HIT: Stare's Nest
An edited version of my poem 'glimpsed', which started life in the January blast this year, has just been accepted for publication by Stare's Nest. It's gone live this morning, following on from poems...
View Article2 HITS: Eclectica
Dear Alex, I am happy to inform you that I am accepting "The Cruel Month" and "Angels" for publication in our Winter issue, to be released April 15, 2015, or thereabouts (updates will be posted on the...
View Articlesmall hit and two near-ish misses
a story called 'Angel', (which i'm pretty sure is a heavily rewritten version of a story posted in primaries or a flash blast a while ago, maybe under the name ''Angels' )has been accepted by...
View ArticleFish shortlist
Made the shortlist with A Fine Goodbye which was I think a Jan flash blast piece.
View ArticleRon Jones Wins (& Commended) in Sentinel Quarterly SS Prize
A useful £200 First Prize (but nowhere in the poetry) :-(Story from way back, a flash-blast product"BUNJEE"
View ArticleHit: Live from Worktown
'sunshine in the park' has been accepted for the Live from Worktown anthology. This tiny (8 line) poem was previously longlisted by Magma, so I was cautiously optimistic someone somewhere would want it.
View ArticleLonglisted - now shortlisted: flash 500
'Small Creatures', an early version of which was on here a while back, is on the longlist for the current flash 500 competition.
View ArticleTiny arty hit - BBC Little Painting Challenge
Didn't win, but the postcard-sized picture I entered for this competition is one of those selected from thousands entered to be exhibited at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery from 1st-22nd May.
View ArticleHIT: The Lake
My poem 'Twenty-eight Meditations on Finding a Street Piano' has just been accepted for publication. "Thanks for sending the poem which I like very much. I'd like to use it in the May issue of The...
View ArticleHIT Space and Time magazine
'Space and Time' magazine have taken my poem 'The Night of the Mothers', which started life here as a flash ages ago. They pay $5 plus two copies of the magazine.
View ArticleHighly Commended Lumen and Camden poetry competition
This is for my poem 'A Man Goes Out', which started life as a flash here last June http://bootcampkeegan.yuku.com/topic/15623/June-Blast-023-04-ResponsesAlex-Dart-JJFic-SIB-Man-G. The competition was...
View ArticleCouple of hits
Just popping in to mention a few hits of BC written work: 1. Structo Magazine are taking a 1k word story 'On A Red Eye Heading East' written in BC. I think the original was called Selfie. 2. I got...
View ArticleNational Flash Fiction Day micro-fiction longlist
I have one on the list (out of three entered) - anyone else? http://nationalflashfictionday.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/micro-fiction-competition-2015-longlist.html
View ArticleHit for LAC
I saw on Twitter today that exBC member LAC has a story in the top three of the BBC Radio 4 Opening Lines Competition. Her story will be broadcast on Radio 4 in...
View ArticleErbacce Prize long shortlist
I'm on the long shortlist for the erbacce - along with forty others, but as they had over 5000 entries, I'm patting myself on the back. http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/erbacce-prize/4533449873
View ArticleVer poets
One poem 'commended' and another 'selected' in the recent Ver Poets open competition, which means two in the competition anthology. The commended one was 'Recluse', which I'm sure is here somewhere...
View Articlehit at www.thelakepoetry.co.uk
I subbed three poems to www.thelakepoetry.co.uk a week or so ago, and they've decided to take one called "graveyard" for the july issue.(this is, I think, my third ever published poem, so i'm...
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