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excellent advice on how to take a great author photo...

There really is a perfect author photo for everyone! 🤣

10 more books to ban! Lol

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This is literally the nicest thing ever..

I feel personally targeted

I read two of my favourite flash fictions this morning at the Arts Festival. Stories of resilience and overcoming obstacles which perfectly fitted the festivals theme of resilience.

Literature explained. Thanks fellow writer Margie Riley for sourcing!

As a writer, our characters take on their own life and sometimes.. sometimes they REALLY TAKE OVER.

This is beautiful.

~ Falcon Girl ~

A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly.

A bar was walked into by the passive voice.

An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening.

Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”

A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite.

Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything.

A question mark walks into a bar?

A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type."

A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud.

A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves.

Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart.

A synonym strolls into a tavern.

At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack.

A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment.

Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor.

A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered.

An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel.

The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known.

A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned a man with a glass eye named Ralph.

The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense.

A dyslexic walks into a bra.

A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines.

An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television getting drunk and smoking ci**rs.

A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.

A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget.

A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony.

I was once told there was no reason to make up or invent monsters. There are plenty already existing.
Point.

This predatory scale worm (Eulagisca gigantean) was found in the Antarctic Ocean at the depth of ~600 meters.

I used to run the Aussie Flash Fiction events and anthology connected to this UK and NZ event.

Congrats to the NZ and UK team for such a sterling effort this year!

For writers interested in checking out some Flash Fiction, here is the details for (I)NFFD - (Inter)National Flash Fiction Day.

FlashFlood
For 24 hours straight starting at 00:01 BST, we’re publishing one flash every 5 to 10 minutes over at NFFD’s online journal, FlashFlood.
http://flashfloodjournal.blogspot.com/

The Write-In
Over at NFFD’s The Write-In, we’re posting a flash prompt every hour on the hour from 00:00 – 24:00 BST on 6 June 2020. You have until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 7 June to submit your responses for a chance of publication.
http://thewrite-in.blogspot.com/

2020 NFFD Anthology Launch
Join us from 7 – 10 pm BST for the 2020 NFFD virtual anthology launch. Readings from the anthology will be posted on our YouTube channel and we’ll be celebrating with chat and virtual toasts on Twitter and our dedicated Facebook event. All welcome!
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCtZRJFCZDE9tJoOXhM4j0-Q

https://m.facebook.com/events/1565263263652251

Flash Feast
We had to cancel our NFFD 2020 live event, so we've brought our celebration online. In our Flash Feast series, we've invited flash superstars Michelle Elvy, Jonathan Cardew, and Nik Perring to share some videos, posts and ideas on the NFFD newsfeed over the course of the day, starting at 10:00 a.m. BST.

https://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/news/

Also, the legendary Jude Higgins is running a NFFD workshop for NFFD from 3:00 - 6:30 p.m. for those who managed to snag a place. Contact her directly to enquire about last-minute places.


Flash Focus
Throughout the day, we’ll introduce you to a few independently-run flash fiction projects carried out by individuals and organisations across the UK. Keep an eye on our newsfeed to find out more about these brilliant projects, starting at 9:00 a.m. BST.


Beyond 6 June...
We’re coordinating with National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand to continue the celebration of flash through the month. Their full programme of events can be found on the NFFD NZ website.

https://nationalflash.org/

We hope you can join us for some of the fun, and wish you a happy (Inter) National Flash Fiction Day 2020, however you choose to celebrate!

mailing address is:
National Flash-Fiction Day
2 Pearce Close
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 9LY
United Kingdom

National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand Because life is short. And so is some of the best fiction.

Yeah.... I don’t know... no one does.

Yeah, we've got no idea

Cool opportunity to enter your script/flash or poetry and see it performed at this pop up theatre company.
Entries open today.
See post for full details.

UPUT IS CALLING ALL WRITERS!

WRITE A MONOLOGUE OR DUOLOGUE FOR US FOR A CHANCE TO SEE IT PERFORMED LIVE!

In today’s ever changing society norms and rules, theatre is changing too. More and more opportunities to see theatre and art are becoming more “Live” stream via platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Zoom. That is why we want YOU to write about what’s going on in the world with Coronavirus and the Quarantine. It can be funny, dramatic, serious, whatever these 2 words make you feel.

If you choose to write a monologue then you will just have one character (actor) speaking from start to finish.

If you choose to write a duologue then you’ll have two characters (actors) speaking.

You’re in control, you’re the writer and the director, you get to make up your character or characters (there are no limits – a teenager? A President? A… pigeon?), you imagine their personality and their motivation and their quirks. You know that they have something to tell us and you choose where and when (any place, any period – maybe something you’ve studied in history will start you off).

The subject can be anything that makes you excited - funny, sad, dark, bizarre - funny and sad and dark and bizarre? And even though we want the pieces to be vivid and powerful that doesn’t mean they have to be melodramatic. Quiet can be powerful too. You choose.

RULES

The contest opens on April 15, 2020 and entries must be submitted by email to [email protected] by midnight on 30th April 2020. We will pick the best 6 and they will be performed LIVE via Zoom May 2, 2020.

You can write on your own or in collaboration with someone else.

The monologue and duologue should be no longer than 1000 words (and that includes directions etc.)

Feel free to make your entry shorter – even much shorter - if you’d like to.

Please include your name and contact info on each page submitted.

Spreading the love of words

Pen-demic - Hunter Writers Centre A writing contest for HWC members and Heart Open community to send poems and stories. Poems, stories, opinion pieces, rants, scripts and more welcome

Interesting reference for writers searching for authentic names.

https://matadornetwork.com/read/popular-last-name-every-country-world-means/

The most popular last name in every country in the world, and what they mean What exactly is the “Smith” of Luxembourg?

writer advice from Tolkien

Procrastination, Tolkien Style.

It may be December, but plans are already underway for the biggest and best National Flash Fiction Day yet, and they have some exciting announcements.

Save the date!
The gang are celebrating NFFD 2020 on Saturday, 6 June 2020 at The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry with their anthology launch and a series of events. Keep an eye on the website for further information.

Anthology and Microfiction submissions are now open!
They are accepting submissions for the 2020 NFFD Anthology and for the Microfiction Competition from 1 December 2019 to 15 February 2020.

For the anthology, they are looking for stories of up to 500 words on the theme of ‘family’. (Creative, unusual and/or unconventional interpretations are most welcome.)

For the competition, they welcome pieces up to 100 words on any theme.

Please read their Anthology Submission Guidelines and Microfiction Competition Guidelines for full details. ( see link below)

Award Nominations

They would love everything we publish at NFFD and wish that they could nominate it all for every award. However, organisations like Best Small Fictions, Best Microfictions, BIFFY and the Pushcart Prize require that they pick only a few.

2020 Anthology Editors
They are thrilled that Sophie van Llewyn is joining Ingrid Jendrzejewski as the guest editor of the 2020 NFFD Anthology this year. Read more about Sophie on the website , and stay tuned for an interview with Sophie in the new year.

2020 Microfiction Judges
This year’s Microfiction Competition will be judged by Susmita Bhattacharya, FJ Morris, Anne Summerfield and Rob Walton. You can read about them also on the website and they will be posting interviews with each of them over the coming weeks on the NFFD blog.

Happy Writing, all! Wishing you a lovely, productive holiday season, and looking forward to reading your anthology and competition submissions….

https://nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/anthology/anthology-submission-guidelines/

Anthology Submission Guidelines National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Submission Guidelines Submissions for our 2020 anthology and microfiction competition are open from 1 December 2019 to 15 February 2020. Submissions are open fo…

Great review of a book of essays and insights on one of the dark periods in Qld politics.

Contributions by many fellow QLD writers - put it in your Chrissy list!

Edwina Shaw and team congrats!

https://www.facebook.com/588443632/posts/10157646025018633?sfns=mo

From under Joh’s boots They say you should never forget where you came from. Maybe add this: never forget what happened there. Those of us who lived through the regime of a certain Queensland premier have those years indelibly printed not only on our memory but on our psyche.

A zip round Writers Block

Word to the wise on NaNoWriMo

Wishing all my writer mates a brilliant NaNoWrMo!!! You got this !

Reasons to befriend a writer

Someone mention cake?

Ahhh yes! Even better if you wrote that line.

Teaching mates, bookish folk.. looking for quality childrens / YA books which sensitivity and honestly portray characters with a range of mental disorders to all types of disabilities? I've just found a curated list to share.

https://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/resources/books/

IRIS | Children’s Books: Portrayals of People with Disabilities Curated in conjunction with Mary Anne Prater, the author or co-author of seven books and dozens of academic journal articles on teaching students with developmental difficulties as well as special and general education topics, this search tool contains information and synopses of children’s and yo...

At last! Accurately titled books for your “to read list”

What sort of writer are you?

I have only my phone until this little guy falls asleep, so if someone could transcribe this, that would be awesome.

It looks like someone found a source:

https://mobile.twitter.com/cheyannealepka/status/1127622119381196800?s=19

Todays giggle

Literary Historians Uncover Collection Of Breezy, Upbeat Edgar Allan Poe Writings Penned After Author Took Up Jogging BOSTON—In a discovery shedding light on the famous macabre author’s less-acknowledged qualities, literary historians at Harvard University unearthed Wednesday dozens of uplifting poems and breezy short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe later in his life after he got into the habit of jogging. ...

My dog is practicing her author shots

The Big issue has opened submissions for their annual fiction edition. Free to submit!!

Submissions are now open for the 2019 Fiction Edition of The Big Issue Submissions are now open for The Big Issue Fiction Edition 2019! You could be a part of one of the biggest-selling fiction magazines in ...

Are you an author?

I feel seriously understood rn