| 15-12-09 |
 nessiec has been shortlisted for the Manchester Children's Book Awards 2010 and longlisted for the Lancashire Children' Book Awards. She's also signed a 2 book deal with Frances Lincoln |
| 13-11-09 |
Beanie Baby 's poem "PAGE TURNER" recently appeared in The Daily Mail. |
| 11-11-09 |
Dreamer , Choille, and V'yonne of the writewords Flash Fiction group have each won a prize in this year's MicroHorror Competion, scooping 50% of the prizes between them! |
| 21-10-09 |
Nik Perring has had two stories, Pacifier and Two Old Women Birdwatching in My Garden published in Metazen; The Angel in The Car Park published at Rainy City Stories; When You're Frightened Honey, Think of Strawberries published at Ink, Sweat and Tears and Number 14 published at Tomlit Quarterly. |
| 06-10-09 |
nessiec has been shortlisted for the NASEN/TES awards. Winners announced at
a ceremony in London on 15th October, special guest Anne Fine. |
| 01-10-09 |
V`yonne had a story comissioned for an anthology which is now out and is once again in the Quarterly Review at Bewildering Stories. |
| 01-09-09 |
Beanie Baby 's two poems “Reading’s Cool” and “Fond Farewell” have been accepted for inclusion in two separate anthologies. |
| 04-08-09 |
RJH 's 10-minute play, Anger Management for Dogs, is one of the winners of this year's Pint-Sized Plays competition |
| 17-07-09 |
nessiec 's 'Zelah Green: Queen of Clean' is longlisted for the Manchester Children's
Book Award. Shorlist to be announced in December. |
| 06-07-09 |
titania177 is the Grand prize winner of the 2009 Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition with her flash story, My Mother was an Upright Piano. |
| 30-06-09 |
V`yonne has had two anthology acceptances - and The Binnacle 6th Ultra Short edition for 2009 and MIND 2009 antholgy. Once more she has an inclusion in Bewildering Stories' Quarterly Review. |
| 30-06-09 |
Account Closed 's short story, Taking Fists for Hadley, is being published in the magazine First Edition on 9 July 2009. |
| 20-05-09 |
tiger_bright has a column in Issue 25 of Foto8 Magazine about the wartime experiences of her mother and grandparents who were interned by the Japanese in North Borneo. Radio 4's Woman's Hour editor, Nicola Swords, called the article "lovely and very poignant" |
| 09-05-09 |
RJH 's 15-minute sitcom, Coffin Dodgers, has been selected for a staged reading organised by Sitcom Saturday at Westminster Reference Library on 30 May. |
| 13-04-09 |
Nik Perring 's Lists has been published at Dogmatika
and his Watching, Listening has been published by 3: AM |
| 07-04-09 |
titania177 (Tania Hershman) has been commended in the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers for her short story collection, The White Road and Other Stories. |
| 01-04-09 |
Nik Perring 's The Boy Who Wished He Was a Cloud, by Nik Perring has been published by Lit Up
and The Angel in The Car Park, also by Nik has been published at Rainy City Stories |
| 31-03-09 |
V`yonne has a story published in Clockwise Cat |
| 24-02-09 |
optimist 's short story, Duncan Grave in the Sun and Moon, was published in Bewildering Stories. |
| 12-01-09 |
Stefland and nessiec have both had their books: Changeling and Zelah Green Queen of Clean shortlisted for the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2009. |
| 09-01-09 |
Nik Perring 's An Unhappy Man has been published at Six Sentences and his 'Pieces of Us' has been published by The Pygmy Giant |
