Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Flash, bang, wallop!


It's all go here at Broken Biro Towers!

After a dry spell in terms of acceptances while I hunkered down to finish the novel and play (I mean I was writing a play, not playing!) I suddenly have developments to support on several fronts:-

FLASH!

I've been short-listed for a Flash Fiction Competition run by Liverpool's Writing on the Wall literary festival and the final's tonight!

BANG!

I'm in the final of the Chorlton Art Festival Flash Fiction Competition next Wednesday!

WALLOP!

Last night I won a place in the final of Pulp Idol - a competition for unpublished novels, also run by Writing on the Wall. Just getting to the final means my first chapter will be published alongside other finalists and sent to agents and publishers! PLUS I got to chat with experienced published writers like the host Cath Bore, and judges novelist Caroline Smailes and crime-writer Dave Jackson. It was especially nice that the other finalist from my heat is none other than Dave Hartley from Manchester's Flashtag collective - who are doing all sorts of whacky things in Manchester today for National Flash Fiction Day!

If you head over to that last website you can find out if there's anything going on in your area and perhaps read some super short stories!

p.s. ... and I haven't even mentioned what's happening with my play, and that 80's band thing... but BBC breakfast TV this morning might give you a clue...

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13 comments:

  1. Vicus Scurra16 May 2012 at 07:49

    Excellent.

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  2. Martin16 May 2012 at 08:16

    BBC breakfast TV? You're not taking the place of Sian Williams, are you?

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  3. Christopher16 May 2012 at 11:38

    As my grandfather, a man as given to alliteration as to Hilbrë, used to say (and have printed on his private Christmas cards) 'From full endeavour follows a flowering of life'. I'd like to think of you repeating this with a mouthful of popcorn.

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  4. Frances Garrood16 May 2012 at 17:13

    Well done! After the drought, the flood (like the weather)!

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    1. broken biro17 May 2012 at 15:00

      Thanks... and I wonder which lady blogger's novel I got for my birthday?... and I ask that in dead earnest... ;-)

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  5. Dave17 May 2012 at 09:05

    Isn't life exciting?

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    1. broken biro17 May 2012 at 15:01

      Excited? Moi??? *romps around the room in giddy circles with stupid grin on face *

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  6. MsCaroline18 May 2012 at 07:42

    Congratulations, and, as my teenage sons would say, "You ROCK!"

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  7. Annie (Lady M) x20 May 2012 at 19:16

    Woo hoo! That is awesome news ..... congratulations. Well deserved in my opinion ;-)

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  8. Anonymous5 June 2012 at 16:47

    Thank you for the lovely mention! I've got a gorgeous photo of you, the two Davids and Caroline from your Pulp Idol heat if you want it? Just email me cathbore@gmail.com

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    1. broken biro5 June 2012 at 16:56

      You're welcome Cath! That would be nice - I'll email!

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