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Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 26 Apr 2024 As always, some amazing writing on the site this week, and it's been a hard but very pleasurable task choosing the Picks. Story of the Week is from the wonderful celticman. Characters so vivid you can (quite often) smell them, and dialogue most of us would kill to be able to write. 'Sean Happens 3' is another slice of Glasgow life, and if you haven't read any of celtic's stuff before, this is a great place...

I'm very pleased to announce that we're having another of our brillant online reading events on Saturday May 18th at 7pm! Our reader list fills up very quickly so please let me know asap if you'd like to be included. If you just want to be in the audience you will also need to register. We use Zoom which is so easy even I can use it, but do email me if you need help with setitng up etc The link to register is here: https://us02web.zoom.us/...

We've had to suspend the automatic joining facility for a while so if you would like to join us please email claudine@abctales.com(link sends e-mail) with your desired username and we will set up an account for you. It's all free!

Our Story and Poem of the Month for March very kindly chosen by Jane Hyphen: After much enjoyment, reading and deliberating on the March contributions on ABC tales. My choices are as follows: Story of the Month goes to celticman's Windfall, this wonderful writing brings the memories of a childhood teacher into sharper and sharper focus until it just made my eyes water. Honourable mentions to marandina for the mysterious, York based tale of The...

I'm very pleased to announce that our very own Ewan Lawrie's new novel Bronte's Inferno is available to order now! Publish and Be Damned The narrator is a frustrated novelist, published just twice, under different pseudonyms. Living hand to mouth on what little work he can get as a proof-reader and occasional editor, he lives on the edge of Brontë country in a small town in the Calder Valley. When approached by the mysterious Editor-in-Chief,...