Commonword Blogs

(I had meant to include at this point a web address where apparently they pay for short prose pieces. The info isn't to hand immediately. I know where I can get it from (again). Then you'll know)

Continuing from the last entry, GIVING, yes I have had more of these curious phone-calls that can be made fun of forever more. You'd be thinking probably after a short while doesn't that bloke have a life? I won't stop them, it's at least one way to know what is about...That's the story

And I've wondered what one can put in a regular blog. There surely is enough happening.

Migration to the UK is a story that goes back to Roman times and beyond. The Irish Potato Famine, the flight of the Huguenots from France, and William The Conqueror’s invitation to Jewish people to settle in Britain are just some of the narratives along the timeline.

More recently, the British Empire connected colonised countries to the ‘mothercountry’, two World Wars saw substantial European populations settle in the UK, and the expanding European Union brought further migrations.

The search is on to find the best budding novelist in the North West in our latest competition for long fiction writers!

This time we are searching for the best three opening chapters from a previously unpublished novelist.

The winner will get £250 and their own writing mentor to help them get their novel completed.

Six other promising novelists identified through the competition will be provided with significant assistance with their novel.