Sunday 11 April 2010

Lucky Owl Writing Necklace


It feels like it's been ages since I last wrote anything on here. Forgive me interweb, for I have been busy doing non-interweb things. Mostly writing, with a spot of gardening, some sitting in the kitchen with my housemates (avec tealights) during a power-cut, reading, making hassleback potatoes, counting words, oh, and making an owl necklace. (And half-pretending to imbue it with magical properties i.e. it is now my 'lucky owl writing necklace'.)

I think it's working, because I recently found out that my story from >kill author, Proxy, has been nominated for the storySouth Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2009. It’s a long list of brilliant stories, and I feel honoured to have made it onto it. Big congratulations also go out to kill author, who won the Million Writers Award for best new online magazine or journal. Yeah! I think I’m a little bit in love with >kill author.

And Dzanc Books have just officially announced the line-up for Best of the Web 2010, which Proxy made it into. I think you can actually pre-order it now, and it’s out in June! Eeek! I’m very excited about that, especially after seeing who else is in it.

Other people who’ve had good news recently:

Jenn Ashworth. Her blog full of fibs has been shortlisted for the Author Blog Awards. Woop! You can sign up and vote here. Do it. Do it now.

Nathan Good and Aimee Wilkinson (who I do TTO/Hello Hub things with) both have stories in the new Tomlit.

And this is good news for people with ears: Biff (TTO/HH) has finished his record and you can listen to some of the songs here.

And...Word Soup is One! There is a Word Soup Birthday Party happening on Tuesday 20th April at the New Continental, in Preston. I'm not 100% sure I can go yet, but I'll be there in spirit if I can't. I think it's going to be ace.

6 comments:

green ink said...

I love the owl necklace! I love anything with owls - I am convinced they are lucky :)

Emma said...

Thanks! Yay, that's two votes for lucky owls.

How did the Arvon course go?

xx

green ink said...

It was great - so much to take in and process...I'm going through my journal to put together a few blog posts about what I did and what I decided. I feel like I went on a bit of a spiritual retreat really :) xx

Emma said...

Ace. I'll look forward to reading all about it! xx

Paul Beal said...

Gardening!

Emma said...

Yup. We have a garden(yard) again. No more jungle for you, sir. Your coconut monkeys don't know what the hell's going on.