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A Thank You, a Countdown and a New Nudge

Posted on 06/04/2014 by martin Posted in Brittle Star Universe, Competition, Nudges Leave a comment

Thank you to everyone who entered our first open writing competition. We had a little shy of 700 entries – a good mix of poetry and short fiction – which we thought was a fantastic response! Thank you to everyone who helped us to spread the word – it was massively appreciated. The launch of our next issue and the

Nudge # 8 – Move away from the adjective…

Posted on 05/04/2014 by martin Posted in Brittle Star Universe, Nudges 2 Comments

Adjectives. Write 16 lines (or a good-sized paragraph) on the subject of a building (any kind of building is fine) Use no more than 5 adjectives. Try to avoid using adjectives for colour, temperature and texture (e.g. ‘ruddy cheeks’, ‘blistering heat’, ‘rough cloth’) instead try to find a different way of evoking the image or feeling. Have fun! Here’s

Honouring small things

Posted on 19/03/2014 by martin Posted in Brittle Star Universe Leave a comment

There’s a lot of wonderful, exciting happenings in the world of poetry and short fiction, and straddling the South and the East Midlands the way we do lets me and Martin see the breadth of these things up close. (And it’s a decent vantage point to look to the north and the west as well!) But overarching all of this

Writing Competition – Now enter online!

Posted on 02/03/2014 by martin Posted in Brittle Star Universe, Competition Leave a comment

The entries to our very first short fiction and poetry competition are coming in thick and fast. We’re very excited! We’ve had a number of inquiries from writers wanting to submit online (because their banks no longer issue chequebooks) and we’ve now found a way to do this (with massive thanks to web developer Ashok Ganapathy in India for all