Marching into March
OK, it is now May. I started this post in March, but before I knew it, May was upon me - and April must have made a brief appearance...
Frolicking through February
Helen Laycock's month-by-month suggested submission opportunities for writers.
Jumping into January
After a very quiet December (no Writing News post... shhh!) and a fairly quiet 2017, I started 2018 with a spurt of writing energy! I...
November's Submission and Publication opportunities
Have you noticed that you can save posts on Facebook? I now have quite a stash of writing-related opportunities stored in my sidebar....
October 2017
A quiet month for subs... I did spend a week at the Cheltenham Literature Festival (again!). It's a wonderful event, with a host of great...
September 2017
All writers experience that dry period where they feel they have nothing left to say (Oh... just me?), so it's great to have a little...
August 2017
Writing in August took something of a back seat. Instead of putting pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, I put bum to seat and was...
July 2017
Submitting to Visual Verse has become something of a monthly compulsion; I think it's to do with the challenge. It's never an easy image...
June 2017
At the beginning of the month, I received an invitation to submit to Bare Fiction, a literary magazine which provides a platform for...
May 2017
Last year, I had a go at playwriting. I submitted a short to Pint-Sized Plays, and was delighted when I was longlisted and then...