National Flash Fiction Day Flash Flood
Reading Time: < 1 minute FlashFlood is a flash fiction journal edited by a team of volunteer editors on behalf of National Flash Fiction DayContinue Reading
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran: Book Review
Reading Time: 3 minutes A Memoir of Masturbation, Menstruation and Music How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran I used to think CaitlinContinue Reading
National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology: Long list announced
Reading Time: < 1 minute I read on Nat’s blog that she’d submitted a couple of stories for the National Flash-Fiction Day Anthology so IContinue Reading
Freaks! by Caroline Smailes and Nik Perring
Reading Time: 2 minutes She’s a busy girl, that Caroline Smailes. Her novel, 99 Reasons Why, was released last month and now she’s gotContinue Reading
99 Reasons Why by Caroline Smailes
Reading Time: 3 minutes 99 Reasons Why by Caroline Smailes doesn’t have an ending. It has 9 of them. To choose your ending onContinue Reading
I’m a first class soon-to-be-published poet
Reading Time: 2 minutes My OU tutor hated my poems. She didn’t actually say she hated them, but the mark I got gave meContinue Reading
Suicide is Painless
Reading Time: < 1 minute Well, it is when it’s your characters doing it on the page, anyway. We had a workshop in our fictionContinue Reading
Wouldn’t it be good if I was in a book?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Caroline Smailes (author of In Search of Adam, Like Bees to Honey, and the soon-to-be-published 99 Reasons Why [which isContinue Reading
A funky raw short story
Reading Time: 2 minutes You may remember my short story I Can See Through People was read out last year at a White Rabbit’s Are YouContinue Reading
Words/phrases/cliches that annoy me
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m sure there’s more, but these will do for now. Anyone want to add anything? 1. Sleeps (i.e. ‘3 sleepsContinue Reading