Bit late in telling you all about this one but my latest writing success has now been published in the Writers’ News section of the current edition (Feb 2013) of Writing Magazine.
My short story, Suspicion, won the 1000-Word Competition in the top UK writing magazine. I was well pleased. Thanks to all who have read it and given such positive feedback.
Link to purchase February 2013 edition of Writing Magazine.
Cheers.
Nick
A few weeks back, I told how I’d won the Darker Times Fiction competition for October with my short story, The Original Mandlebury Ghost Hunt. That and another tale, Table Decoration, are both now available in the Darker Times Anthology – Volume One.
Darker Times Fiction run monthly competitions and you can find them here.
Darker Times Anthology – Volume One, is available to buy on Amazon in both print and Kindle edition.
Link to purchase print version from Amazon.
Link to Kindle edition. Downloadable from Amazon for £1.00
Cheers.
Nick
I was delighted to receive an email to say I’d won the Darker Times Fiction, monthly competition for October. I entered two pieces and my story – The Original Mandlebury Ghost Hunt won first prize and the other, Table Decoration, was one of the runners-up.
Both will be in a soon to be released anthology and are available now online on the Darker Times Fiction website.
Darker Times Fiction is run by Jessica Grace Coleman, an author based in Staffordshire, England. It’s excellent. Go and check it out and enter the monthly competition, yourself.
Link to my winning entry – The Original Mandlebury Ghost Hunt.
Link to my runner up – Table Decoration.
Note … Table Decoration is of a very dark nature. Be warned.
Darker Times Fiction can be found at this link.
Cheers.
Nick
I have been interviewed by writer, Rebeccah Giltrow, the result of which can be found on her excellent site. So, if you want to hear what I have to say about my works and writing, in general – read on here.
Link to ‘Rebeccah Writes,’ and my interview.
Cheers.
Nick
Back in June, I relayed the news that I had won the Walsall Writers’ Circle, Non-Fiction competition. My article on autism, The Invisible Nation, is now in print in the Autumn 2012 (Vol 45. No 4) edition of Blackcountryman Magazine.
Also in the same issue is a piece I wrote on the ghosts of local, Haden Hill House and Hall.
Magazine available at various outlets in the Black Country and also from this link.
Cheers.
Nick
I have an article in an anthology which is released this Friday. You Are Here by Earlyworks Press is a collection of prize winning journalism and memoir.
Yes, that’s me on the front cover, bottom right, sitting in front of a grave.
My piece: An Endangered Species – The Death of the Struggling Writer is about the constant hurdles faced by beleaguered writers as they try in vain to get their voices heard.
You Are Here can be bought by clicking this link. Or if you know me, just ask and I’ll get one for you.
Cheers.
Nick
Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord, was a research project looking at ways men have been involved in childbirth and I was delighted to take part in an aspect of this a while back. My poem, Successful Parenting – Chapter One was published in the poetry pamphlet below.
This pamphlet sold out very quick but can still be found as a free download from researcher, Laura King’s excellent site if you wish to read it. I’m on page 8.
As part of the project, I took part in an appearance at the Coventry Mysteries Festival in June and a full audio podcast of the poetry event can be found at the same link. I start at 2min45sec but you have to ignore the drumming in the background by another event who totally gatecrashed the moment.
Because of that drumming, my piece only got an extract once it had stopped in the short film produced for the project. You get about ten seconds but I am there at about 7min7secs into the film and this film can also be viewed by clicking the link below.
It was a great project to take part in and I am grateful to have had the opportunity. I only wish the publishers had printed more copies so people could still buy one. Oh well.
Link to Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord – Pamphlet download, film and podcast.
Cheers.
Nick
My short story – View from the Bedroom Window has been published in new magazine – The Alarmist. Now when I say magazine, I should really say, book. Over 100 pages of pure quality. But don’t be fooled into thinking you have yet another arty-farty literary publication. Unlike many about who speak from the rear orifice as opposed to word of mouth, The Alarmist does the job properly. I am a great believer in the thought that if you have nothing to say, don’t say it. The Alarmist has plenty to say. Long may it continue. It’s a great mag, it has me in it and also, any magazine with balloon poetry, can’t be bad.
The Alarmist can be bought by clicking this link.
Cheers.
Nick
Last Thursday, I had the great honour to be named winner of the Walsall Writers’ Circle 2012 Non-Fiction Competition. The fact that all of the entries read out at the meeting were of a hugely impressive standard, makes this award all the more pleasing. Here I am with judges, John Lester and Stuart Williams, being presented with trophy which I get to keep for a year until the 2013 competition.
Walsall Writers’ Circle is an honest, friendly group and I recommend anybody in the locality with an interest in writing, to give it a go. My winning piece – The Invisible Nation, an article on autism, can be found in the Autumn 2012 edition of Blackcountryman Magazine and still on the Walsall Writers’ Circle website, if you scroll down the page.
Cheers.
Nick
This Saturday – 16 June, I shall be reading my latest poem at the Coventry Mysteries Festival during the launch of a new poetry pamphlet in which my poem is included. Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord is published by Nine Arches Press and I shall give details how to get it as soon as I know.
All poems will be on display in a marquee in Broadgate, Coventry from 10am till 4pm and poetry readings are between 12 and 1pm.
Cheers.
Nick
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