PICS FROM WEST CORK

There are some stunning photos of the West Cork Lit Fest up, hundreds of them, with a link from the website. All taken by Michael Thorsnes.

Including a few utterly ghastly ones of yours truly, not smiling, looking like Boadacea on a bad Tuesday.

But here's one, the reading of Michael Logan's winning story We Will Go Ahead And Wait For You at the launch of the Fish Anthology 2008.

Smashing backdrop!!

CADENZA FINALS SOON. THEN A WEEK IN IRELAND

Timely, then.

Concentrating on reading the Cadenza shortlisted stories yesterday and again today. I will have my proposed 1/2/3 and a few commendeds sorted by this evening. Ready to discuss with Zoe, the editor.

The bliss...tomorrow packing, then:

A whole week in Bantry at the West Cork Literary Festival, where I'm beetling about all over the place, being useful. (I hope!)

I'm reading Michael Logan's wonderful One Page Story at the Fish Publishing Awards Ceremony. (He won e1000... it's terrific.)

I'm organising a flash competition which runs all week, in which writers submit the next 100 words each day to a story entitled Multi Storey.

Reading myself on Thursday 10th at Bantry Bookshop.

This is where I find out the names of the winners of the Fish One Page Prize... from the Fish website, published today.

and the titles and authors are:


WINNER


WE WILL GO ON AHEAD AND WAIT FOR YOU by MICHAEL LOGAN - GLASGOW, SCOTLAND



RUNNERS-UP:

MY NAME IS FOR MY FRIENDS - KEVEN SCHNADIG, NEW YORK, USA

THE BASKET - NICK HODGKINSON, BRISTOL, ENGLAND

MILK RUN - BRUCE STIRLING, CONNECTICUT, USA

THE BUSTERS - FIONA RITCHIE WALKER, BLAYDON, ENGLAND

THE THEME FROM (LOVE STORY) - KURT ACKERMANN, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

BLEAR - ALAN MURPHY, DUBLIN, IRELAND

I was fascinated to see who the writers were. And am nodding to myself about the maleness of the crew. I know Fiona Ritchie Walker's name. I just looked up the winner. He's a journalist with short fiction credits already. One to watch?

And I'm delighted at the geographic spread!! Wheee.

1 Scotland,
1 Ireland
2 England
2 USA
1 South Africa


Good old Fish. A truly international competition with truly international winners.