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  • SW Audio
  • Espresso Novellas
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    • AAWP/SW Novella Prize
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      • 2025 NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award
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The Joys of Constructing a Collection of Stories

December 7, 2020By Bronwyn_Mehanguest blog, NEWS & EVENTS (Homepage), The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, THE COLUMN
The Joys of Constructing a Collection of Stories

by Carmel Bird Writing a short story is one of my greatest pleasures. Then taking a bunch of stories I have written and devising a structure for a collection – that’s another. Sometimes writers set out with a theme – say, to keep it simple here, fourteen stories about plagues – and then their task … Read More

Becoming a writer: Deniz Agraz

December 2, 2020By Bronwyn Mehanguest blog, NEWS & EVENTS (Homepage), Slinkies, The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award, THE COLUMN
Becoming a writer: Deniz Agraz

Mentor, writers’ circle or uni course? Our 2021 Slinkies judge, Deniz Agraz shares her thoughts on the various options for emerging writers. As well as a potted history of her own writing career to date, beginning at the age of seven.

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