Hi everyone It’s time to join me and some very special guests for the launch of this year’s Hysteria Writing Competition anthology, Hysteria 10. When: Monday 18th December 7pm GMT Where: Online I’ll reveal the overall winners for each of the three categories; Poetry, Flash Fiction and Short Story and each winning entries will be…
Hysteria 2023 closed at the end of August and it has taken some time, more than usual, to get to the point of announcing the shortlist. To everyone who entered, well done; the reading team were impressed by everything they read. But of course, there do have to be winners and this year I’m pleased…
Here we are already in August. The five months of my time as writer-in-residence got the Hysteria Writing Competition have flown by. Personally, it has been a tricky time as I was fairly immobile at first, gradually regaining some pain free movement after experiencing two collapsed vertebrae in March.
It’s July. The weeks fly by towards the deadline of 31st. August. Maybe your first draft, or even the second, is sitting on a shelf gestating after the initial creative flush. Good.
Genius = 1% inspiration + 99%perspiration That seems a reasonable division. One small seed of inspiration plus a lot of toil and sweat to expand and develop that seed, hone it into a satisfying piece of writing. But how to find that seed which can grow, the spark which keeps the pen moving, the fingers…
What is the first thing that springs to mind when we hear the word? For me it is a conjuror – card tricks, disappearing members of the audience, assistants sawn in half. All rather banal because we know that these are tricks. They can all be demonstrated by anyone in the know. Magicians speak of…
Welcome to my first blog as writer-in-residence for the Hysteria 10 writing competition. This is the third year I’ve been involved; twice as a reader and once as a finalist in flash fiction. Meeting other readers in Zoomland during the process and taking note of feedback from entrants made me want to ask this question.
