Time to strap on those writing wings and take flight!
Please jump over to our submissions page and take a look.
Thanks to Suzanne McConaghy for her thoughts on our recent Story Sunday event and her tips for reading online. I was delighted to be asked to submit a thousand words for ‘Story Sunday’ at the Bristol Festival of Literature. I started writing in a flurry of enthusiasm and found I’d produced something fairly bleak –…
Since I finally ‘came out’ as a crime writer last spring, with the publication of Her Last Chance, the first in the DI Crow crime thriller series, the questions I’ve been asked most by those who know me is, ‘Where did the urge to write crime come from?’ usually followed by ‘What on earth goes on in your head?’ After all, once I yank my leopard print shopping trolley out of the cupboard and head off to the local supermarket, the only crime-busting hero I remotely resemble is Miss Marple.
While we rub our hands and gloat over a very tasty bag of submissions for our next event, here’s Gail’s snapshot of Stokes Croft Writers’ carefully managed assault on the genteel cobbles of Bath. It was a steamy hot summer night on the not-so-mean streets of Bath, when a motley crew of Bristol writers came…
A lot of books are published every year. In fact the UK publishes more books per capita than any other country. So from an author’s point of view, no matter how good your work is, its success will depend entirely on whether it gets noticed. I’ve been in Writers Unchained for a few years now,…
Stardate: October 24th …. Out of this world – or just plain blinding. You’ll have to excuse the cliches while we say a massive thanks to everyone who made last night’s Twilight Zone an absolutely stunning experience. Most of all to our amazing writers who each brought a unique and contribution to the SF/spec-fic genre every…