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New Micro Artsexhibitions
Geoff Davis, founder Story Software, also founded Micro Arts Group for computer and digital art. They’ve had two exhibitions recently, 2021 LRB Depot Leicester, 2022 British Computer Society, Moorgate, London.
Ivy Ngeow has written some of the How to Write material we use on here and the Top Writing Courses site. She won the Proverse (Hong Kong) international prize for her first novel Cry of the Flying Rhino, and her new novel Heart of Glass is out in a week! Very exciting. See her video trailer for this book here:
I have started a new novel that has a Botz robot brand, so I started some websites to promote the general idea. There is a Botz.tech site for news, and a Botzrobots.com site for apps and games.
Once the book is finished I’ll update with images from the book, downloads of extracts etc.
Everyone who has subscribed will get a free peek before official release, I’ll do a mail out about that in the next weeks.
Did you know National Flash-Fiction Day is 25th June 2016? Get writing!
I wrote my first Flash Fiction in my head while in the dentist’s chair, and wrote it up on my phone the next day. With the costs of dentists and phones, I suppose that is the expensive way to do it.
These are the competitions coming up in the Spring. I will do more later in the year. Some are for ‘chap-books’ which are not for chaps only, and the lengths vary from 100 to 500 words. So check out what suits for you.
There are lots, which is great news for writers. They even have cash prizes!
500 words.
4 entries per year – 31st March, 30th June, 30th September and 31st December.
Winners notified by email within six weeks of closing dates.
This is ‘open-themed’ but winners last year were crime, crash disaster, child abuse – so Crime related.
This is not the usual ‘conflict’ (seen as too long-winded) but ‘after effects’ I suppose. I think 500 words is huge, why focus only on ‘magic moments’?
Newfoundland Prize (US)
Deadline: 15 April 2016 – EXTENDED, 15 March 2016
The Newfoundland Prose Prize for a chapbook-length (chapter-sized only) work of fiction or creative non-fiction.
Long story or essay, collection of short pieces to 60 pages maximum. 15 pages is lowest allowed.
Some aspect of the work must “inform or explore how place shapes identity, imagination, and understanding”.