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Congratulations to Nicola Gill who has been awarded second prize in the 2013 Chapter One International Short Story Prize for her story ‘A Walk in the Park’.

Nicola has attended quite a few London Writing Workshop events, most recently November 2012’s day on characterization and dialogue. She is also at work on a novel of which I have high hopes!

For more information about the Chapter One award and to read the judge’s report click here.

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The Royal Society of Literature is holding its second series of Masterclasses in collaboration with the Booker Prize Foundation this year. Their autumn programme includes a day on ‘Bio-Fiction’ with  novelist Adam Foulds (8 September), and Tessa Hadley teaching ‘the Short Story’ (Saturday 10th November). You can book for these and other events through the RSL website.

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Throwaway Lines is a lovely idea – short stories inspired by discarded notes and messages. The  project was initiated by Andy Hayes, who attended last year’s short story workshop with me and Alexei Sayle. It’s produced in association with the writers’ collective 26 –  also a site worth investigating if you don’t know about them.

For 26 days this month, they’ll be publishing stories based on scraps of handwritten paper that Andy has been collecting from London’s streets over the past couple of years. There are three stories to read so far, including one by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg – an example of early 20th-century flash fiction: ‘Half a sheet of foolscap’.

It’s live right now at this link: Throwaway Lines. Take a look!

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I was very pleased  to hear that my story ‘Rich’ was selected as one of the finalists in Narrative Magazine’s 2009 Spring Contest. It’s a website well worth visiting.

http://www.narrativemagazine.com/