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Poetry for the half asleep

I’m writing poetry again. Until recently, I hadn’t written poetry since my late teens. Twenty years has passed me by and my love of reading and writing poetry seemed to dwindle into a distant memory. It was only after writing the poem for my Christmas newsletter that I started again. I’m very much a night owl. My brain doesn’t fully engage in a morning – that’s always been the case for me – and so …

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NYCMidnight Short Screenwriting Challenge: Round One

This year I entered the NYCMidnight Short Screenplay Challenge, a competition that challenges writers around the world to create short screenplays (5 pages max) based on genre, location, and object assignments. The competition began at midnight in New York on Friday (5am Saturday for us here in the UK) and the countdown began. Each group was assigned a different genre, location, and object and we all had 28 hours to finish. As I’ve never written a professional …

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