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Congratulations to Annemarie Neary – who took part in Microfictions in 2008 and the first Novelists’ Club in 2009 –  for her fine story in February’s edition of Litro.

Annemarie’s work has been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize for the past three years and she was a prizewinner in 2009. She was a prizewinner in the Fish and Bryan MacMahon short story competitions (Ireland), and had an Honorable Mention in the Lorian Hemingway contest (US). Her stories  have been published in anthologies, including, in 2010, 50 Stories for Pakistan, Ways of Falling and Stories of Loss and Deception. Click here to read her story ‘Endless’ in The Litro Anti-Love Edition

Camila Fiori, who attended the workshop Writing People & Places in 2009, has let me know that she’s taking part in an evening of interactive performance called ‘Objects of Desire’ on Friday 11th February, at the Freud Museum. It’s described as ‘an immersive evening of live art, performance, intervention, installation and film, inspired by the notion of the self-portrait, set in the unique surroundings of Sigmund and Anna Freud’s final home’.

The evening is part of ‘Objects in Mind’, a project with the National Portrait Gallery who have loaned Maggie Hambling’s self-portrait to the museum. More info and tickets available from the Freud Museum.

Jane Rusbridge’s haunting debut novel The Devil’s Music was published by Bloomsbury in 2009, and was picked to be this year’s Bridport Literary Festival’s Big Read. She will be talking about the road to publication on Tuesday 21^st September at the HIGHGATE AND HAMPSTEAD LITERARY FESTIVAL together with literary agent Barbara Levy and Pam White, an experienced book publicist.

Jane took part in this year’s the London Writing Workshop’s Novelists’ Club, and also attended the workshop on Dialogue in 2009.

To book for this event click here. For more about the Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival click here.

Congratulations to Annemarie Neary. Having been short-listed for the 2008 Bridport Fiction Prize, she is now one of eleven supplementary prizewinners of the 2009 Fiction Prize. This means that her story ‘Siren’ will be published in the forthcoming  Bridport anthology. Annemarie attended the Microfiction workshop in 2008 and took part in the first Novelists’ Club in 2009, although we can’t claim any credit for her success – ‘Siren’ was written before the course started. The 2009 Bridport Fiction prize was judged by Ali Smith.