Review ~ A Flash of Fiction

My review of A Flash of Fiction on Amazon appeared last night. This is the Worcestershire Literary Festival‘s anthology edited by Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn. I thought you might like to read about it too I’ve got some for Christmas gifts. It’s a great read. My friends will love it

Click on the image if you’d like to buy a copy.

Fabulous Flashers

Get with the programme ~ get onto some of the funkiest fiction around!

The most talented writers in and outside the UK entered the first Worcestershire Literary Festival Flash Fiction Competition in 2012.

This absolute stonker of an anthology is the result!

Why buy just one story, when you could have 48 selected offerings?

Winner, Amy Rainbow, was a double finalist. Her winning Flash ‘Father and Son’ is a heart-rending story, marvellous to mix emotions so quickly in such a brief tale.

Second prize went to Anna Cullum for `Jasmine and Wet Grass’ in which two cultures talk across a divide.

In third place Emily Pardo’s ‘Adagio’, music to our ears.

PW Bridgman’s ‘Ad Te Clamamus …’ is a brilliant exposition of Irish Catholic life and the relationship between a young couple and her family. Andy Kirk’s ‘Contract to Retire’ has a wonderful twist in the tale and ditto Alan Durham’s ‘At First Sight’.

Every Flash in this anthology has much to recommend it, from the creativity and imagination shown by the writers to the skills and techniques used to keep us engaged.

Recommended every step of the way ~ well done Editor Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn.

Updated: Morning Town Ride

English: Congestion on the London Underground

As it’s nearly Christmas, here’s a special treat. A slight re-write to one of my favourite poems, and it seems, yours ~ it was selected for and published in the first edition of Nain Rouge and again in Girl’s Got Rhythm.

Morning Town Ride

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

Like a
toothpaste
tube of the
hunched up,
bunched up,
crunched up,
swilled and
SPIT at
station
drain.

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

Oh oh,
get some
mouthwash.
Don’t breathe
on me
please;
last night’s
garlic
was good,
last night.

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

Finger phones,
mobiles,
mails,
thumb apps,
flickr,
angry birds,
twitter.
Overheat,
a mass,
morass

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

of smells.
Standing
room only.
Balance,
read ‘Free
Metro’, or
‘Kindle’.
Hang from
bars like
sensible
apes (phew!)

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

Save
yourself!
bump,
lurch,
sway,
sway.
Hear
wheels,
tracks,
screech.

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

iPod,
earbuds,
bleeding tracks,
jiggle.
Fan face,
cool down,
heat up,
moist hot
heaps of
humanity …
ride …

On …
morning
town ride.

chackety chack
chackety chack
chackety chack

Polly Robinson © 2012

Girl’s Got Rhythm

Girl’s Got Rhythm ~ a lovely gift

Find your favourite poems in this, my first poetry collection. Six foot four – Sunflower, Mother of Pearl, He Drinks Blood ~ something for everyone.

Available on Kindle ~ if you’re in the UK and would prefer a paperback copy just let me know and I’ll send you one ~ £5 plus p&p ~ also available via Amazon ~ and in the USA from Lulu and Amazon

And … especially for wee folk ~ Six Small Beasties – and a Lullaby the perfect bedtime read ~ a week’s worth! Get it on Kindle or from Lulu

Fusion ~ the Anthology from Fantastic Books Publishing

I entered the Fantastic Books 2012 short story competition and am delighted two of my stories not only made it to the shortlist (final ten) but are also included in this anthology ~ published on Kindle and very reasonably priced ~ an excellent Christmas gift ~ or just treat yourself! Click on the image below for more details.

The collection Fusion is compiled from the winners of the Fantastic Books Publishing International Charity Short Story Competition 2012 and features 2 stories from professional contributors Danuta Reah and Stuart Aken.

10% of the proceeds from the book will be donated to the WCRF (World Cancer Research Fund) ~ I like that very much.

Launch day! There it was … gone!

It’s launch day! At least, it was when I first put this post up! Now it’s been and gone and we had a great time, the hub got me a cake with the book cover (marvellous) and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves.  Many, many thanks to everyone who performed and to all my guests ~ it really was a special night ~ there’s a slideshow of the photos taken by Geoff at the base of this blog.

So, for those of you who don’t know what this is all about, Girl’s Got Rhythm, my debut poetry collection, is available on Kindle and if you’d like a paperback version you can get one if you’re in the USA from Lulu ~ if you’re in the UK just let me know and I’ll send you a copy £5 plus p&p. The paperback will become available via Amazon in a few weeks.

The cake!

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And … there’s a wee book for wee folk too ~ published 29 October 2012 Six Small Beasties – and a Lullaby the perfect stocking filler and bedtime read ~ a week’s worth! Available on Kindle (click on the image below) or at £1.70 plus p&p from me ~ just let me know