This week, I'd like to welcome Mandy Huggins back to the Woman on the Edge of Reality. Mandy first appeared here after taking part in the Hysteria Writing Competition and then volunteering as a judge in the flash fiction contest.…
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Hi, this week I'd like to welcome Gail Aldwin to the Thursday Throng. Gail writes every day and loves to see her stories change direction and become more textured through redrafting and editing. Alongside the slog of completing a novel, she enjoys…
Read More Meet Gail Aldwin, author of the short story collection, Paisley Shirt
Hello after a few weeks away and I'd like to introduce Dan Buri to the Thursday Throng. Dan is a writer who has recently published his first collection of short fiction, Pieces Like Pottery. It's an exploration of heartbreak and redemption and the…
Welcome this week Kate Padilla, the author of Save Me San Francisco. Kate is a journalist, writer, blogger and book reviewer living in northwest Iowa with a husband, son and two pugs. The Review Save Me San Francisco is an anthology of…
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Mathias Freese is the author of I Truly Lament: Working through the holocaust; a collection of 27 short stories that reflect a wide variety of perspectives of this seminal event in human history. He is a writer, teacher, and psychotherapist.…
This week, after a short break, I'm really pleased to have on the Thursday Throng author MB Feeney and her short story compilation 'Honour'. She calls herself an 'army brat' who finally settled down in Birmingham. She is currently studying…
This is special edition of the Thursday Throng as this time we are meeting another of the winners of the Hysteria Writing Competition, Sarah Hegarty. One lucky winner will also receive a paperback copy of Hysteria 2, the anthology that…
This week it's my pleasure to welcome Louise West to the Thursday Throng hot seat. Louise is a reader, a teacher, a music-lover and a teller of ghost stories; not the ordinary kind mind you, more the ones that intrigue…
Read More An interview with Louise West, author of Strange Ideas: Death, destiny and decisions