Sylvia Petter's Blog, page 11

My reading in Café Fichtl, Floridsdorf, Vienna

On Wednesday, 29 October, I had my first reading in German in alocal venue just up the road, Café Fichtl. I used to go there in 2006 for a coffee… more

Time to move on

Dear All,

Blogger has served me well but it's time to move on to a place where everything is under one roof. All posts have migrated to the blog at my revamped website and new posts will appear there. Thanks for having been here and do come on over to my new place and have a look around.

Allbest,
Sylvia

Coming out of the fog

Literatur im Nebel (Fog-lit?) has been held every year for nine years now in the tiny town of Heidenreichstein in Austria´s Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The town has a population… more

Coming out of the fog

Literatur im Nebel (Fog-lit?) has been held every year for nine years now in the tiny town of Heidenreichstein in Austria´s Waldviertel in Lower Austria. The town has a population of about 4,000 and is about 15 Km from the Czech border. It´s been around since about the 12thCentury and apart from an old castle and a nature reserve has little claim to fame except for the wonderful almost secret lit-fest tip, Literatur im Nebel, which I discovered for the first time on the September 27/28 weeken...

Back to the writing board

I´m still in conference budget mode but am getting out a bit. And I am writing! A flash called “Kone” which was accepted by Micro Fiction Monday for its issue… more

Back to the writing board

I´m still in conference budget mode but am getting out a bit. And I am writing! A flash called "Kone" which was accepted by Micro Fiction Monday for its issue #14 will be dissected in Flash Frontier for Christmas. So that will be exciting!

I´ve been scrivening my opus which now has a new tentative title: The Panopticon. I have an opening chapter up at Read Wave here and another here. Extracts from two more chapters appear in issue #7 of Jotters United. So grateful for the feedback received on...

New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan

New Sun Rising: Stories for Japan is an anthology of stories, flash fiction, poems, haibun, haiku and artwork and photography donated by over 60 creators from all over the world… more

Austr(al)ia

Austr(al)ia is a German-language limited edition anthology of short prose and short stories by five Australian writers and seven Austrian writers. Each contribution is accompanied by the respective author’s “take”… more

Geflimmer der Vergangenheit

Geflimmer der Vergangenheit is a collection of 21 stories drawn from my collections, The Past Present, Back Burning and Mercury Blobs, and translated into German by Eberhard Hain, Chemnitz. The… more

Consuming the Muse

Consuming the Muse contains seventeen stories. Several have appeared in anthologies, in print and online journals, and as mobile downloads from Ether Books. Also included are ten pieces of wonderful… more