Help needed!
I’ve written a collection of 16 realist short stories rooted in Wales. Several stories published in journals so far, including prize winners and shortlistings.
I’m unagented and unsure where literary short story collections even go now. Would welcome recommendations from people who know the small-press landscape.
Feel a bit like giving up.
The sticker feels weirdly smug. It states the bloody obvious while assuming a position of virtue above both the author and reader. Of course old books reflect the attitudes of their time. Why wouldn't they? Most books do, unless they're especially radical. The moral verdict "wrong then and wrong now" tells us less about the book and more about the institution that put it there. Ironically, the sticker is a product of its own cultural moment as much as the book is.
@AlastairTanJY It can be useful for research. For instance, I couldn't remember the words and order of service in a Church of England funeral for one story, and it helped with that.
"Quiet Enough to Listen" remains one of my favourite stories I've written. Delighted it won the Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition. The anthology, "Reserved," will be out in print and on Kindle Unlimited later this month.
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Delighted that "Quiet Enough to Listen", set in sleepy Kampot, has won the Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition. Ironclad do excellent work supporting neurodivergent writers.
“I could choose to be present, I thought — not to hold but to notice.”
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“I know how much he loved you. Please, Nanny. Let me play it for him, at least.”
In a silent house on Priory Road, thirteen-year-old Alfie discovers that some doors stay locked even after the key is found.
Winner of the Exeter Writers Short Story Competition 2026.
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Delighted to share that I've won the Exeter Writers Short Story Competition 2026 with A House Without Song.
The story will be published on the Exeter Writers website soon.
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@brockpierson I got this for Christmas 1991 bundles with the NES. It was the only game I had for a while, and I played it obsessively until I completed it. I still think about it, and the opening music takes me straight back there.
@pambizbuster I live overseas, but my impression is that if I moved back, I would only eat out for: proper wood oven baked pizza, fish n chips (at a chippy), a good Indian, maybe the occasional brekkie at a greasy spoon. Everything else, I'd rather make at home for quarter of the price.
Delighted to share that I've won the Exeter Writers Short Story Competition 2026 with A House Without Song.
The story will be published on the Exeter Writers website soon.
https://t.co/PVVoTf93SH
#WritingCommunity#ShortStory#ShortFiction#AmWriting