http://www.jonathanpinnock.com NO SOONER THE WORD THAN THE FICTION Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:28:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So ... for the second time running, I've been longlisted at Cadenza, this time with my story "Piss and Patchouli". Whoo hoo! And for the second time running, I've failed to make the shortlist. Boo hoo! Clearly I'm doing something right, but not quite right enough. Still, I guess that's my ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/01/longlisted-at-cadenza-again/ My 87-worder "Internal Affairs" is today's story at Flashshot, so for the next 24 hours or less it can be viewed here, and then for another nine days here. Believe it or not, this piece, short as it is, was actually changed as a result of critiquing by my fellow members of ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/01/internal-affairs/ So, Happy New 2009 to all this blog's readers. And, specially for you, here's a link to a download of the inaugural issue of TheRightEyedDeer, which contains my story "Somewhat Less Than Thirty Pieces", which was accepted on December 28th and thus becomes my 42nd and last hit of 2008 ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2009/01/happy-new-year/ A couple of days before Christmas, I heard that my first-ever Fibonacci poem, "Grey Goo", had been accepted by Every Day Poets, and I now see that it is scheduled for January 18th. So that's my fourth poetry hit for 2008! It's only a matter of time before my family ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/back-at-every-day-poets/ On Sunday I took the family along to the New End Theatre in Hampstead for an evening of chilling stories expertly told by Miles Barden and Joshua Dickinson (including a new version of my own piece, "After Michelangelo"), and we all had a great time. I'll leave the review to ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/a-winters-chill-strikes-hampstead/ The judge's report on the Milton Keynes Speakeasy Competition is now up on their site, as is my piece, "Fishermen's Tales". I've wanted to write a story with a protagonist called Milo ever since I read "The Phantom Tollbooth". Which is quite a long time ago, now I come to ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/fishermens-tales/ Well, I never did get around to doing that "Merry Christmas" post, like you're supposed to do in this kind of blog. Things suddenly got terribly complicated in the week leading up to Christmas, with my father being admitted to hospital suffering from an infection that left him in a very ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/now-where-was-i/ Volume One, Issue Two of The Oddville Press was published today, containing my flash "The Truth About Uncle Joe", an everyday story of Communism, five-year plans and tentacles. It's quite probably the daftest thing I've ever written. But not quite as daft as the project I've got planned for next ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/the-truth-about-uncle-joe/ I was just about to put together one of those reflective posts that discuss the various wonderful things I've done this year and the even more wonderful things that I'm really going to do next year (win the Bridport, publish best-selling novel, that kind of thing), when I came across ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/best-blog-post-ever/ You wait all year to get into an anthology and then two come along at once. But doesn't this look cool? This is "Scratching at Cardboard", the anthology containing the best of this year's Whittaker Prize, and it contains my story "Dislocation", which came second in Round One (and that ... http://www.jonathanpinnock.com/2008/12/scratching-at-cardboard/