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  • '''Perfect Moment''' was originally written for the first round of the 2011 ''[http://www.nycmidnight.com/competitions/twee
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  • ...y an independent judge and a rolling total was kept. Separate competitions for fiction and poetry were run in parallel. In 2013 a '''Not the Whittaker'''
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  • ...t an Amazing Fish'' and 356 words long, was written for the practice night for ''[[Children in Need]]'' later in November 2007, in response to the prompt ...rather than the third, and there isn't much of a background or motivation for the main character.
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  • '''Natural Selection''' was originally written for Task One of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt ...erfect job, except that in this story, the protagonist had been in the job for some times, only to be stymied by an incompetent superior. Under its new na
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  • '''Think Tank''' was originally written for ''[http://sixsentences.blogspot.co.uk Six Sentences]'', although they clear ...t’s the answer to everything i mean my god i’ve cracked it that’s the cure for aids and cancer and bloody hell i’ve just worked out a workable unified f
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  • ...ond out of three entries, with two votes out of five. It was then expanded for Task One of the 2008-9 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt
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  • '''SlingInk Short Shorts''' was an annual open competition for stories of 100 words or under.
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  • '''Internal Affairs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 126, in August 2008, in response
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  • '''The Birdman of Farringdon Road''' was originally written for Task Three of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prom ...ble as a webcast by ''[http://www.shortstoryradio.com Short Story Radio]'' for ''National Short Story Week'' in October 2013. The producer was Ian Skillic
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  • ...tunately, and loses the thing that Barbecue had of being something we take for granted now. There are always compromises to be made, unfortunately.
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  • '''Hidden Shallows''' was originally written for Task Nine of the 2008-9 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The promp I'd been itching to write a story called ''Hidden Shallows'' for some time, although I'd no idea what form it might take. I just liked the i
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  • ''Bootcamp'' used to run an event, open to outsiders, to raise money for ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_need BBC Children in Need]''. T
    824 bytes (140 words) - 23:36, 19 June 2014
  • '''Dot Dash''' was my entry for Salt Publishing's Scott Prize in 2010/11. The Scott Prize ran from 2009/10 ...nged to the more prosaic - but way more practical - '''Dot Dash''' in time for publication.
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  • '''Anniversary Feast''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 96, in February 2008, in response
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  • '''The Guitarist’s Inheritance''' was originally written for Task Six of the 2007-8 ''[[SlingInk Eurofiction Competition]]''. The prompt ...rite about. The emotion's already programmed in. Unless you're going to go for a completely new angle, you're pretty much wasting your time. So I'm still
    915 bytes (142 words) - 00:31, 20 June 2014
  • ...it up, reducing the word count to 12 so that it would fit the requirements for the ''[http://www.vestalreview.net Vestal Review]'' ''Dirty Dozen'', where
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  • ...x Keegan]] was the judge for a competition I'd recently submitted an entry for.
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  • I was a member on and off for over twenty years, including a disastrous two-year reign as chairman, until They run a number of annual internal competitions, three of which are for fiction:
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  • ...e for the competition was ''Vision''. I'm not entirely sure where the idea for the story actually came from, but looking back on it, it's pretty obvious t ...proofreading. When I heard that I'd been shortlisted - and hence eligible for the anthology - it was pointed out to me that there was one phrase that did
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  • '''Frogs''' was originally written for ''[[Café Doom Flash Challenge]]'' number 85, in November 2007, in response
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