October 2016
I have recently come across The Emma Press ('small press, big dreams'). What is different about them is that rather than charge a...
September 2016
Every year I enter the Adult Fairy Story Competition run by Writing Magazine, and have been shortlisted once or twice. It's a great genre...
August 2016
A few years back, I submitted one of my children's books to The Chicken House. It almost got published... almost! At the final hurdle, it...
July 2016
The One Word Challenge is a monthly competition which takes place on Writers Talkback, the online writing forum run by Writing Magazine....
June 2016
This month, the second of my (true) funny poems was published on Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis. This one is called Tackling the...
May 2016
Two competitions writing for children this month, both for Writing Magazine: a story called 'Over the Moon'; a Christmas poem called...