Some of my blogs have been around for a long time, together getting over 3 millions hits. My guess is that AI's thirst for training data has...

So another Flash Fiction Festival is over. On the way to Bristol I popped into Tewkesbury and Chelmsford, both for the first time. As ever, ...

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"Happy and Fortunate" is a 13 page poem from "Old Men" (Salt, 2024) by Peter Daniels. It was shortlisted in the Wigtown Alastair Reid Pamp...

THE SEA: Cambridge Writers Short Story Competition 2025 eBook : Writers, Cambridge , Hooton, Hannah, Garvey, Anne, Goode, Harry: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Welcome to part one of a Creative Writing Blog Series with Hannah Hooton  Descriptive Writing Types of descriptive writing:  What do you want to describe?  Why do you want to describe it? (Emotional m...

Flint and Glass Both shine when in love. One’s opaque and sparks if struck precisely. The other’s more a container than a weapon, dangerous only if broken. I’m neither. If beachco…

There are many styles of critiques. Some have names (Narratology, Deconstructionism, etc), some are tendencies (character-based, language-...

"Life looked ahead long before it could remember. The better we could anticipate the future, the better our chances of survival." - excerpt from "Triptych" by Tim Love.

In "Don't ask me what I mean" (Picador, 2003), a collection of articles by poets about their books, Billy Collins wrote " Performing an act ...