3. Feb 2016
Thure Etzold
Posts from year 2016
Judging Event, short story competition 2016
Local author Deborah Meyler announced the winners of this year's competition themed 'The Seven Deadly Sins'. All winning stories were read by the authors who perhaps for the first time ever were all present.
The Seven Sins
14. Sep 2016
Thure Etzold
Thure Etzold
The short stories are by Huguette Chatterton, Will Tate, Les Brookes, Catherine Campbell, Catherine Brierley and Angela Wray.
Bringing philosophers to life
24. Sep 2016
Harry Goode
Harry Goode
The idea for my project came to me when I read about the attempts that Plato made to persuade Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to adopt a better form of government. He continued to attempt this with the tyrant’s son, also called Dionysius, when he succeeded his father. There was also a homo-erotic affair between Plato and Dion, a relative of the tyrants. I thought this would make good longish short story. In fact it grew into a novella of 22,000 words, and I felt that in the course of telling the story I had explained something of Plato’s philosophy.
Submission schedules for 2017
22. Dec 2016
Tim Love
Tim Love
With all the competition deadlines and magazine submission windows around nowadays, it helps to plan ahead. Here are some suggestions for the first half of 2017
