Welcome to Post-weekend Poetry and the ninety-sixth poem in this series. This week’s piece is by poet and organiser of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, Dave Lewis. Langors Cold lake and waterfowl sunshine through mist, silence, on the water leaning back on my canoe – wind push, reed-woven – the swans heavy in the swell. … Continue reading Post-weekend Poetry 096: Langors by Dave Lewis
Welcome to Post-weekend Poetry and the thirty-fifth poem in this series. This week’s piece is by poet and organiser of the International Welsh Poetry Competition Dave Lewis. Hospital bed and he is strangely alone without a change of clothes or suitcase on holiday with a drip for company stares at the rain of the outside … Continue reading Post-weekend Poetry 035: Hospital bed by Dave Lewis
Due to other commitments (client editing, my writing, competition judging, Writers’ Forum column etc., I’m not currently taking any guest spots but will update this page when I am Also: online poetry writing group:http://poetrywritinggroup.wordpress.com and linked Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/388850977875934 The guidelines are below but email me if you have any queries… your poem (150 lines max) – can be already … Continue reading Poetry
Due to other commitments (client editing, my writing, competition judging, Writers’ Forum column etc., I’m not currently taking any guest posts but will update this page when I am. If you’ve been a guest on another WordPress site, then feel free to email me the link and I’ll gladly reblog it. Below is a list … Continue reading Contributors
Complementing my interviews, today’s Author Spotlight, the four hundred and twelfth, is of debut novelist Dave Riese. If you would like to take part in an author spotlight, take a look at author-spotlights. Born in 1946, Dave Riese grew up in Arlington, Massachusetts, graduating from Arlington High School in 1964. He attended Bates College in … Continue reading Author Spotlight no.412 – debut novelist David Riese
I no longer review your books. Sorry about that but… if you do book reviews of other authors’ books and would like to share them on this blog, please read the guidelines below then email me. PLEASE NOTE: As well as a writer, I am also an editor and because this is a writing (as well as reading) blog, my … Continue reading Book & Story Reviews
Welcome to the four hundred and twenty-sixth of my blog interviews with novelists, poets, short story authors, biographers, agents, publishers and more. Today’s is with children’s faery tale, fantasy and horror author Ian S Rutter. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. If you like what you read, please do go … Continue reading Author interview no.426 with children’s faery tale, fantasy and horror writer Ian S Rutter
Below is a list of some writing competitions by closing date then by regularity, followed by competition websites. If you find any of the information out of date, I’d be very grateful if you would email me. I would always recommend you checking for the current guidelines before writing something to suit in case anything has changed since … Continue reading Competitions
I have listed a few recommended blogs on the Blogroll (side menu) and lots of info on the Competitions Calendar and Submission info. pages of this blog but here are some other sites you might like (alphabetical order within their section). I’m obviously not responsible for their content but have found them useful in the past… and of course … Continue reading Links
Welcome to the fifty-seventh of my blog interviews with novelists, short story authors, poets, directors, bloggers, scriptwriters, autobiographers and more. Today’s is with horror / science-fiction author Stuart Hughes. If you like what you read, please do go and investigate the author further. A list of interviewees (blogged and scheduled) can be found here. Morgen: Hello Stuart. … Continue reading Author interview no.57 with horror / sci-fi / fantasy writer Stuart Hughes
Morgen 'with an E' Bailey 