Writer: Ignite Fellow 2023 @scottishbktrust, CW tutor @OxfordConted. Words, prizes in sundry places. Sailor. Swimmer. Former animator.
SW Scotland
Joined March 2008
- Tweets3.3K
- Following3.6K
- Followers3.5K
- Likes18.6K
Pinned Tweet
Crazy-happy my odd little octopus flash won the @NewWriters_UK 2024 prize! 🐙 🥂🌞
Many thanks @tiredpsych for your lovely words – and big congrats to fellow prize winners @janeannedugdale + Twig Firth + all short and longlisters! WOO-HOO! @atwbyrne @jupiterjonz @biddablesheep
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
Congrats to our Flash Fiction Competition finalists! Beatriz Sasse for ‘Where white pebbles dream’, Gail Anderson @smallgreenberd for ‘Parenthetical’, and Margaux Vialleron @MargauxVlln for ‘The story of the woman with cold hands’! 🙌
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
Wonderful to see the return of @matchbooklitmag after their hiatus. This story from @GabeDurham is a peach (or a pumpkin or an artichoke) - "For my first three Halloweens I was a pumpkin. When the following year I got to choose, I asked to be a butternut squash."
"For my first three Halloweens I was a pumpkin. When the following year I got to choose, I asked to be a butternut squash."
New fiction by @GabeDurham
Gabe was our first work published in 2009, so it's only fitting he's the first for our relaunch.
matchbooklitmag.com/mb/durha…
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
There is now a SELF-LED version of my popular Psychology of Character for Writers online course.
Same resources and immediate access to work through by yourself.
Low fee with access till Feb 2025.
✍️ 🧠 1/2
Why is non-recyclable plastic food packaging even allowed? Bad on me for not noticing when I ordered this — but honestly? Why is @waitrose, which positions itself as welfare-friendly, using *any* packaging that can’t be recycled/composted? #ecofriendly #Sustainability
A Clyde Christmas-morning still life: PS Waverley mug and coffee roasted at Tighnabruaich. Wishing all a very happy day! 🎄⚓️🌟🐬
@PS_Waverley @ArgyllCoffee @Geraldos_Largs
A charity bookshop manager told me they pulp most donations of gardening/flower books, bc they don't sell ('people go online now') – but a pressing in 'Wildflowers: How to Know Them' (1933) tells of a walker, a slim book in a pocket, a discovery and a memory preserved.
Don't you love it when you find things inside second-hand books? This wildflowers book doubled as a flower press. Is there a word for 'ephemera found inside old books'? #ephemera #junkjournal
Happy to have been shortlisted again! Keep on keepin' on, everyone! ❤️✍️🌟
The word is out on our Flash Fiction, Poetry, Short Story and Novel Award winners! ✨
Head to bridportprize.org.uk/results… to see our 2023 results. Congrats to all who made the list!🎉
Big thanks to our judges, partners and everyone who entered. ❤️ #BridportPrizeResults #AmWriting
PLS RT: Flash fiction folk – don't miss yr chance at a large cash prize, and a seriously fun group of folks to party with in Edinburgh! < 3 weeks left to polish and send your work. Good luck! 🏆🌟✍️ #flashfiction #amwriting #WritingCommmunity @ScotStoryAwards @scottishbktrust
£2,000 Edinburgh Award for Flash Fiction. For writers everywhere and stories up to 250 words. Publication offer to top twenty. Deadline 31 August. Enter now at scottishartstrust.org #flashfiction #shortstories #writer #cashprize @scotstoryawards @ShortStoryComps #stories
This very handsome annual arrived this morning with one of my stories in (!) brightening a dreich day here in SW Scotland. Having been out all morning getting drenched, I'm looking forward to staying in, curling up and reading cover to cover. @scotlit bit.ly/nws-41
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
It can be hard to keep track of all the stories flying by during the FlashFlood, so we've compiled the whole 2023 line-up into one big list so you can more easily find anything you've missed....
flashfloodjournal.blogspot.c…
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
❝To the Nail Polish Manufacturer, I am writing to express my deepest disappointment in your nail polish entitled, “So Many Clowns.”❞
So Many Clowns by K.B. Carle
The Weekly Flash Fiction fivesouth.net/post/so-many-c…
Gail Anderson 🦜 retweeted
Wigtown Book Town is 25 today 🎉🙌
Wigtown rapidly filled with bookshops; dedicated booksellers taking the risk alongside the community to revive Wigtown through books.
Learn about Wigtown's bookshops at wigtown-booktown.com
Thrilled with an acceptance in New Writing Scotland, Issue 41, due out this summer. Thank you, @scotlit !
#amwriting #WritingCommunity
75 prize-winning flash fictions (+ a first-line index and listing of competitions) – an INCREDIBLE resource for writers and readers – AND profits (£1600 and counting) go to #fuelpoverty charities! Don't let the tank run dry - order yours now!
Thanks @taniahershman & authors ❤️🌟
This Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more