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Our Story and Poem of the Month for March, very kindly chosen by onemorething: Reading what’s posted on the site for a month really does give you a sense of the huge range of wonderful writing on ABCtales. And this makes it very hard indeed to choose just one Poem and Story for Pick of the Month. Our Story of the Month is Sooz006’s The Book. Sooz006 has been posting chapters throughout the month, luckily for us. It’s gripping, chilling and...

I'm very pleased to announce that Saltburn, by our very own Drew Gummerson is out now and available to buy here: https://haywoodbooks.com/saltburn May the residents of the real Saltburn-by-the-Sea and neighbouring towns forgive my mermaids, my nuclear power stations, my foetus museums and so on and so on. They were written with love. Welcome to Saltburn, an extraordinary town on the English coast with sweeping poverty and nuclear fallout, where...

Posted by onemorething: Evening all, happy Friday. Our Poem of the Week, this week, is Queen Beatle's excellent Heddiw, dim byd newydd. https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/heddiw-dim-byd-newydd Our Story of the Week is Kings Hall by tanisdt because I love a good ghost story. https://www.abctales.com/story/tanisdt/kings-hall Our new Inspiration Point is here: https://www.abctales.com/inspiration-point-ip Have a lovely weekend and great...

A very happy Spring Equinox to all ABCTalers for yesterday and thank you for the wonderful stories and poems you've posted here this week My choices for today: Poem of the Week goes to queen beatle for her stunning ekphrastic 'Wind from the Sea' https://www.abctales.com/story/queen-beatle/wind-sea Story of the Week is 'A Coming-Together' by Schubert who is on a bit of a roll at the moment https://www.abctales.com/story/schubert/coming-together...

Posted by airyfairy. I was all set to greet you with happy things about the coming of Spring, but then the weather changed its mind again (in my neck of the woods, anyway) and so...happy Spring, Second Winter, Early Summer, whatever is the current state of affairs where you are.

I'm very pleased to announce the publication of 'Gift, a son's story' by Dan Seagrave. Dan writes as HarryC on ABCTales and is one of our most talented writers. You can order your copy here (free on Kindle Unlimited) https://tinyurl.com/4snv2e3n 'In 2016, Dan Seagrave and his family were faced with a decision that faces so many people with elderly relatives. His mother had to go into hospital with a serious illness. While she was in there, it...

Our Story and Poem for the month of February, very kindly chosen by Mark Burrow I enjoyed reading through the different posts over the course of the month and it was nice to see some new ABC'ers on the site. Story of the month goes to HudsonMoon for Goose-Stepping Down Main Street . It could be seen as a little slice of nightmarish dystopia, or perhaps a realistic portrayal of the desperate times we find ourselves in. Either way, it takes skill...

Free online event. Saturday March 22nd 11.30am Six brilliant writers, six great talks! Hosted by author Jennifer McMahon, and including ABCTales very own Mark Burrow whose talk is entitled 'How to be an UNsuccessful Writer' this sounds like a wonderful event! Further details and a link to book your free ticket: https://www.creativecommunitysessions.com/p/get-your-ticket-for-our-march-22nd

Posted by Onemorething: I'll get straight to it. Poem of the Week is the remarkable The Lighthouse Keeper of Ras Gombo by Turlough. https://www.abctales.com/story/turlough/lighthouse-keeper-ras-gombo Beautiful poetry. Story of the Week is one part of beanzie's Martha. Great writing. https://www.abctales.com/story/beanzie/7-martha Always a pleasure to read what's been posted on the site each week. We're very lucky to have such a wonderful and...

Story and Poem of the Week, and Inspiration Point, chosen by di-hard Thank you very much for all your fabulous writing this week! There have been so many brilliant posts, particularly stories inspired by Inspiration Points. After much whittling down of a long and very deserving list - Highly recommended is a heart warming account of an interview, from Itane Vero : https://www.abctales.com/story/itane-vero/having-perhaps-better-claim Also this...