Cook Your Own Stories
Literary Diet, the final dayTomorrow it won't be January any more, which feels rather abrupt. But there are still a few hours left of the month in which The Guardian…
King Lear Prizes
The new national creative arts competition for over 70s stuck at home because of Coronavirus Here's a little about the prizes copied from their site and followed by a link…
Writer Opps: 2020 Short Story Contests
Aerogramme Writers' Studio is one of my favourite resources for writers, and I have a link to their site on my Resources for Writers page. But I'm flagging them up…
Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: Tom-Gallon Award
If you've been writing short-stories for long enough to have at least one published, you'll have discovered there's very little money for those of us who favour the genre. So…
Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: Wigtown Festival Company’s Mentoring Scheme.
I don't know about you, but I tend to be much more productive if I've got someone to disappoint. I still miss university for that reason, I need someone who…
Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: From Lit Mags to Japan
Writer Opps Wednesday aims to bring you six fresh, juicy opportunities each Wednesday. This week we have, 1) a two week residency in Japan for artists of any discipline; 2)…
Literature Ambassador: Writer Opps: The Write Practice
Writer Opps Wednesday aims to bring you six new opportunities each week. But occasionally something comes to our attention that deserves a post all of its own, and that has…
Literature Ambassador: Writerly Development
Part of my role as one of Wigtown Festival Company's Literature Ambassadors is to support writers in Dumfries & Galloway. One of the ways I do that is by searching…