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More submissions.

 I also spent some of last week redrafting another previous TMA, ‘Breaking Distance,’ ready for submission to the monthly Writers Forum magazine competition. I emailed it to them on Monday in the hope that it might make publication before the 15th June deadline for the BBC National Short Story Award.  A long-shot I know, but entrants to the National Short Story Award are required to have been previously featured in a publication that has either an ISSN or ISBN number. And I don’t think my letter to the Transformers comic when I was ten will count. I also have another story, ‘The Bus Stop,’ ready to send to Scribble magazine,…

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A start.

 After a long Easter break it is time to get cracking. With my current OU course about to end, things are ramping up. I have a TMA (Teacher Marked Assessment) due soon and my ECA (End of Course Assessment) to finish in seven weeks or so. Add to that my urge to send out short fiction manuscripts to literary journals, magazines and websites to see what sticks and it is easy to see that the run to the summer will be busy.   Last week, as a first step on the path to publication, I entered my first competition, run by the Writers Forum magazine and The Weekly News, sending…

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