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RAZAMATAZZ: July 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 7 July 2014. An Earthless Melting Pot. What a beautiful cover! Delighted to be part of this:. Another volume of prize-winning short stories from the. BIGGER Short Story Competition 2013 is released . Judged by David Haviland (fiction agent for the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency), Polly Courtney (author of Feral Youth) and Susan Jane Gilman (author of The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street), this second collection displays the talents of another up-and-coming group of new writers.
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RAZAMATAZZ: August 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 25 August 2014. RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2014. Writing news is trickling in at a slower pace these days as I'm sending out fewer stories and trying to concentrate on my next novel. But one competition I did enter was the RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2014 and I was delighted to hear that my story, The Bugaboo, was on the longlist. I was longlisted in 2013 too and wrote this piece for writing.ie. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. The Fj...
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RAZAMATAZZ: June 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 16 June 2014. Short Story: What Happened to Us by Dan Chaon. What Happened to Us. The Spring 2014 edition of Ploughshares Literary Magazine. Joseph’s mother's comment, ‘How long does it take to get over something like that? Rusty does talk to Joseph about his past at one stage:. 8216;Do you know what would happen if a kid like you got sent to a foster home? 8216;No.’ And Joseph breathed as Rusty’s eyes held him, without blinking. 8216;After he got drunk, Joseph’s father ...
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RAZAMATAZZ: RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 25 August 2014. RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2014. Writing news is trickling in at a slower pace these days as I'm sending out fewer stories and trying to concentrate on my next novel. But one competition I did enter was the RTE Guide/Penguin Ireland Short Story Competition 2014 and I was delighted to hear that my story, The Bugaboo, was on the longlist. I was longlisted in 2013 too and wrote this piece for writing.ie. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. The Fj...
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RAZAMATAZZ: February 2015
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Live Create. Enjoy. Friday, 27 February 2015. Shortlisted ICB short story competition. Good news from the International Club of Bordeaux: My story 'Well Done' has been shortlisted in their 1st Annual Short Story Competition, judged by Amanda Hodgkinson. And I'm delighted that my fellow Writing Group member, Jane Cooper, is shortlisted too with 'The Competition.' Congratulations to the winners in each category. Looking forward to reading all the shortlisted stories and the winners in the forthcoming e-book.
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RAZAMATAZZ: August 2015
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Live Create. Enjoy. Saturday, 15 August 2015. Generation by Paula McGrath. Congratulations to my sister, Paula McGrath. On the publication of her debut novel, Generation, published by JM Originals. I’ve had the privilege of reading raw first drafts of most of these stories some time ago and watched them slowly evolve into the beautiful novel that was launched last week in the Gutter Bookshop. In Cow's Lane, Dublin. Source: hodder.co.uk. Launched by Lia Mills. Was there to say a few words on behalf of edi...
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RAZAMATAZZ: December 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 1 December 2014. My short story 'No Such Thing' appears in Issue 3 (December 2014) of The Incubator. Another great literary journal, featuring writing from Northern Ireland and Ireland. Have a browse; the pdf version is free to download. I've enjoyed 'Sparta' by Heather Richardson and look forward to reading the rest when I receive my hard copy. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Eavan Boland: Inside history launch. A great sta...
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RAZAMATAZZ: July 2015
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Live Create. Enjoy. Saturday, 18 July 2015. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Go Set a Watchman. Back to back this week. Was a delight to experience again after all these years. Having discovered, and accepted, that. Is neither a prequel nor a sequel (It's the first draft of the same novel - a draft that was rejected) I relaxed into Reese Witherspoon's southern accent and tried to enjoy it for what it was. As a reader it's a mediocre book. And his original draft ' Stephen Hero.
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RAZAMATAZZ: The Incubator Journal
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Live Create. Enjoy. Monday, 1 December 2014. My short story 'No Such Thing' appears in Issue 3 (December 2014) of The Incubator. Another great literary journal, featuring writing from Northern Ireland and Ireland. Have a browse; the pdf version is free to download. I've enjoyed 'Sparta' by Heather Richardson and look forward to reading the rest when I receive my hard copy. Follow my blog with Bloglovin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Eavan Boland: Inside history launch.
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RAZAMATAZZ: February 2014
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Live Create. Enjoy. Sunday, 23 February 2014. Words with JAM Runner-up. Words with JAM, the ezine for writers and publishers, announced the results of its Bigger Short Story Competition. This week. I was delighted that my story 'Trumpet Dreams' was a runner-up in the Shortest Story Category (max 250 words) judged by Susan Jane Gilman. A prize of £10 and inclusion in the anthology is a welcome result. Thank you to the judges and to Words with JAM for running this competition again this year. Short story: ...