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Dog Days of Summer 2010 competition winners announced

Flasher extraordinaire Michael J Solender (of Not From Here, Are You? fame) has announced the winner of his Dog Days of Summer 2010 competition. Future Nostalgic's Sam Adamson took out the Grand Prize, while yours truly was one of a number of authors who received a Special Jury Prize. Congrats to all the Special Mention recipients and the other nearly 100 writers who participated.

You can read more about it here, including an interview with the winner. The eChapbook, including my story...

Release date set for Eve's Harvest

It's been a long road to publication for Eve's Harvest, the first fiction anthology from Odyssey Books, the publishers of Lip Magazine. I have a short story ('The Dan Experience') in the anthology and am so looking forward to seeing it published alongside some of Canberra (and Australia's) finest emerging writers.

The antho will be published on 19 September, with the launch date yet to be announced. I will post details here closer to the date.

Launch date set for Eve's Harvest

It's been a long road to publication for Eve's Harvest, the first fiction anthology from Odyssey Books, the publishers of Lip Magazine. I have a short story ('The Dan Experience') in the anthology and am so looking forward to seeing it published alongside some of Canberra (and Australia's) finest emerging writers.

The antho will be launched in Canberra on 19 September. I will post details here closer to the date.

Drum roll please…Best of Friday Flash Vol 1 out now!

While it's always a real thrill to have a story included in an anthology, the release of Best of Friday Flash Volume One is a an absolute pleasure. The #fridayflash movement on Twitter – the brainchild of JM Strother – was where I got my start in writing. I had recently signed up to Twitter (under the moniker Cascade Lily – after my first blog Cascade) and was trying to get my head around what it was all about and why I should bother. I happened across the #fridayflash hashtag and decided to ...

In the CW confessional

Head on over to the Chinese Whisperings site, where I'm in the confessional, discussing how I came to be involved in the project and what it's meant for me.

Even the pros need some love

Last night I finished reading a fantastic book on writing – Will Write for Shoes – by novelist Cathy Yardley. While it's primarily about chick lit, it was Cathy's fabulous advice about plotting, as well as her easily understandable references to the hard-to-read Story by Robert McKee, that really helped me find a pathway out of the writing funk into which I have sunk over the past two months.

I find I am all 'flashed' out and need the challenge of longer, more meaningful fiction. While I knew ...

Flash!

It's been a long wait, but Flash! has been published by Static Movement and contains my story 'Willpower'. You can buy the flash fiction anthology from Amazon.

Writing exercise: Sunday Best

After a little break from writing, brought on by story exhaustion after churning out a new piece of flash fiction every week for more than six months, I have been inspired to pick up the pen (or start tapping my keyboard again) by a) a deadline and b) a cool little writing exercise devised by Jodi Cleghorn at Write Anything.

I am not very good at narrative writing (my strong suit is dialogue), so this 10-line exercise was great in making me sit down and give it a go. I've recorded it on

Chinese Whisperings: Paul Servini

Paul Servini had the daunting task of being the first writer in the Yang book of the Chinese Whisperings anthology. Read his reflections on the writing process here.

The joys of working with an editor…or two

With sweaty palms and a knotted stomach, I turned in the first draft of my Chinese Whisperings story last week. Experiencing  typical writer's angst about whether the story would be up to snuff, I waited with great trepidation for my editor's comments. With two series in the anthology, there are two editors – Paul and Jodi – whom I mentioned in my previous post. Paul is my editor and I am so happy to be working with him. There's nothing like a good editor to lift your story from being good...