Shark Bytes and Tales

Accidentally Yours, a collection of short stories, poems, and essays, by Joan H. Young is now available as an eBook from Amazon and S...

One of my goals for the year was to bring out an anthology of my varied short writings-- stories, essays and poems. However, the amou...

3288 Review This summer, I had a short story accepted to the literary magazine, 3288 Review. My complementary copy arrived today. Swe...

Edited by Dorothy Mae Mercer, this collection of short stories and excerpts by 14 authors can give you a taste of many different work...

A group of authors, most of whom became acquainted through the Accentuate Writers' Forum, banded together to create an anthology o...

  A month or so ago I entered a short story in the first-ever venue for writers at the Grand Rapids Art Prize. I entered a story I like a l...

  Just for fun, and so anyone can get to know Anastasia Raven and her friends in Forest County, here's a FREE short story from De...

Twin Trinity Media is offering some of their short stories for free on Smashwords this week. You have two more days to get "Toby ...

Well, I worked up some courage and submitted a short story to Glimmer Train . "One of the most respected short-story journals in pr...

We received our length and topic paragraph at noon Central Time today. Length is not to exceed 850 words. Entries are due by noon Sunday. T...

My short story, "Toby and Harry," can now be purchased for only 79¢ at Twin Trinity Books. This story is out of the norm for me,...

Escape Into Life is excited to announce its First Annual Fiction Contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. The ...

I've decided to enter the 24-hour short story contest sponsored by Writers Weekly. It could be fun and the prizes are good. The entry ...

My short story, Toby & Harry, is now available for purchase at Smashwords. This story is being managed by Twin Trinity Books where it w...

The Star City Blog sent me a message. "We regret to inform you that due to insignificant participation, Star City Blog was forced to ca...

Quarterly, the Ludington Visiting Writers present an evening of short story readings interspersed with musical interludes. This past Frida...

This may be getting really close! Yesterday I received what I hope are the final edits for "Toby and Harry." I have been told tha...

I know that ideas are cheap, but no completed project happens without an idea that started it. One of my pet peeves is the idea that for a...

The short story is sent off to the Star City Blog Short Story Contest . Another writer friend read it as well, and she thinks it's pre...

Accepting criticism, even constructive criticism, is a learned skill. No one really likes to be told that they haven't done a good job. ...