Sarah's good news!

Hey guys. I found this in the newest New Writing North blog posting:

Sarah Shaw goes from strength to strength
We are delighted to see Andrea Badenoch Award winner Sarah Shaw going from strength to strength with her story, Killer Genes, named as one of five runners-up in the Genomics Forum Short Story competition run by Edinburgh University. Another story, from her collection A Crack in the Rock, was accepted for publication in new fiction magazine Yellow Room. We all wish her continuing success.

Go visit Sarah's blog and leave her some congratulations on the good news! http://sarahshawwriter.wordpress.com

Story Exchange

A couple of years ago a friend and I started a story together. We took turns writing it, trading every time we saw each other.

So I was thinking, what if we started a story or epic poem and passed it around via the post? You can write as little or as much as you like and perhaps keep a comments page to make suggestions as to where the story/poem might go. The only catch would be to make sure you pass it along within a reasonable amount of time (couple of weeks at most?) Anyone interested?

Leave your address if you want to get involved!

my new blog

In an attempt to stay inspired after the creative writing course, I've started a new blog at:

http://a-writing-life.blogspot.com/

Please visit and leave comments! I'd love to hear what you think!!

Wed 22nd Get together

Meeting 2.30pm @The Gate to see a film that I can't remember and Chris will kill me but it's the new Cohen brothers one, wait ........ Burn After Reading (???)

Drinks afterwards, and probably a sly cocktail or ten

Who's around and coming out to play? Sean?? You out there??

Lost for Words?

Next time you're writing a story and need to spice up a sentence, why not use one of these fantastic words...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7659954.stm

Personally I like number 6, Scrimshanker. Sounds like something a pirate would say...

Grades etc

Spoke to Melanie today and she will be posting out our portfolio grades either today or tomorrow. We are not allowed to collect them from her office. So we should have our portfolio grade by Thursday and therefore should maybe meet as planned at The Hancock at 2pm? What do you reckon? The exam board are now meeting on 15th October to decide our final overall grade.