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A successful short story is not an easy thing to achieve - but done right, it can be a short, sharp gem that you'll treasure forever. In this section, you can discover more about the genre and find some advice for writing flash fiction.
Flash fiction
If you have not met flash fiction before, you are in for
a treat. If you have, here is yet another attempt to define it, to pin down
this most slippery of beasts. And because I am a writer, I’ll define it like
this:
Imagine standing at the open door of a room where all is in darkness, …
Have you entered the W&A Short Story Competition 2013?
Writers & Artists and Liars’ League team up to celebrate the winners of the Writers & Artists Short Story Competition 2013
Judged by Tania Hershman
Date: Tuesday 26th March
Time: Drinks at 6pm and talk at 6.30pm
Place: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP
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Is writing for video games as creative as scriptwriting?
The games industry has long held an
aspiration to keep pace with film, moving beyond an emphasis on graphic realism
to developing more compelling storylines and characters to underpin the action,
so I read with interest Are Computer Games a Literary Genre? at the Guardian Mortarboard …
Risky Business
In this article, author Tani Hershman discusses how, through reading other writers' work, she first came across the gift of permission - and how letting others inspire you to take risks in your own work can transform your writing.
I've got something to give you. Something I remember …
Short stories and poems - what's the point?
I
am often contacted by authors who are writing short stories, and want to know
what their chances of getting published are. There is good news and bad news.
The bad news is that most publishers will only publish short stories if you are an established author. Even the most well-known …