Www.sablelitmag.org. Introduction | Inscribe. As well as being the ‘Home of the Best in Caribbean and Black British writing,’ Peepal Tree Press is also home to Inscribe, the successful professional writer development programme run by co-directors Kadija George and Dorothea Smartt. With its roots in Peepal Tree’s practice of editorial development, Inscribe began as a project to develop specific writers of African and Asian descent in Yorkshire. We have now been given a remit from Arts Council England to take this model nationally.
We will be working with eight partners across the country to deliver various elements of the Inscribe Model to each one. We look forward to collaborating with: ID on Tyne (Newcastle)Cultureword; (Manchester)The Drum, (Birmingham)Writing East Midlands, (Leicester)New Writing South (Brighton)City Chameleon – with associated Black writing groups e.g. Our Stories Make Waves and Bristol Black Writers (Bristol)Spread The Word (London)SABLE Creative Enterprise (London / International) Like this: Like Loading... Online Competitions | Drawing Contest | Painting Competition | Essay Competition 2012 | Online Contests | International Writing Competitions. Drag it Out: How to Use Extended Metaphors for Maximum Effect. I love metaphors, and I find them useful in all facets of my life as a way to understand new concepts by comparing them to familiar concepts.
Take my work history, for instance. In my early post-college days, I worked as a nanny for a family with three young boys. My days were spent running around making sure everyone was where they were supposed to be, had what they needed, and was doing what they were supposed to be doing. My next job had me working as an administrative assistant at a shipyard, supporting an office of 40 men. My days were spent running around making sure everyone was where they were supposed to be, had what they needed, and was doing what they were supposed to be doing.
I often told people I went from babysitting three little boys to babysitting forty big boys. The environments were entirely different (for one, I never had to wear a hard hat while I was a nanny) but overall, my role as caretaker to the people I worked with wasn’t much different. Or A Master at Work.
MyHogwarts BETA. Avoirdupois. Share Your Writing - free publishing, free stories, free poems, free novels. National Association of Writers in Education :: 2013 Christopher Tower Poetry Competition. About a little thing called 750 Words. Arvon foundation | arvon. Danwilson. Creative Briefs: The Poet. Are you a brilliant poet looking for a platform to get your words out to the world?
If so, this brief has your name scribbled all over it. We’ve joined forces with clinic, the super cool poetry, art and music collective and producers of “London’s sickest poetry night” (Dazed & Confused) to offer two IdeasTap members an unmissable opportunity. As one of two winners, not only will you will have a poem published in clinic’s summer poetry anthology, you will also get to develop your literary dexterity in a poetry workshop led by poet Jack Underwood and you will have the chance to perform at the clinic anthology launch party. Three runners up will also join in the workshop, which is taking place on 21 April at IdeasTap HQ in London. To be in the running, just upload two poems of no more than 200 words to your IdeasTap portfolio and link to them in the summary box when you apply.
And the best poets will win. Simples. Image: Alphabet miso by revbean on a CC BY-NC 2.0 license. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. TRY THE NEW VERSION FOR PC - Ommwriter. Jacket 35 - Early 2008 - Keston Sutherland: «Hot White Andy», reviewed by John Wilkinson. The Internet address of this page is This review is about 6 printed pages long. It is copyright © John Wilkinson and Jacket magazine 2008. This is how Keston Sutherland’s long poem Hot White Andy begins, and this is where my reading must begin, with this new sound in poetry: Lavrov and the Stock Wizard levitate over to the blackened dogmatic catwalk and you eat them. Now swapbuy for eat, then fuck for buy, then ruminate for fuck, phlegmophrenic, want to go to the windfarm,Your • kids menu lips swinging in the Cathex-Wizz monoplex;Your • face lifting triple its age in Wuhan die-cut peel lids; ng pick Your out the reregulated loner PAT to to screw white chocolate to the bone.
This continues; the end-break is introduced so as to provide a sample sufficient for useful commentary. What is the status of ‘ng’? Not only is the chosen passage open to interpretation, but it deploys elaborate contrivances of poetic artifice. Keston Sutherland - Hot White Andy - Part A: Turbo - 4/4. Keston Sutherland - Hot White Andy - Part A: Turbo - 3/4. Keston Sutherland - Hot White Andy - Part B - 2/4.
Keston Sutherland - Hot White Andy - Part A - 1/4. I've uploaded this hug, I hope she gets it. Writer's guide to the criminal underworld. Parsley by Rita Dove. Neil Gaiman’s Free Short Stories. James Benmore. James Benmore was born in Kent and currently lives in South-East London. He studied literature at the Open University and has since completed an Mst in Creative Writing from Oxford University. His first novel, Dodger, follows the story of Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. It was awarded the AM Heath prize for fiction in 2010 (for best work of fiction by a graduating student of Kellogg College, Oxford), and was published by Heron in 2013.
(For more about Dodger, see 'On our Blog', below.) He is represented by Jon Elek at AP Watt. Publications with The Fiction Desk 'Jaggers & Crown' in All These Little Worlds On our blog External links. Twimagination - Short Stories and Poems Online. Read or Submit stories and poetry on Twitter! About the short review: reviews, news and interviews. The short review brings you original reviews of new, not-quite-so-new and classic collections and anthologies, written by reviewers many of whom are also short story writers themselves and who love short fiction.
To ensure some measure of objectivity, we ask that none of our reviewers review the work of an author or publisher that they have any connection to (at least at the time of writing the review). We also try and interview as many of the authors we review as possible. On the Links page are links to competitions for short story collections and other things we think you might like. And we blog about all things short story- and short story collection-related! Why? I love short stories. So I thought I would create a space just for short story collections and anthologies, to give them their turn in the spotlight.
Ok, I have to confess – my motives are not entirely pure. Tania Founding Editor, The Short Review TaniaHershman.com Like this: Like Loading... Gold Dust - writers' mentoring, UK. Tania Hershman on Flash Fiction. London Library Student Prize. PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for entries to The London Library Student Prize 2013 has now passed. A big thank you to all those who entered the competition. Our panel of judges will be reading the entries over the coming months and the winner and runners-up will be announced in April 2013. 1. Consider the theme and get writing! The theme of the prize is ‘GAP YEARS: A NEW FORM OF COLONIALISM.’ Before writing your piece, please read our Entry Guidelines. 2.
Your full-length entry (no more than 800 words) must submitted by midnight on 11th January 2013. Before you enter, please read the Terms and Conditions thoroughly, as entry into the prize constitutes agreement to the Terms and Conditions. To enter, please answer all compulsory questions below. Please ensure your entry has been typed in a text document (Microsoft Word or equivalent). The first page of all entries must be clearly labeled with your: Full name Email address Postal address Telephone number University and degree title 3. 4. ArtsLink - The Leicestershire and Rutland directory of creative services in the community. Creative Briefs: Editor's Brief: Greed. The fat of the land has been spanked across the cheek and is wobbling like a plump new jelly.
From big-cheese bonuses to plucked turkeys, the season of indulgence has begun in hot, buttered earnest. Whether you’re rolling in dough or just scraping by, we could all do with a little December treat. Which is where we come in. This month’s Editor’s Brief is on the theme of greed. You can interpret it any way you like: the world is your oyster and the pie’s the limit. As always, this is a multi-disciplinary brief; that means you can respond with anything you like, be it poetry, prose, animation, video, photography, illustration etc. The person who submits the best piece of work will win £250 and become part of our IdeasTap alumni.
The work can be in any discipline you like, but it must relate to the theme. Members can only apply once. Your single entry is limited to: • Audio and video – no longer than two minutes • Text – no longer than 1,000 words • Images/photos – no more than two 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Setting up WriteMonkey on WordPress | ben.hamilton.id.au. This post has been written using [WriteMonkey]( “Zenware for full screen distraction free writing”) as the text editor. Not only that but I’ve utilised Markdown as the method of text mark-up. All of this has been achieved using WordPress as my CMS, Firefox as my browser and a Firefox plug-in called It’s All Text. My first impressions are actually good. Although its taken a little setup, I’m actually happy with the result. You see, using WriteMonkey as a text editor is, well, gorgeous. The screen is emptied of all distractions. Now to get this to work I did the following: + [disabled the visual editor]( “Article by Chris Coyier on blogging in WordPress with Markdown”) in [WordPress]( “The official WordPress site”), + installed the [It's All Text]( Not so hard is it?
National Short Story Day. Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories. 33 writers. 5 designers. 6-word science fiction. Page 1 of 1 We'll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn. ") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves. Dozens of our favorite auteurs put their words to paper, and five master graphic designers took them to the drawing board.
Sure, Arthur C. Failed SAT. Computer, did we bring batteries? Vacuum collision. Gown removed carelessly. Automobile warranty expires. Machine. Longed for him. His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant! From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings. - Gregory Maguire Internet “wakes up?” With bloody hands, I say good-bye. - Frank Miller Wasted day. “Cellar?” Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. - Vernor Vinge It cost too much, staying human. - Bruce Sterling We kissed. It’s behind you! I’m your future, child. 1940: Young Hitler! I’m dead. Easy. 25 Things Writers Should Know About Social Media. 1. The Devil’s Trident Social media has three essential prongs of activity: broadcast, rebroadcast, conversation.
This is true for everybody, not just writers, but it’s worth noting just the same. I say something or repeat something someone else said (broadcast/rebroadcast), and from that social seed-bed, conversation may arise. 2. Be The Best Version Of Yourself Writers and other creative-types often seem to believe that they need to become someone different online, that they cannot be themselves lest they not find a publisher, not get work, not sell their book, not collect sexy groupies, etc. 3. You are not a brand. 4. Put the “social” in “social media.” 5. Having a blog, website, or online space where you establish an authorial “base camp” is a great thing. 6. Find different uses for different social media. 7. Writers are content creators, and so it behooves us to share what we love. 8. The Internet is like hot dogs: it’s made of lips and assholes. 9. Connection, not conflict. 10. 11.