Metazen Christmas Charity Ebook 2010

19/12/10 13:17

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The Metazen Christmas Charity E-book 2010 is nearly ready for release. I am a big fan of Metazen and am very happy to have my story ‘The Last Year of Father Christmas’ included in this year’s fundraising Christmas collection.

Here’s the details from the mouths of the editors themselves:

‘Last year we raised a few hundred dollars at Christmas time.
Metazen asked authors to contribute Christmas-ish stories/ poems for an E-Book.
Metazen asked people to donate for a chance to read the E-Book on Christmas Day.
All of the donations were given to an orphanage in Cambodia.
This year we are doing the same.’

The ebook will be available on Christmas Day. Apparently the cover will be something special so I’ll post a pic as soon as possible. I hope you’ll download a copy and support a worthy cause. For your trouble, you’ll get a collection of some of the bestest/strangest Christmas fiction avaliable.

Metazen to publish 'Ultrasounds'

19/10/10 10:45

I received news today that Ultrasounds, a loose thematic trilogy of flash fictions written while my wife was pregnant with our third child, will be the feature story on Metazen on the 11th November. I am chuffed about this as I can’t think of a more fitting publication space for these stories than the hive of originality and surprise that is Metazen. They are stories I feel very close to, born as they were out of the amazing arrival of my new baby daughter and I look forward to your being able to read them in a few weeks time.

'The Car Park' selected for Best of the New Flesh, Vol 1

08/08/10 21:52

August 11th marks the one year anniversary of The New Flesh and to celebrate, the editors will be releasing a ‘Best of The New Flesh’ featuring 50 stories from the online journals first year of output. My story ‘The Car Park’ has been selected alongside a whole host of quality stories. The free ebook collection will be available to download in time for the site’s first anniversary from several ebook sites.

Up the Staircase Quarterly to publish 'Piece by Piece'

01/08/10 13:14

Up the Staircase Quarterly is to publish my flash fiction ‘Piece by Piece’ as part of their August issue Editor’s challenge. They wanted ‘a short fiction piece, written with no more than 250 words that includes the word ‘staircase’...... any subject, any genre, just as long as it is 250 words or less!’ Up the Staircase is another online journal I enjoy reading and I am really excited to find myself in amongst the great writers there. Click out the link for the stories on offer in the latest issue and be sure to check back there when the August issue is published

Metazen to publish 'Baggage'

18/07/10 16:22

My flash fiction ‘Baggage’ has been accepted for publication at metazen, the online literary magazine that publishes surreal and metafictional writing. ‘Baggage’ will appear there on August 16th. On the website the ‘How metazen works’ page describes the kind of story they like:

‘metazen likes odd stories and odd poems, but ones that touch you in a special way’

‘Baggage’ certainly fits both the criteria. In the run up to its publication be sure to check out the other ‘odd’ stories and poems in their archive and posted daily.

Eclectic Flash to publish 'What Precise Moment'

08/05/10 09:24

My flash fiction ‘What Precise Moment’ has been accepted for the September edition of Eclectic Flash. You can download the free pdf edition of the April issue of this excellent flash fiction journal, buy a print copy and listen to recordings of a selection of the stories here.

The View From Here to publish 'Breaking Distance'

29/04/10 08:45

I received confirmation last night that my short story, ‘Breaking Distance,’ is to be published in the June edition of ‘The View From Here.’ Very excited about this as it is the first piece of longer fiction I have managed to find a home for, and its due to see publication around the same time as the arrival of my new baby daughter. Two reasons to be cheerful in June. In the meantime, check out The View From Here website. There is a lot of excellent stuff there.