Writers\' Forum - 04.2020

STORY COMP practise it, it will make the diference between two per cent and ninety per cent success. In all things, there is yin ...

42 INSPIRATION I have been working on two major projects recently and as I near the end of both I’ve been thinking about the ver ...

STORY COMP know... constrained. Yes OK, OK, no need to get antsy. I’ll look at your skeleton now. What? You want me to read it o ...

STORY COMP opportunities, getting clean. The mechanics of what Liam really did with his time were a mystery to him. ‘I’ve touche ...

45 STORY COMP see why not. She wasn’t normally worried by heights. She’d been adamant, though. If they’d wanted to go up the thi ...

STORY COMP M alcolm Todd’s story Tritos of Penthene Asks his Question of the God Amunoun in the Camel-boat is a masterclass in c ...

47 STORY COMP Writers’FORUM #222 Fools rush in. No, no I’m sorry. Ow! Please don’t do that! Later, when she has yet again antago ...

T his month I’d like to cover humour in stories. I don’t only want to talk about funny tales but how to use humour in stories th ...

Trudy arrives to tell him he has fi nally been granted a transfer. ‘Good news, Walter. Your three months are up and there’s a sm ...

BRAINSTORM T he rules for this month’s poetry competition are as follows: ■Your poem must have three stanzas – no more and no le ...

a shoe, an electron, a colour, a mood, a cloud or a musical note and do the same I am... and I am not... exercises from that per ...

POETRY £100 winner The Wound Ashleigh Symms, Alloa, Clackmannanshire Two old fabric recliners sit side-by-side, the blue arms wo ...

Pine Richard Hughes, Llanmaes, South Glamorgan A collection tin, thin as a beggar’s bowl hammered in below the stripped bark. Va ...

Literary Consultant Friendly, professional support for writers. Karol Griffiths Editor & Writing Coach. Years of Experience ...

FESTIVALS Ullapool Book Festival 8-10 May The 16th Ullapool Festival is a showcase for not just Highland writers but writers fro ...

BOOK PUBLISHING Authors invited to submit manuscripts all categories including poetry New Authors welcome A.H. STOCKWELL LTD, De ...

The Poet’s Toolkit, London 11 May – 20 July This practical course considers the poem as a fl ying machine and explores its inner ...

I t’s interesting that I immediately know what you mean by a ‘feminine’ book, despite the changing cultural attitudes towards se ...

‘We have an overwhelming cultural bias that is against women, and is against the domestic. And we don’t question that cultural b ...

I write thrillers for young adults, suitable for age 11 upwards. My irst book, Lying about Last Summer was selected for the WHSm ...