It’s great to have CM Taylor back on the blog on publication day for his new novel, Staying On. I was lucky enough to read an advance copy of this and I stayed up half the night to find out what would happen. It’s a funny and very moving (I cried!) story of a family that needs to face [...]
Thanks to everyone that sent in stories for this. Rose and I have really enjoyed reading them all. We have got 10 shortlisted stories, detailed below, and now Rose will read them all again to choose the four winners. Well done to everyone on the list. Shortlisted stories All The Pieces by Jennifer [...]
Sorry to be so late with this… life has been busy! But here now are the winners. Well done to all. Really looking forward to flashing with these talented writers. Our two winners get a free place and our two runners-up get a half price place on the October Fantastic Flashing Course. There are [...]
Themed Flash Competition: Reunion Winners I’ve been reading the shortlist over and over again on different days, at different times, when I’m in different moods, seeing so much in all of them that made me dither over the runners-up repeatedly. But my top spot was never in any doubt from [...]
Reunions themed flash comp longlist Many thanks to all the writers that submitted. We received 67 entries this time and there were some very interesting takes on the reunion theme! We’ve read them all now and we have decided on our longlist. Longlist (alphabetical order) A Brush With Danger [...]