ABCtales Autumn Newsletter

Dear ABCtales member,

There’s some great things happening on ABCtales at the moment so I thought it was time to alert you all to them.

First of all we have a new competition based around the theme of ‘nostalgia’. Eminent author Paul Reizin will be the judge, the closing date is 22nd December (but get writing now!) and there’s different sections for poetry and short stories. For full details go here: http://www.abctales.com/node/567559

We also recently passed the 15,000 member mark and our 15,000th member turned out to be Rachel Mbulwa Man’geli who works in a Children’s Library in Mombasa, Kenya. As a result we’re appealing to all of you to send her some books – full details can be found here: http://www.abctales.com/node/567506

Do respond to this appeal if you can – it is almost Christmas after all!

Now, an apology for the problems we’ve had over the past week. As a result the site has had an enforced upgrade and is running very fast and very smoothly at the moment. Every cloud has a silver lining!

We’ve had some fantastic new writers on the site of late and some of them are featured in our Stories and Poems of the Week which showcase the very best of ABCtales. If you haven’t been around lately then catch up with some truly fantastic stories and poems here: http://www.abctales.com/node/546293 and here: http://www.abctales.com/node/546292

This Spring will see the publication of major new novels from two ABCtales writers, Joe Dunthorne and Drew Gummerson – more details of those nearer the time – but for now you can read their work at: http://www.abctales.com/user/spack and here: http://www.abctales.com/user/drew_gummerson

And the last bit of good news concerns ABCtales member Juliet OC who has been awarded a ‘Highly Commended’ in the Commonwealth Short Story competition for her piece ‘In Arms’. Congratulations to Juliet from all of us – for full details of her incredible success see here: http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/culturediversity/shortstory/cssc20...

Juliet’s latest powerful story on ABC can be found here: http://www.abctales.com/story/juliet-oc/just-here-now

So, loads of good news and more to come in the very near future I trust!

All the very best,
Tony Cook and the team.