Solicited submissions

• Charlotte Seymour (Andrew Nurnberg)
• Veronique Baxter (David Higham)
• Euan Thorneycroft (A.M Heath)

Unsolicited but researched

• Jo Unwin (JULA)

Diva Lit Fest

• Lighthouse - max 7000
• Glimmertrain - Very Short Fiction (1st place - $2,000):

Welcome in March/April and July/August. We invite any length stories from 300 to 3,000 words.

• Fiction Open (1st place - $3,000):

Welcome in March/April and July/August. Open to all subjects​ ​and themes. Most entries run from 3,000 to 6,000 words, but we invite stories from 3,000 to 20,000 words.

• Short Story Award for New Writers (1st place - $2,500):

Welcome in January/February, May/June, and September/October. Open only to writers whose fiction has not appeared in a print publication with a circulation over 5,000. (Previous online publication is fine....

• 11/01 36 lengths/10 straight freestyle/30 mins
• 17/01 42 lengths/10 straight freestyle/30 mins
• 14/02 36 lengths/30 mins
• 17/02 30 lengths/15 straight freestyle/30 mins

• Enter Shikari (several times)
• Queen - with Freddie *and* Adam
• Rammstein
• Late afternoon Kate Rusby set while I drink some coffee
• David Bowie
• The Killers doing Mr Brightside every night
• Beartooth
• Green Day
• The Darkness
• Admiral Fallow

• Graduate
• Get a job
• Go camping
• Learn to knit
• Tidy up the garden
• ✔ New car
• Get on the pill
• Finish my second novel
• Get an agent

• spend one hour every day doing some handwriting
• spend 30-60 mins every day reading
• go for more walks
• no TV
• less internet

• Some Luck - Jane Smiley
• ✔ Monsters of Men - Patrick Ness
• The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
• Adventures in the Anthropocene - Gaia Vince
• Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterley
• ✔ Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

• My hair
• I'm smart
• Confidence
• I got some nice guns *kisses biceps*
• Open minded
• My marriage is strong :)
• I can lift stuff that no one expects I can
• Tidy
• I can make people laugh
• People say I'm nice
• Long eyelashes
• I'm a good writer
• Nice nails

• Box Night and meeting charlie
• cooking with alex
• running into the lightning storm with kathy
• the geology lab sofa + sleeping in a box
• there's a ghost in the lab!!
• study abroad - eating a giant pretzel - library all nighters - thanksgiving pot luck - the mountains in the snow - NYC - bud light - writing class - 'you should just stay here'
• anytime Mr Brightside was on in the union
• Eurovision party
• Drinking + bbqs by the hall
• Rolling down the hill
• Getting lost in the woods
• Britney Spears through the wall

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• The Washlands
• Cemetery

• Glimmer Train New Writers Contest - 28/02 https://glimmertrainpressinc.submittable...
• Bath Short Story Award - 1/5 - 2000
• Bridport Prize - 31/5 - 5k max
• The White Review Short Story Prize - 01/05 - 2-7k
• Bristol Short Story Prize - 3/5 - 4k max

• Graduate with PhD
• Get a job (ideally post-doc but anything)
• Find C a job up north
• Move up north
• Buy a house
• Go on holiday
• Adopt a child
• Find an agent
• Get published

• peppers
• garlic
• chillies
• courgettes
• bean sprouts
• emergency pizza
• almond milk
• freezer bread

• we'll write songs in the dark
• something harry potter maybe...
• a flower from grandad's watercolour paintings
• a really nice tree