In the last short while I have submitted several short pieces to these contests: Whispered Words, Geist Postcard , Writers’ Union of Canada flash fiction and Canada Writes short memoir competition. Short short short. What a relief. A few days and it’s...
In my writing community there’s a buzz about the upcoming Whispered Words Anthology prose competition. I’ve entered stories for their last two years’ competitions with disheartening results. (Although one story that didn’t make it through the first tier judging found...
One hears the anecdotes about famous authors who had been rejected twenty-seven times before being accepted by one daring publisher, only to have their work become a classic, or sell a zillion copies. But after a piece has seen rejection a couple of times, the patina...
>This past week I put together what stories I have written that aren’t already out asking to be published and sent them off. I found one online contest at Author Stand that is free to enter, and is judged in part by readers. To that contest I sent “Bird in...
> Maybe it isn’t such a good idea to take a writing holiday, or I should say a holiday from writing. I have begun to feel as if my novel is complete, that the work is done, and my characters are off on their not-so-merry ways living their own lives without my...
