Bennett’s debut erotic thriller Unrequited to be published by Zumaya Publications (US) early part of 2007. |
| 09-02-06 |
Ian Smith 100 has had his flash fiction piece, Bug Infestation published on Fiction on the Web.
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| 09-02-06 |
Minxie 's 'Beyond the Hedge' was broadcast worldwide in serialized form
on the book lovers' radio station 'Oneword' , read by the
renowned Scottish actor David Rintoul.
There will be another chance to hear the dramatised reading in Spring
2006 when "Beyond the Hedge' will be launched as Oneword's flagship
'podcast'.
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| 09-02-06 |
Account Closed 's poem, "King's Cross, Sundays, 1992-1993", has won the DJST "On Parting" poetry prize and appears in the Feb 06 "Writers' News" magazine. Huge thanks to the Poetry 3
group, who were a huge help in improving it! |
| 03-02-06 |
engldolph 's poem "Star Clawed. Majestic" first worked in Poetry Group I, was selected to be read on a nature diary show on Martha Stewart's Living Radio (USA) after being seen on an e-zine. Author's comment: It is strange where poems end up! :-) |
| 23-01-06 |
Account Closed has had one poem in the top 15 of Leaf Books' "In Love" poetry comp & another in the top 15 of their "Out of Love" comp. Both pieces are on this site: "Can't cook, don't cook" & "Gossamer disconnection". |
| 23-01-06 |
Elsie ’s Woman with exploding head poem has been accepted for Acumen magazine.
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| 13-01-06 |
Ian Smith 100 is been made a Spotlight Author in Eclectica, and has a story in Surprising Stories. |
| 10-01-06 |
Richard Conlon 's Hope Springs will be published by Heinemann in April 06 after he first saw of the opportunity (the publishers were looking for contemporary scripts for young people) on the WW site. |
| 09-01-06 |
Joel 's story Bullseye has been accepted for publication in ID Publishing's next short story anthology, A Route Compendium, out at the start of 2006.
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| 05-01-06 |
SamMorris 's flash called Flotsam is to be published by Flash Me Mag. |
| 04-01-06 |
Prospero 's 'Cherry Ripe' is to be published in the NC17 edition of Hiss Quarterly appearing in February |
