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We're very grateful to Stephen Thom for picking our Story and Poem for the month of October: Poem of the Month goes to 'November' by onemorething, which has beauty, weight and honesty in abundance, and which stood out for me as one of the most wonderful things about this type of expression; the ability to take our darker moments, hold them, and turn them into something beautiful, cathartic and vital: https://www.abctales.com/story/onemorething/...

ABCtales Virtual Reading Night We’re delighted to be holding our second Virtual Reading on Saturday 28th November, running from 19:00 to 21:00 (UKT). Building on the success of our last event in August, we’ll be lifting any lockdown blues with a mix of poetry and prose from our fantastic members at ABCtales. Please fill in your details; you’ll then receive an email confirming your acceptance. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpd-...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 23 Oct 2020 We've had some delicious pieces this week but poem of the week goes to Queen Beatle with a bone-crunching morsel: https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/falcons-regret story of the week is heart-warming take on enduring love from Ice Rivers: https://www.abctales.com/story/ice-rivers/bangers-galway-hooker here's the inspiration point: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Philip Sidney's...

Big congratulations this week to sean mcnulty for his two parter 'Phil Longley Was Still There' which is our Story of the Week and to D Marie for 'House Ghost' which is our Poem of the Week. Both brilliant! https://www.abctales.com/story/d-marie/house-ghost https://www.abctales.com/story/sean-mcnulty/phil-longley-was-still-there Here's the Inspiration Point: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip and I hope you all have a wonderful...

Lots of wonderful things to read on the site this week, and our Picks are two absolute gems.

More publishing success from one of our poets. This time it's D Marie, whose poetry collection Inner Nature is just out on Amazon. Here's what she says about it: Inner Nature is a small collection of imaginative nature poems with a central theme on inner and outer environments. Some are written from the perspective of nature, while others are based on past personal challenges, and ends with an emphasis on unity and light; not just on a personal...

Our Story and Poem for the month of September have very kindly been chosen by Parson Thru: Poems Great poetry pieces to choose from this month. In the end, Coolhermit’s poem “Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)” hooked me with its cruel but unavoidable parody of pub readings. It’s a great piece of contemporary realism with grittiness and soul. Crucially, it turns; only for the burning bush to vanish in smoke and be quenched by...

Very pleased to let you know Ewan has reached the shortlist for the Poetry Book Awards with 'Last Night I Met John Alcock' published by Cerasus Press. All details here: https://mailchi.mp/2749dd86b5e2/writers-news-wales-oct-2020?e=9a53484c1c... And you can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1726692329/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp... Big congratulations to him and fingers all crossed!

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 25 Sep 2020 Another week in paradise - oh well, at least we have writing and reading to help us through tough times. Thank you to all of you have contributed this week - you do more good than you know. Poem of the week is a dark one - but anxiety is running high and I think many of us can relate -many thanks to London_Calling for Run: https://www.abctales.com/story/londoncalling79/run We've had a few darkly funny...

Thanks to Mark Burrow's tecchie skills, you can now see the ABC Tales Virtual Reading Event on our YouTube channel!