The Australian Haiku Society invites haiku poets from all over the world to contribute to their online 'AHS Winter Solstice Haiku String 2024'. Max 3 unpublished haiku/senryu, theme 'winter warmth'. Full details: 👇🏽
I think, especially with everything that is going on in the world today, we can all do with this wonderful song by Nick Lowe.
He's currently on tour in the US.
Voice recognition mistake of the day: “Not everyone realizes that your brain can be a weapon against corporate muffins.”
I stumbled trying to pronounce malfeasance.
Celebrating a paradoxical 11/10 rating of my story The Last Philosopher by Spookyspackles on RoyalRoad 🥳
But who knows what could have been if I had only given 120% instead of the standard 110% 😂
Anyway, the story is free to read, links can be found on my profile, thanks and sorry 😁
The #JaneAusten Literacy Foundation is asking the public to vote on the short story compeition! There are three finalists. Voting ends at midnight GMT (7 pm EST) in TWO DAYS (june 21)!
Eight years ago, a woman named Laurene asked writer Richard Kelly Kemick to finish her late husband's novel, a book he had planned to finish upon retirement from his career as a surveyor, but never got the chance. Out of embarrassment and naivety, Kemick accepted. "The hard part was already over —the labour of birthing an idea — and all I had to do was towel it off and spank a bit of life into it," he writes for The Walrus.
Here's more on his efforts to finish a dead man's novel and what he learned along the way. "The briefcase novel has taught me nothing about writing; it hasn’t taught me how to sculpt a sentence, how to develop character, not even how to craft a sex scene (from the notebook titled “Personalities”: “They made love, and she died.”). But the briefcase novel, and the surveyor who made it, has taught me everything about being a writer," he concludes.
Registration for #JASNA AGM opens TODAY! This year, the theme is “Austen, Annotated: #JaneAusten's literary, political, and culturual origins." The event is held in Cleveland, OH on October 18-20.
Every fictional story exists in its own imaginary world because at least some of the events and people it describes didn't actually happen or exist. Novelist Patrick Nathan writes for LitHub about creating universes, layering fiction with texture, and navigating a novel's world.
The #JaneAusten Literacy Foundation is asking the public to vote on the short story compeition! There are three finalists. Voting ends at midnight GMT (7 pm EST) on June 21.