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'The Others' Wins a Prize

3/27/2012

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Abu Dhabi Book Fair
The extended version of a 350-word flash piece, 'On the Beach' (reinvented as 'The Others' at 1,400 words), has won me a 100 quid book voucher. See the notification below:

"It's our pleasure to inform you that you are the fifth place winner of this year's Short Story Competition, organised by The National and the Abu Dhabi Book Fair! We loved your story The Others and look forward to publishing it online on our website
www.thenational.ae, by Monday, April 3.

To collect your prize, you are invited to come by the Abu Dhabi Book Fair on Sunday, April 2, where you will be joined by the other four shortlisted authors and presented with your prize. The event will start at 12:30 so if you can be there a little before, at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, head to the press centre where you will be taken care of.

If you don't mind, I will have a reporter get in touch with you soon to ask you a few questions and perhaps get some background information for a story we are preparing about the winners and the outcome of the competition, which will run in the Monday addition of our paper in the Arts&Life section.

As for your story, we will publish it online as is, with very minor edits to match The National's style. If you have any questions, please be in touch.

Again, congratulations on winning and I do hope there's a lot more writing in your future."

All very nice - apart from the bit about being 'taken care of'.

I'll let you know next week how it all went.

Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:

http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!


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'Spooked' Accepted for Publication

3/20/2012

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I've finally managed to place one of my six stories from last year's Slingink Scribbling Slam short story competition.

Spooked, my round five entry has been picked up by Australian magazine Fast Fiction. Surprisingly, or perhaps not so surprisingly, Spooked wasn't one of my trio of round winners. In fact, it bombed.

However, I always felt Spooked was a strong story - humorous and with a vivid setting; the action takes place in a Scottish castle. Just goes to show that competition judges and editors (and authors) can have wildly differing opinions about the same piece of work.

That's it for this week. Fingers crossed for more good news next time.

Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:

http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!

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Mythic Resonance - 'Annabel and the Witch' Sees Publication

3/5/2012

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Annabel and the Witch
A first major publication of the year sees Annabel and the Witch published in Specusphere's Mythic Resonance anthology.

Annabel and the Witch, the story of a poverty-stricken girl living in Windermere during the Middle Ages, was originally The Prioress's Second Tale, part of my 'Lost' Canterbury Tales project. Alas, the editors of the anthology asked me to remove the tale's prologue and the epilogue so as not to detract from Chaucer's original texts!

Always one to oblige (when it comes to publication of one of my narrative poems), I did just that.

Below is a link to excerpts from Mythic Resonance (mine's the third story featured), and further links to the blurb, contents and book trailer:

http://www.specusphere.com/feature-articles/excerpts-from-mythic-resonance.html

http://www.specusphere.com/publishing/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFuZV0e0Ie4

That's it for this week. Fingers crossed for more good news next time.

Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:

http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!

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    Paul A. Freeman

    Paul A. Freeman is an English instructor working in Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. He lives there with his wife and three young children.

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