There are many things that I am good at and very many that I am really awful at. One of the latter is self-promotion. Yes, you heard, self-promotion. While I am a marketer's dream, for I sign up and buy everything under the sun and moon, I am a marketing guru's nightmare, for I set up all of my things to run beautifully and then forget about them. When I run workshops I usually end up printing the notes the day before because it only just occurs to me at the very last second that, hey, there's some enabling of creativity to be done tomorrow, woo hoo, have I got a copy for everyone? I'm almost six months into The Creative Identity and not once have I mentioned the workshops. Only once have I mentioned the short story competition which closes at the end of this month. So today I feel like I am high-jacking my own personal space in order to flag up a couple of very important things. The Short Story Competition on Identity closes on 30 June. Enter now! When I launched the competition in March I really didn't know what to expect. A few weeks in, and zero entries to speak of, I started wondering whether setting the same closing date as The Bridport Prize, but with only one-fiftieth of the prize money, was a little... ill-advised. Well, I needn't have worried because it's evident that you're all my sort of people, writers who leave everything... Read more →
