Submissions open for our Spring event
Our next Story Sunday is March 19th
The theme is Another Country.
Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.

Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.

While we’re on a break from our Story Sunday programme, there’s been plenty going on. We’ve had a guest night, the launch of a new enterprise and soon you’ll have the chance to pick up some pre-Christmas bargains. A fitting end to a pretty eventful year. Guest night From time to time we replace our…
from Jenni O’Connor What an evening. What a week. What a year. As anyone who has been following this blog will know, the road to publication of Unchained was long and fairly tortuous, but – happily – culminated in a fantastic, packed-out launch event which made it all worthwhile. But behind the scenes, many of…
This latest update is quite an exciting one. The DI Crow series is currently going through a revision, and Her Last Chance, The Killing Ground and A Fatal Pact will be back on Amazon over the coming weeks, in collaboration with a fantastic Bristol-based publisher, Malago Press. It’s great to see my favourite detective published…
Writers travelling in search of better health and producing novels and journals in the process, loom quite large in English literature. There was D H Lawrence moving restlessly around the Med and roosting in the New Mexican desert, Katherine Mansfield enduring misery in the south of France, and poor Keats dragging himself to Rome – all seeking the magic cure for TB.
Today novelist and short story writer Nina Milton gives us the first in a series of posts on the fictional form that is the backbone of the Unchained anthology. “During the hour of perusal the soul of the reader is at the writer’s control.” Edgar Allan Poe, writing in the 1830’s in his usual, Gothic…
On Saturday October 11th, we are joining our good friends Southville Writers for a local author showcase in Foyles Cabot Circus to celebrate the ‘Books are my Bag’ day which encourages us all to use our bookshops more. The event will start at 2 pm and go on until 7 pm, so do pop in if…