A new annual anthology series from Salt Publishing edited by Nicholas Royle. The Best British Short Stories 2011. Love Silk Food Leone Ross. Dinner of the Dead Alumni Adam Marek. So Much Time in a Life Heather Leach. The Rental Heart Kirsty Logan.

An Event of Some Kind. You never see Peter Pan and Robin Hood in the same room together, having really hot sex. Pandas NEED to be sexier! Who called them cattle and not brand ambassadors 1 day ago.

Spaghetti Success as Plans Scrapped. Kat Higgs, the communications Executive Officer was particularly disgruntled with the motion and said.

I Come Here to Destroy! March 28, 2014. My bashful, scruffy eyes planted themselves upon a delicious pair of lips. Blood pulsed from one arm and into the oblivion of the laboratory. A gentle soul, my mother used to say as she sprayed hairspray in a sticky halo about her head. Others have been less kind. But time has been good to me. Inching forward, gentle as a whisper. Circling the camp, between the fire and the stars, are pinches of.

Live lit events where short stories are read. And contemporary authors of short story collections. As well as more short story links.

Tuesday, 14 January 2014. So, 2013 turned out to be a brilliant and busy year. There were interviews with Aussie magazines. I spoke to writing students at BCU and Halesowen College about writing and crafting your first novel. And I was lucky enough be asked to submit an extract from 27. And write an article on one of my literary heroes, Denis Johnson.