Contest

If you’re a regular around here you’ll know that I periodically post a bit of free fiction under the Friday Flash banner. Friday Flash is the brainchild of J M Strother. His idea was that every friday people post a piece of flash fiction (1,000 words or less) on their websites and share said...
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Necroscope is the zombie-specific sub-blog of Horrorscope, the Australian Dark Fiction blog, described thusly: NecroScope is the official zombie review subsite of Horrorscope (the award-winning news and literary criticism zine dedicated to dark fiction). Necroscope deals specifically with all things related to zombies, revenants, and the walking dead, whether in fiction, non-fiction, cinema, comics,...
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I’m prepared to bet that the above title has never been seen by humans before. And it takes a dude like Jason Fischer to make that happen. Jason is a good friend of mine, a top notch writer, a Writers Of The Future winner, no less, and a master of puns. His novella, Gravesend,...
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For the first time ever I entered a story in the Writers Of The Future competition. The thing takes a fair while to turn around, with entries going into a quarterly judging period. Winners of each quarter battle it out at the end of the year. My first effort just scored me an Honourable...
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My duel winning story from House Of Horror has been added to the Dark Shorts page. Use the button on the left or this is a direct link to the story. It’s a little under 1,500 words and Friday Flash stuff is supposed to be 1,000 words or less, but I thought I’d mention...
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You may remember a few days ago I blogged about suddenly having a deadline to write a 1,500 word story for a writer duel over at House Of Horror. The theme was “something written on a tombstone”. I put together my story, my opponent has written his and now they’re both up for the...
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Kate Forsyth’s new young adult fantasy novel, The Puzzle Ring, is a story rich in faerie lore, set in the wilds of Scotland. You can read my review of the book here. As part of her blog tour, I talked to Kate about the book, the process of writing it and her hopes for...
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Yep, here I go asking you guys for votes again. You may remember that Editor Unleashed and Smashwords ran a flash fiction contest a little while ago. The initial round of voting was by popular vote through the Editor Unleashed forum and then an editorial decision was made. My story “Parklife” won a place...
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My second book, MageSign, is listed in the Preditors & Editors Readers Polls honouring print & electronic publications published during 2009. If you could spare a moment (and if you’ve read and enjoyed the book, naturally) I would love your vote. You have to find it on the list, click the button, add your...
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I recently entered a writing contest over at Scribe’s Writing Desk. The direction was to write a piece of flash fiction (under 500 words) using three of the following words: murder, mystery, fire, gates, cat, warlord, gold, dwarf, planet, ship Just to be a smartarse I entered a whacky little yarn using all ten...
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