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Cerasus Poetry 2024

Posted by Cerasus Poetry on Sun, 10 Dec 2023

Poets, get those manuscripts ready.

Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), BBC 3, BBC iPlayer, Screenwriter Nick Naveda, based on novel of the same name by Julia Walton, Director Thor Freudenthal.

Posted by celticman on Sat, 09 Dec 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001sg02/words-on-bathroom-walls https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001sg02#credits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_on_Bathroom_Walls Words on Bathroom Walls was a 2020 release and mainstream movie. It had a budget of over $9 million. Yet it only took around a third of that at the Box Office. If it looks like a turkey and sounds like a turkey… But it’d be a mistake to think that. Some movies like Pretty...

Ben-Hur (2016) Film4, Screenplay by Keith Clarke and John Ridley, Based on Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880) novel by Lew Wallace, Directed by Timur Bekmambetov

Posted by celticman on Fri, 08 Dec 2023

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/ben-hur-2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(2016_film) I was flicking through the channels. I couldn’t understand why they were putting Ben-Hur on in a premium time slot. I’d fond memories of Ben-Hur, being generally a sucker for Biblical epics when I was a kid in the La Scala. The type where Jesus’s shadow touches Victor Mature’s face in The Robe . I can’t really remember what happened next. No doubt...

Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Fri, 08 Dec 2023

As we lurch towards Christmas and the music whenever you step into a shop becomes more and more raucous, ABCTales is such an oasis of creativity in which to take a pause. Thank you all so much for being a part of it I have a couple of very honourable mentions for you first this week - Turlough's 100 words a day This Sort of Thing is an absolute pleasure to read, and Rhiannonw's walk Up to the Hoar Frost an icy delight. Do read them: https://www...

Walrussey by Bex Hainsworth (ABCTales Poet Mistaken Magic)

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Wed, 06 Dec 2023

Well this definitely deserves a place on our front page: Bex Hainsworth who wrote on ABCTales as Mistaken Magic has published her first poetry anthology. Not only that, but one of the poems in the collection, ‘An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World’ has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by her publisher, The Black Cat Poetry Press. Very big congratulations to her! I'm sure most of you won't remember me, but this site was such an...

Three Faces, BBC 4, BBC iPlayer, written, directed and produced by Jafar Panahi

Posted by celticman on Tue, 05 Dec 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001swt5/three-faces https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001swt5#credits This is one of those films I watched which I didn’t really enjoy. For some reason I believed it would be cartoonish. I was thinking of something or somebody else. But it was a conventional film. I’m not sure certain why it was called Three Faces? Perhaps three faces of Iran (I’m not sure what they are either). I’ll do what I usually do...

Who's Aldo by Colin Burnett - Out Now!

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Tue, 05 Dec 2023

Who's Aldo? by ABCTales writer Colin Burnett is published by Tippermuir Books and avaiable now! Link to order and wonderful review by Ewan Lawrie below: Who’s Aldo? By Colin Burnett I first came across Colin Burnett on the writing site ABCTales.com, where an early draft of Aldo’s first outing. ‘A Working Class State of Mind’ was available to read for a while. As I recall many members were stunned by the authentic, vibrant voice(s) in the writing...

Story and Poem of the Month

Posted by Insertponceyfrenchnamehere on Sun, 03 Dec 2023

Our Story and Poem for the month of November, very kindly chosen by Sean McNulty: STORY AND POEM OF THE MONTH As we reach the foot of the year, it falls on me to choose work from the month of November, a task which is always difficult, no matter how clichéd a line that is. Poem of the Month goes to rhyme-master Luigi Pagano for Total Quality Management. Even with serious subjects such as climate change or in this case the plight of the worker,...

Newcastle Noir 2023 - December. One week to go when I meet up with my tribe

Posted by Robert Craven on Sat, 02 Dec 2023

https://heyzine.com/flip-book/84d0324158.html?fbclid=IwAR3dWB7JCVQnTbz9L... One week to go! Normally, I wouldn't post anything about an author event, but this appearance, flying in from Dublin to this event is literally three years in the making. I met the festival director, Dr Jacky Collins in 2019 at the Bloody Scotland Festival in Stirling. I was part of the final group of authors selected to pitch to a panel of editors and industry...

Christmas Present

Posted by philwhiteland on Fri, 01 Dec 2023

As today (1st December) marks the start of the official countdown to Christmas, I'm making my Christmas book (Kindle version), 'A Christmas Cracker' FREE for one day only. Apart from an alternative version of the Nativity and a wry take on those 'round robin' Christmas cards we all get, you'll also find some tales of my Christmas Past and the first ever Josiah and Archibald Christmas story. Grab it while you can, ho, ho, ho! https://getbook.at/...

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