By Heather Sellers I have found the rule of three to be incredibly helpful when I’m building scenes. There are just three parts to a powerful scene—…Write More Powerful Scenes with the Rule of Three
Written in the white heat of the MA - massive thanks to Jupiter Jones for keeping me writing and embracing the dragon. It went through a few re-writes (change of tense and title as I recall). The brilliant Lindz McLeod then said it was ready and suggested some places for it to go and I … Continue reading Short story: There’s always a dragon
Delighted to have a flash published by Roi Fainéant Press recently. It's a v cool online magazine. Link here: https://roifaineantarchive.wixsite.com/rf-arc-hive/post/not-like-the-movies-by-jac-morris
Creating Neither Fish Nor Fowl has been an absolute blast and now we are almost ready to receive visitors (well, your words anyhow). Here's our first newsletter with all the details. Open for submissions via Duotrope on 15th June 2024. Enjoy, subscribe, submit (or you know, just have a read. It's got interesting facts about … Continue reading Neither Fish Nor Foul – one week to go
My flash story Grief Is A Thing with Claws won second place in the Spring 2024 Propelling Pencil Charity Competition. You can read it and the other placed stories below. Very chuffed, given I know the calibre of the other entrants, the readers and the judge. Also feels like a lesson in not giving up … Continue reading The Propelling Pencil – Second Place
Although there are many, many online literary magazines for short stories and flash fiction I still often feel as if there aren’t many I want to read or where my work will find a home. What to do but start one? I’m so lucky to have found @judepickledplum who says an emphatic Yes! to everything … Continue reading Neither Fish Nor Foul
Ever since I started writing I’ve read Pushcart Nominated short form writers and thought ‘what’s that, then?’ and wondered if I’d ever, could I ever …? A Pushcart Nomination means a small press has selected your work (they put up to six pieces forward a year) which means many writers are nominated but few are … Continue reading Pushcart Nominated
Our first Story of the Year 2024 is about a quest, a journey in a narrowboat over days and months, meeting a cat and people known and unknown along …Story of the Month, January 2024
I finally got onto BlueSky. I like it. I like the font, I like the people. It’s very quiet there so I’m still on the App Formerly Known as Twitter but I don’t miss the faux leather/chrome accessories feel of the place. Janice Leagra, editor in chief of Janus Literary (amongst many other things - … Continue reading Nothing but Blue Skies
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