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News from the editor:

May's ABCtales magazine (Issue 8) out now

The May issue of ABCtales Magazine is now available as a free download, featuring the WilkyBarKid's personal selection of the best new writing from ABCtales.com for the past two months:
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Spack's Debut Novel is met with acclaim

Joe Dunthorne, our very own spack (http://www.abctales.com/user/spack) from ABCtales, has had his debut novel Submarine published by Hamish Hamilton and it has met with some great reviews.
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A NEW Guideline!

In a bid to get more comments on our writers' work it has been requested that as a general rule we try and put a comment on the work of someone else for every story or poem that we post.
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Books for Kenya - to celebrate 15,000 members

We recently passed the 15,000 member mark here on ABCtales and the 15,000th member was one Rachel Mbulwa Mang'eli, who works in a children's library in Mombassa.
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Stories and Poems not in English

I'm sorry to say that we cannot accept stories or poems in languages other than English.
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