Category: Short Stories

Two Submission Opportunities

Coverstory books currently has two open submission windows: Pebbles on the Strand - for short stories between 2,000 and 5,000 words. Closing date 30th November. New Contexts: 6 - for poetry and short prose (less than 2,000 words). This will be the sixth edition of the anthology. Closing date 31st December. For details on how … Continue reading Two Submission Opportunities →

Here are some of the posts on last week’s Substack

Digest of last week’s Substack activity

Digest of some of last week’s Substack activity

“Stories and Texts for Nothing”

The most remarkable thing about Samuel Beckett's Stories and Texts for Nothing is the percentage of the short 'nothing texts' which prefigure or overlap Waiting for Godot. Even to the extent of remarkably similar - if not repeated - phrases. Not surprising really given that they were all written around the same time, 1945-1950. There … Continue reading “Stories and Texts for Nothing” →

Digest of this week’s Substack activity

Here is a summary of my activity on Substack this week. Click on any of the images to be taken to the post concerned. Free Preview Free Preview FREE FREE Free Preview FREE

Free subscription anyone?

I would like to offer my website subscribers a free month's subscription to my Substack site. However, in order to do so I need to be confident that you have accepted receiving emails from me. I'm pretty sure you have as you'll get an email every time I put out a post like this one! … Continue reading Free subscription anyone? →

This week’s recent Substack activity…

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Sonnet Man #28 – “Heading into Winter”

https://videopress.com/v/ItHBvXOB?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "Heading into Winter" from Not the Sonnets This is the last of these on this website. Sonnets 29 onwards will be available on my Substack site with the recording accompanying the text. Free subscriptions available. Amazon UK - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble #poetry #poetrylovers #poets #writers #writingcommunity #readingcommunity

Sonnet Man #27 – “Perspective”

https://videopress.com/v/hkc3Yz0D?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true "Perspective" from Not the Sonnets Sonnets 29 onwards will only be available on my Substack site (with the text). Free subscriptions available. Amazon UK - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble #poetry #poetrylovers #poets #writers #writingcommunity #readingcommunity