Graham Storrs

I’ve been looking at 2009 to check how I’ve been doing against my writerly ambitions. It’s pretty good, overall. I got eight shorts stories published and placed in two competitions. I also won a write-a-quote competition! I also had my two first print publications (both short stories in anthologies). Although I actually made money by [...]

This will be the last post on this blog before Christmas. I can’t promise you that it’s the last post of the year, but for now I’m signing out. My daughter’s arriving the day after tomorrow and there’s lots to do before then.
I want to leave you with a little Christmas present though. My short [...]

Hot on the heels of my last publication announcement (see below) I bring you ‘The Shouter and the Chanter’ which is out now in Alien Skin.
I very much enjoy writing and reading flash fiction and this is the second time I have had a piece appear in Alien Skin (thanks guys). People often say that [...]

With all this frantic editing and book publicising going on, I forgot to mention something very important to me. My short story, ‘All the Way’ has just been published in The Future Fire.
If you don’t know this magazine, you should probably download some of their PDF editions and have a browse. The Future Fire deliberately [...]

I ran the complete set of posts from this blog through the Wordle program. Wordle calculates word frequencies, translates them to physical sizes, and uses this information to lay out the most frequent words in interesting ways. The image below, therefore, shows you just what I talk about most in this blog. If you haven’t [...]

My short story,  ‘The Earth Ship’, is available now in a new anthology from Absent Willow Publishing, modestly titled, ‘The Best Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction of 2009‘. Copies can be had from the publisher or on Amazon. The Absent Willow Review, which first published ‘The Earth Ship’ claims to be the world’s fastest growing [...]

The Concept Sci-fi Magazine 2009 Short Story Competition Special Edition is now avaialable online. It contains just three stories, the winner, “Bringer of War” by Iain Cairns, and the two runners-up; “Volume Control” by Matthew Fazakerly, and “Swan Song” by yours truly. Download it now and have a great weekend read. It’s free!
Congratulations to Iain [...]

Now that’s fast! The competition was only opened in May this year. Since then, there have been all the entries, the judging, the editing and the production. Now, in July, the top 40 stories from the Editor Unleashed Flash Fiction 40 competition are available in an anthology, edited by Maria Schneider, and available for free [...]

Continuing yesterday’s competitions theme, I see the Editor Unleased/Smashwords Flash Fiction 40 competition has announced the 40 lucky winners.  (That’s me, about half-way down the list, under the user ID graywave.) As there are 40 winners and there were only 280 entrants, that puts me roughly in the top 20%.
I remember a day, many, many [...]

I’ve been trying to decide lately at what point being published for no fee counts as vanity publishing. A few of my recent publications have been in non-fee-paying magazines. I sent my work to them because I thought it would be an appropriate first step on the ladder to being paid for my work. (You [...]