We are thrilled to announce this year’s Slinkies authors. In the next series of posts we bring you interviews with 2020 Slinkies authors, Sophie Overett, Harry Goddard, Ch’aska Cuba de Reed, Liam Higham, Sky Carrall, Emil Colic, Tehya Nicholas and Thomas Alan. In this post, Sky talks about her microfiction, ‘Midnight Sandwiches’ and ‘Different Seasons’, … Read More
We are thrilled to announce this year’s Slinkies authors. In the next series of posts we bring you interviews with 2020 Slinkies authors, Sophie Overett, Harry Goddard, Ch’aska Cuba de Reed, Liam Higham, Sky Carrall, Emil Colic, Tehya Nicholas and Thomas Alan. In this post, Liam talks about his comic zombie short story, Drop Dead … Read More
We are thrilled to announce this year’s Slinkies authors. In the next series of posts we bring you interviews with 2020 Slinkies authors, Sophie Overett, Harry Goddard, Ch’aska Cuba de Reed, Liam Higham, Sky Carrall, Emil Colic, Tehya Nicholas and Thomas Alan. In this post, Sophie Overett talks about her short story, Drift about levitating … Read More
The winning entry in the 2020 National Phone It In Competition is Jocelyn Saunders for her piece, ‘Only In My Mind’. Jocelyn receives a $200 book voucher. Thanks to all those who took part in the People’s Choice poll. Tamzin Ward Kucurs whose story ‘Second Wife ‘ received 383 votes and the voter chosen at … Read More
We are very proud to be introducing you to the six very talented young writers whose micro audio stories on the theme of sound have been selected by our judge Matilda Gould in the #LitFest2444 Phone It In competition. In this post, we share the judge’s report and interviews with the finalists. You can hear … Read More
We are very pleased to announce the following nine shortlisted finalists in this year’s award. Justin Wolfers selected the finalists from a very strong field of submissions. The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Awards is for collections of short fiction and novella up to 30, 000 words. The winner and two runners up who will receive … Read More
Natalie is excited to celebrate her first year of marriage but the arrival of a piece of paper in the post turns the anniversary sour. Join us for a discussion of SJ Finn’s ‘Paper Anniversary’ at the next audio bookclub on Facebook. You can listen to the Little Fictions On Air episode featuring SJ Finn … Read More
For the past two months, we have been posting an audio story daily as part of the Infectious Fictions series. We hope they have brought you some welcome distraction in these challenging times. If you would like to re-listen or to share them, you can find them here. And if you are looking for more … Read More
What are Infectious Fictions? Each day we will be delivering the world to you in the form of short audio stories under 5 minutes in length. Narrated by actors at some of our recent live events or recorded in studio by some of authors, these stories are drawn from our annual microlit anthologies. Infectious Fictions … Read More
What are Infectious Fictions? Each day we will be delivering the world to you in the form of short audio stories under 5 minutes in length. Narrated by actors at some of our recent live events or recorded in studio by some of authors, these stories are drawn from our annual microlit anthologies. Infectious Fictions … Read More
