Pick of the day
This poem is called GLOSS
Posted by purplelionness on Sun, 13 Oct 2024
I returned home , the place of my birth
Story of the week
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day
Posted by HarryC on Fri, 11 Oct 2024
Another extract from the final draft (still in progress) of my memoir of my time as my mother's full-time carer at the end of her life.Read more
Poem of the week
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Posted by airyfairy.
Amongst some thoroughly absorbing reads this week, two stood out for me from the moment I read them.
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Our Story and Poem of the Month for September - very kindly chosen by onemorething:
Picks of the Month for September:
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Bloody Scotland - Update!
As you know, our very own celticman - Jack O'Donnell - was star of the show at Bloody Scotland which is Scotland's International Crime Writing Festival. Here's what happened in his own words:
Bloody Scotland, 14th September 2024
Read moreMr Martinez by Ewan Lawrie - Out Now!
I'm very pleased to announce that Ewan Lawrie's new novel, Mr Martinez has just been published!
You can order it here on Amazon:
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Read morePosting From Your Android Phone - Fixed!
Some of you have been having issues with posting your work using an android phone. Ewan and John our techie have been working really hard to fix this.
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Picks of the Month
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HALF PAST THE MONKEY'S MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
Posted by Mitchell Jamal ... on Thu, 19 Sep 2024
The first in a Time-Travel collection that imagines the most disruptive technology of all. Digging up the past to judge our predecessors is nothing new. A hardboiled detective undertakes an...
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