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Huge thanks to everyone who came to our reading night yesterday in London, it was so lovely to see you all, and there were many fabulous performances, some of which we managed to film, and we will hopefully be sharing those with you soon. Special thanks to Mark Say for the organisation and for being a brilliant MC, and to Richard (blightersrock) for the auction which raised a very tidy amount to help keep us going (and I have now got some great...

Two brilliant pieces this week. Congratulations to elsie katz for her wonderful transcription of her father's piece of life writing 'Shlamek', and to kilb50 for his beautiful poem 'The Wall' https://www.abctales.com/story/elsie-katz/shlamek https://www.abctales.com/story/kilb50/wall The Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip - I hope you enjoy it! Lastly, don't forget our Reading Night is coming up next week...

Big thanks to Hudsonmoon for his choices for April: April Picks This poem grabbed me, tossed me in a spin cycle and wouldn’t let go until that wonderful ending. Bravo, longrunninspatula. Spin Cycle by longrunningspatula https://www.abctales.com/story/longrunningspatula/spin-cycle The List touched me in very personal way. It made me sad, but it made me smile, as well. I remember well the tears and laughter in my own life and this piece mirrored...

Nine days to go until our brilliant Reading Night! We have a fabulous line-up of readers and I hope to see lots of you there. All necessary information below, and if you have any further queries do get in touch with mark@abctales.com https://www.abctales.com/blog/insertponceyfrenchnamehere/abctales-readin... Blighters rock will be holding an auction on the night to raise funds for a very good cause (us!) and he's sent me the following to whet...

Hello all, It’s really good to be able to continue with poetry monthly and hopefully get all the wonderful, abc-ers creative juices flowing. This month’s idea is Into the Blue! As usual, interpret the focus in exactly the way you feel like – think blue, May skies (here’s hoping!). Think of things appearing and disappearing. Of blues’ songs. Of horizons opening out. Of mood indigos. Think sadness and freedom. Think all of these things and none of...

Posted by airyfairy on Sat, 29 Apr 2017 I hesitated over the Story of the Week - not because I wasn't sure exactly what I was going for, more that it could have been either a story or a poem. In the end I've called it a story, but johnshade's brilliant 'Citalopram - Prelude' really defies categorisation: https://www.abctales.com/story/johnshade/citalopram-prelude The week's IP provided the Poem of the Week - Ewan's 'Hooray For The Circus'...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 21 Apr 2017 A touch of light and dark in our poem and story of the week this week. Thanks to catherine poarch for a glittering poem: https://www.abctales.com/story/catherine-poarch/only-one-song Also to Terrence Oblong for a brilliant piece of satire: https://www.abctales.com/story/terrence-oblong/civil-war The media circus comes to town again in the run-up to the June elections - so our inspiration point for this...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 14 Apr 2017 There's been some wonderful stuff on the site this week. A number of our writers have posted thought provoking, sometimes angry, sometimes sad, pieces about the terrible conflicts in our world. Lille Dante and Ewan's pieces particularly stuck in my mind, but as Poem of the Week I've gone for Philip Sidney's 'Night Flying in North Wales: https://www.abctales.com/story/philip-sidney/night-flying-north-wales...

I am very pleased to be able to tell you that the lovely Noo is going to be taking over Poetry Montly, starting at the beginning of May. We have such a brilliant team of people who offer their precious time to keep ABCTales a vibrant and supportive community and I am so grateful to all of them - thank you!

Two stand-out brilliant pieces this week: Sam Hennig's wonderful 'Nike' is our Poem of the Week and airyfairy's word perfect tribute to her mother - 'The List' is our Story of the Week. Well deserved congratulations to both: https://www.abctales.com/story/samhennig/nike https://www.abctales.com/story/airyfairy/list Here's the Inspiration Point: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Finally, our readers' list for the ABCTales get together...