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Where do we go for inspiration, procrastination or when we fancy a good read?

Thresholds is an International Post-Graduate short story forum which runs
some very interesting articles and interviews, writing exercises and more. The
site is based at the University of Chichester in the UK.

Year Zero Writers share our belief that writing is for readers and readers can
download a number of short stories and poems on this site. Posts are incisive  
and provoke interesting comment.

A site that blew our minds when we first fond it is Worldometers delivering
real-time stats on population, healthcare, world resources and media. If you
want to know how many days are left before we run out of oil then this is your
site!

In a similar vein, the Day and Night World Map is an excellent way to see who
might be having breakfast/sleeping/going out for the evening around the
globe!

If you fancy your chances with the BBC then their Writer's Room is the place to
go. There are regular links to competitions and they accept unsolicited
mss...just make sure you have done your research first!

META4 brings a cool mix of short stories, poetry and a selection of video shorts
from all across the literary canon (including a Norman Mailer 'bathroom
monologue'}...

Between the Lines is writer Alison Bacon's blog which has featured interviews
with other excellent creative writers ...Viccy Adams invites us to know her
better through her site where you can listen to her read her work...sometimes
Viccy can be found hanging out at Incwriters too...

For all things Texan we recommend Trees of Heaven, a site inspired by The
Lone Star State and promoting original works about Texas...You will find Erica
Verrillo there too...

Virginia Moffatt also has her own place on-line. It's great to be able to see
what everyone is up to, what they are working on, reading etc...

New to us last year was the National Short Story Week event. Another fabulous
initiative to promote the short story form...

Book Aid International caught our eye recently with their reverse book token
and reverse book club where £6.00 a month buys 3 books you will never see!
The cool thing is that you can also support them from the US...


Tales of Ancient Suburbia   The official Blog from JF Chavoor with over forty
stories chronicling a land before now!  This is the place to go if you enjoy the
stories by JF Chavoor which we present here.

Mrs Darcy vs The Aliens  With his tongue firmly in cheek Jonathon Pinnock
brings us his 'slightly demented sequel' to Pride and Prejudice.  This is
brilliant stuff and definitely worth the effort of a click through.  Go and read it
now!

A Brief Survey of the Short Story  Chris Power at the UK Guardian is currently
bringing us a look at the state of the short story form and  its proponents
'through the ages'.  The series has been running since 2007 and currently
features a certain Mr Tolstoy.  Surely after 'War and Peace' anything he wrote
must seem short?

Karen Russell reads "from Children's Reminiscences of the Westward
Migration"  We found this on Youtube.  Karen Russell is speaking at the
Aquinas' Contemporary Writers Series. This terrific story starts with the
premise that the Minotaur pulled a wagon on the Oregon Trail.  Brilliant!  
Enjoy!

While you are there check out what our hero Kurt Vonnegut had to say about
how to go about writing a short story!

The British Council  has honoured us with a link on their creative writing links
page.  We are in some good company there and think you should check them
out.

Diran Adebayo has put up a reading from his new novel (publication date still
to be announced) "The Ballad of Dizzy and Miss P".  Another tale telling to pass
the time in quality company!  The link on the page is a subtle one so you must
scroll down to find it.  Worth the effort folks!  Go and enjoy!

The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts  has made it onto our bookcase.  This is the
Write Idea Whittaker Prize-winner's collection of short stories and poetry.  
2009 was a plum year for this writers' group.  We recommend it!

In The Grove  This site features writers from the promised land of California.  
They do not publish authors from anywhere else!  Read Bethany E Chaney's
"Learning The Alphabet".

We have recently started looking at directory service sites. One of our current
favourites is called Duotrope. It claims to offer links to over 2400 current
literary sites and has a submissions tracker which keeps you up to date with
your success rate!  The page we have linked to gives a link back here in
amongst the long list of sites beginning with O!

If you have found us through Duotrope then a warm welcome to you!  If stats
are your thing then we can tell you that we usually reply to all submissions
within fourteen days. Our acceptance rate is currently approximately 50%.

What we found interesting about the stats on Duotrope was that some people
were reporting very long response times. It would seem that a wait of between
100 and 370 days is not unusual. Everyone who works on this Project also
writes and submits work regularly, so we know what waiting for feedback can
be like. If you have not heard from us within 14 days from the date of
submission then do not hesitate to e-mail the editor at  
submissions@millionstories.net .

Last year we all made a resolution that this year we would submit to Liar's
League and support their work as much as we could. They certainly manage to
attract some excellent writing and we will definitely be paying one of their
performance nights a visit if we get the opportunity.

The judges have been announced for the Orange Prize for Fiction, which is now
in its fifteenth year. You can read about the competition on the Books Trust
site.

We hope you like what we do here at One Million Stories. If you do then please
tell as many people as you can to drop by for a read!

We have been checking out the blogging worlds of some of our contributors.
Read about the hell of life in a crazy-busy airport in the UK at A Week At The
Airport , read about the happy life of a writer as he puts his next novel
together in  the USA at Sketches by Plumboz , or read what's on the mind of
another writer whizzing around Australia with Lilit Hotham .

We have been checking out all the great stuff that The Book Trust does in the
UK. You're right, our website is for adults but there are a lot of great resources
for so-called grown-ups here too.

The Write Idea is a friendly procrastination station with weekly writing
challenges and nice community feel. It has poetry, novel, and playwriting
sections  and runs it's own competitions. It has also pointed us in the direction
of the Canadian Press Globe and Mail which is running short stories all
summer.  We liked Tapka by David Bezmozgis.

The Short Story: This is a favourite with links to the BBC National Short Story
Award, a Short Story challenge, news and reviews, with links to competitions
and magazines galore...

There are so many writers with so many pages of stories on the Internet that if
we never ever hit a million right here at least we can point you in the direction
of many more.

We have been reading C.D. Crabtree's site recently and have been reading
another Mark Tomlinson tale at Bewildering Stories.

In other news we have just downloaded the March Issue of Semaphore
Magazine. Not sure what we're going to find, but isn't that most of the fun?

We have been going on about Literary Festivals since we sent off for our
tickets to the London Literary Festival, but did you know that the UK lays
claim to being the birthplace of the phenomenon.  Check out the British
Council's directory of British Events!

But there are many more in the US of A.

And more in Canada!

And a whole bunch of stuff in Oz and NZ!

Tell us what's going on in your neighbourhood!

Don't forget to drop in on your favourite authors.  You can find many
contemporary writers at another British Council resource.

You Write On: Is a favourite peer review website where you can post short
stories, novel extracts, even get your magnum opus published. Membership is
free, the site is sponsored by the Arts Council of England, and popular tales can
qualify for professional feedback. The list goes on. Fantastic... Polish up your
next short story with their help and send it in to us!

You can still read a story from International Booker Winner Alice Munro by
clicking on the link below, which will take you to the New
Yorker-coincidentally, the publication that Karen Russell writes for too...
Dimension


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