Tag: writing
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SF flash piece ‘Wind Chimes’ up at 365 tomorrows
Well, then. Seems this week’s theme is flash fiction acceptances? My <500-word piece 'Wind Chimes' is now up at 365 tomorrows (a project that’s given readers a new piece of SF/speculative flash fiction every day since 2005). ‘Wind Chimes’ is the featured story for today so it’s on the front page (yay!), but the story…
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First story publication – in Finnish!
Exciting! A flash fiction piece of mine (‘Munankuorikehto’, meaning ‘Egg-Shell Cradle’) will be published in the upcoming issue (3/2014) of Spin, the quarterly magazine of the Turku Science Fiction Society (TSFS). The magazine is print-only. Those of you proficient in Finnish can subscribe to the magazine, or order a separate copy when the issue comes…
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‘Looking-Glass Lover’ free to read in Niteblade
I just noticed that Issue #28 of Niteblade has received enough funding that it’s fully free to read online. So, if you haven’t done so already, off you go to read my poem ‘Looking-Glass Lover’ and the rest of the great poetry and prose in the issue! I’m going out to enjoy the lovely warm…
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Academic and creative
Earlier this week I got great news: I’ve been accepted into the doctoral programme at the University of Turku. I’m incredibly happy I’m getting to do a PhD, as continuing in academia has been my goal ever since I got my MA two years ago. Now it’s going to happen for real: I get to…
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‘Shrug Charm’ in Goblin Fruit for your reading pleasure
The Spring 2014 issue of Goblin Fruit is now live! Huzzah! Read the issue here. It’s full of gorgeous poems – I’m very happy to be amongst such talented company. Wonderful art as always, too. I really love what Paula Friedlander’s done with the bold outlines and lush, 3D colourscapes. Here’s my poem: ‘Shrug Charm’.…
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Poetry sales to Goblin Fruit
Some happy news: my poems ‘Shrug Charm’ and ‘Sorrow-stone’ will be published in the Spring and Summer issues of Goblin Fruit! I love Goblin Fruit – the issues are always gorgeous, well-thought-out and full of talented poets – so I’m pretty much over the moon to be published in such a lovely magazine. I’ll post…
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‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ now online
The Alchemies issue of CSHS is now online, yay! You can read my poem here: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’. Do check out the rest of the issue as well – there’s some really good poetry there, and a few intriguing pieces of visual art, too.
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Poetry sale: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’
I’m amused by the fact that my most recent publications both have ‘lover’ in the title. In other words: ‘The Alchemist’s Lover’ will be published in the next issue (‘Alchemies’) of CSHS. Yay! I’m currently applying for a PhD, and since my data consists of some medieval English alchemical texts, of course I had to…
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Whan that Aprill…
I’m not participating in NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) in any official way, but I have set myself a writing goal for April: to write something new every day, whether it’s poetry or prose. Shitty or good, three words or three thousand – it doesn’t matter, as long as I write something. The first three…