Competitions Archives - Jonathan Pinnock

A Juggler’s Life

I published this post yesterday before succumbing to a fit of chronic overthinking (it’s a habit of mine). Anyway, I looked at […]

Well, that was an odd year for writing, that’s for sure. Some very good things happened, certainly, but a lot of things […]

Inevitably, once I’d hit the “Publish” button on my last post, it struck me that there were a whole load of things […]

Considering its significance in the life of a writer, we really don’t talk enough about failure. This is a shame, because failure is a good […]

Is it that time of year already? Apparently it is. A week tomorrow (June 25th) is National Flash Fiction Day, 2016. I […]

And so this year’s Fish campaign draws to a close, with longlistings in the short story and flash categories and (yay!) a […]

Well, I didn’t get any further than the shortlist. But I still won some cool swag (I’ve got a couple of them […]

Well, then. I seem to have made it through to the next stage. This is all rather splendid, because it means that […]

Quiet here, isn’t it? The reasons for my silence are not entirely unrelated to the terror alluded to in my previous post, […]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I still don’t really understand poetry. With fiction, I can read most things and […]