The Real Sting: Bumblebee Contest Longlist
The Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest: short and sweet stories with a sting. The real sting, though, is choosing between so many excellent entries. The editors […]
Month: February 2017
Welcome to the Writers’ Café and Centre Stage. Be Prolific, Publish Often, Get Paid.
One of the many reasons we began publishing our literary quarterly Pulp Literature was that there were very few magazines that paid, and many that […]
The Pop-Up Writing Space
We most likely have, each of us, a dedicated writing office space of one kind or another. Here, seated or standing at our own desk, we often […]
The Bumblebee Closes Tomorrow!
In between your chocolates and champagne, don’t forget to send in your sweet and fizzy short stories to the Bumblebee contest, which closes tomorrow at […]
In Praise of Stationery
Maybe it’s the same for you, author: I love stationery stores. Once inside, there comes over me a feeling of pleasant expectancy mixed with the urge to guard […]
Using the Lag to Become Superb
A brilliant and successful writer once told me, “All writers secretly wish they were musicians or baseball players.” I don’t know whether that’s as true […]