not at this point in time
there is a link to the ABC regional short story prize which he won with his first Hartley Manners - story - but I would not post it because this new batch of stories are way better
there is his first Hartley manners story on a link to the ABC > Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:05:50 +0800> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking List Members )> To: [log in to unmask]> > Jennifer - I agree with hubby: writing short stories IS hard work. First> draft can be easy, but then taming the bloody monster is a pain, an> dtime-consuming too. Sometimes takes a long time to make it short ... Can we> see 'em sometime? On a site somewhoere, or so?> > Andrew> > > On 12/10/2007, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:> >> > ha ha i have recently been flogging husband (who is usually an actor or> > director) through 5 short stories for Radio New Zealand.> > He keeps coming disconsalatly (spelling?) out into the family room and> > pathetically moaning - It's such hard work.> > But when I praised them he perked up a bit. And when they accepted them> > and sent him the contract - he perked up even more.> >> > cheers - jen> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:30:13 +0300> From:> > [log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for Lurking> > List Members )> To: [log in to unmask]> > ouch P! or P-ouch, in a> > pouch.> > I write solely for fun as well. I'm trying to get out of> > inadvertent> attempts at grandeur, they're not 'me' really. it stems back to> > a time> when I more or less shamelessly borrowed from Ted Hughes. no more> >> > KS> > On 11/10/2007, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>> > wrote:> > Martin Hey a man of my own heart!! - I like writing it is fun!! It> > gets me> > by ---I can write clichés to get up Finnish Trolls noses :-) and> > I can do> > smilies --and I can have to get a poem done when there is a> > nasty job to do> > around the house-I can put apostrophes in the wrong> > places -and above all it> > brings in piles of money (for cat food mainly)>> > > Cheers P silver surfering> >> > -----Original Message-----> > From:> > Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On> >> > Behalf Of Martin Dolan> > Sent: 11 October 2007 15:19> > To:> > [log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: publishers (Re: A Question for> > Lurking List Members )> >> > I wrote a long ramble in response to this and> > other postings on the> > topic, which I deleted to save you all the effort.> > I left the following> > by way of summary:> >> > Jeez. I write stuff.> > Sometimes I like doing it. Sometimes I don't like> > doing it it, but do it> > anyway. Some people read it or listen to it (most> > don't). Some of them> > like it. More might if they had the chance (most> > still wouldn't). I'd> > probably feel good about pleasing more people. But> > I'd write stuff> > anyway. My day-job pays for it.> >> > Not much of an ars poetica, I know,> > but it works for me.> >> > Regards> >> > Martin> >> > Joseph Duemer wrote:>> > > > Sure, Jon, but this isn't really news, is it? And even if that is the> > main> > > or only reason to publish poems -- to get them on your vita --> > such is the> > > way of the world. Are you suggesting that poetry is too> > pure for such> > social> > > contexts? That appearing in a journal corrupts> > something previously> > > undefiled? And how is the reductive focus of> > getting another line on your> > > vita tied up with the epistemological> > issue of "realness"? Is an> > unpublished> > > poem on your hard drive even> > a poem at all?> > >> > > jd> > >> > > On 10/10/07, Jon Corelis <> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:> > >> > >> The main reason to publish> > poetry is as a credential to prove that> > >> you're a "real" poet. This is> > quite literally the case: there's a> > >> clear hierarchy of prestige among> > journals and book publishers, with> > >> the level of prestige correlating> > exactly to the amount of "realness"> > >> which publication in them confers> > on the poet published in them.> > >>> > >> To put it another way, more> > practically, and more bluntly, the reason> > >> to publish poetry with a> > journal or book publisher is so you can add> > >> the name of that journal> > or publisher to your resume.> > >>> > >> (I seem now to hear from all over> > the world scattered cries of> > >> "EEEK!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...")> > >>> >> > >> --> > >> ===================================> > >>> > >> Jon Corelis> > www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/> > >>> > >>> > ===================================> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> >> > --> > No virus found in this incoming message.> > Checked by AVG Free> > Edition.> > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.14.4/1055 - Release> > Date: 07/10/2007> > 10:24> >> > _________________________________________________________________> > It's simple! Sell your car for just $30 at CarPoint.com.au> >> > http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fsecure%2Dau%2Eimrworldwide%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin%2Fa%2Fci%5F450304%2Fet%5F2%2Fcg%5F801459%2Fpi%5F1004813%2Fai%5F859641&_t=762955845&_r=tig_OCT07&_m=EXT> > > > > -- > Andrew> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/> http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits> http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
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