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Whittling the entries down to just 12 was no mean feat, but these represent the very best of an excellent (and bumper) year of entries....
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Developing your craft
You've been writing for a while and nearly have a full draft of a manuscript, or a collection of finished shorter pieces of work, under your belt.
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8th December 2020
The Results Are In!
Congratulations to the winners of the Arvon short story competition 2012.
The judges have whittled down the...
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Woman Much Missed by Helen Patuck
There was nothing extraordinary about the young man who walked out of
the town department store at midday,...
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The Lady Next Door by Sarah Deacon
Sunlight streams through the fanlight at the top of the front door. In one pane, some imperfection in the old...
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Inspired by the 2011 England Riots
White van man cuts me up at the lights, so I give him the finger. It belongs to the owner of...
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8th December 2020
Novelist Rebecca Abrams once told me that the reason that men loved puns and women couldn’t see the point of them was because women’s...