I hereby declare this blog a meme-free zone.
Ive been researching what they are. Having started off as some scientific jargon for interchange of cultural ideas (or something that takes Wikipedia several acres of screen space to define) they seem to have been appropriated by the blogging world.
I found one really useful one that suggested participants should take photos of their knickers. That sounds really useful, in some circles!
Being of sound and sometimes open mind, I'd love to hear from anyone who has something good to say about them.
Why are they not just a pointless timewaster?
My novel in progress is supported by a Grant for the Arts
SHORT CIRCUIT -A Guide to the Art of the Short Story. (Salt Publishing, Nov. 2009)
"A gold mine of insights and ideas..." -The Bridport Prize organisers...
'Riveting...'. (Mslexia)
Waterstone’s says: "...some of the most beautifully crafted and engrossing stories that one can read..." The Asham Award website says: "This stunning range of work is not afraid to explore the darker side of human emotion, yet allows us to see the light which often wavers at the end of the bleakest and longest tunnel. These beautifully written stories are in the best literary tradition, lyrical yet understated. "
Field Guide to Flash Fiction, Rose Metal Press, USA
an exhaustive, thoughtful, idea-producing guide to one of the lesser-known forms of literary expression, the short short story - Anne Bernays
About Me
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100 STORIES FOR HAITI
Available from the publisher, Bridge House, or from Amazon, Waterstones online etc etc. All profits to Red Cross
Something that never went away...
I have three pieces in this marvellous anthology, published by the adoption charity, AAA-NORCAP
ONE WORLD - A GLOBAL ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES
New Internationalist April 2009
Fish Anthology 2008
Forewords from the fiction judges, Carlo Gebler and self
Fish Prize 2007
Bridport Prize 2007
“The best of new writing from the winners of one of the toughest open writing competitions in the English language.”
Willesden Herald New Short Stories 1,
Etchings (Australia)
Tales of the Decongested II
Safe World Gone Anthology Honno 2007
ORBIS 149
Fish Prize Anthology 2006
See You Next Tuesday Anthology II
Better Non Sequitur press, USA
Creative Commons License
A Shameless Lion
Awarded by Charles Lambert...
GUD Magazine
Bravado (New Zealand)
.Cent Magazine, Spring 2009
Riptide
Thema (USA)
Penumbra
Birmingham Arts Journal
Refuge
Stories from Brighton's refugees and asylum seekers
5 comments:
Well I knew it was a Mimi free zone.
That's the problem with society these days, it's all meme meme meme...
Ah, well spotted, Sherlock!
maybe Mimi has transmogrified herself into a global timewasting virus?
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If someone dropped me an e-mail and said, "Jim, we're getting really bored with you waffling on about literary things all the time. Why don't you give us a break and list half a dozen things that interest you that have nothing to do with books or writing in any shape or form?" then that would be fine, a nice wee distraction but it's being expected to impose the meme onto your friends that annoys me.
The first meme I did I didn't even know was a meme. I saw a site where someone listed where they we at 10, 20 and 30 years earlier so, being that bit older, I did up to 50 years. That was a bit of fun, something different. The second one someone sent me and I was so embarrassed having to tag people that I've sworn never to do one again. If the topic interests me then I might blog about it but I'm not playing the meme game again.
You saved yourself from being tagged by a whisper, Vanessa!
ha! thanks Charles... and I greatly appreciated Glass Bubble being mentioned on your responses... lovely to think of being out there on an Italian desk!
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