UK Poet Blog, Creative Writing, Essays » News http://www.blog.poet.me.uk UK Poet Ivor Griffiths. Modern Poetry, Essays, Creative Writing Wed, 30 Dec 2015 22:09:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Happy Christmas http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/happy-christmas/ http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/happy-christmas/#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:51:53 +0000 Ivor Griffiths http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/happy-christmas.htm Happy Christmas

Luck is the best bet

]]> http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/happy-christmas/feed/ 0 Forum active at last http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/forum-active/ http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/forum-active/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:32:36 +0000 Ivor Griffiths http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/forum-active.htm After months of delay I have finally gotten round to installing a forum. I haven’t set up the boards yet but will be doing so today, hopefully. Anyway the idea is to have boards dealing with work shopping poetry, flash, short stories, novel extracts, chapters, prologues, plot ideas, character sketches and so on. I am also going to include some boards to discuss Philosophy Literary Theory and Literary Criticism, Book Reviews, Politics, Current Affairs and general chit chat. The last time I created a forum it was deluged by spammers posting crappy links to crappy porn sites. I’ve used Simple Machines this time and it seems better at stopping that rubbish. If you have any ideas for additional boards just let me know.

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It isn’t Gordon Brown’s fault that the US thought that houses make money. But it was his fault that he did. He let the banks, the brokers, the estate agents and all the others with a vested in the rest in ramping up house prices fleece trillions from the economy. He has presided over the ransacking of private sector pensions. He fiercely resists the needed rationalisation (ie redundancies) of the public sector. And of course he had a vested interest in the commissions generated in the housing boom – tax receipts. He ran out of money two years ago, Blair saw it coming and bailed out.

Houses don’t generate wealth, they are for living in. Production creates wealth. Ask the Chinese. They know this.

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http://www.chapteronepromotions.com/literary-agent/literary-agency.htm

]]> http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/literary-agent-uk/feed/ 0 Six Sentences http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/six-sentences/ http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/six-sentences/#comments Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:13:37 +0000 Ivor Griffiths http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/six-sentences.htm I came across a good site that accepts prose submissions some of which are published on the site.

I submitted a piece and It’s going to be published on the 6th December 2007. The website address is http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/.

The site is called six sentences. The the idea is to write, in no more than six sentences, a prose piece. Poetry submissions are not accepted. There are some excellent stories published there, which are often thought provoking and emotive. The standard of writing is high. Some authors cram an amazing amount into six sentences. Flash fiction is fun to write as it is so compact. The challenge of a short story in only six sentences is to be precise, evocative and concise.

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As a qualified lecturer, writer, and published Poet I am ideally suited to review your work honestly and objectively.

If you would like feedback for an assignment you are doing at college, or a piece of work you wish to submit you need a review. It doesn’t matter how many times you read your own work it is impossible for you to be objective. I can provide that service.

With Degrees in English Literature (specialising in American Fiction) Creative Writing, Law and IT as well as Post Grad qualifications in Law and IT. My poetry has been published and will be again. So can your work with an informed reader giving professional and constructive advice.

Prices vary depending on the volume of work you wish to have considered. Contact Me for details.

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If you like to write creatively it’s likely you will also want to have people read your work. The best way to do this, and the easiest, is on the internet. There are loads of forums for writers. In fact I’m creating one myself at www.writingcircle.info.

If you join up you can submit poetry and prose for review and feedback. I am thinking about limiting it to twenty serious writers with the aim of submitting a thousand words of prose and 3 poems per month. So at any given time ten reviews would be needed per month. The forum will be closed to search engines and only registered users wil be able to view the work.

I’m hoping for serious writers to join who want to be published. Perhaps you have completed a degree or post graduate course and want to carry on writing. Perhaps you have been published but want annonymous but informed reviews. Perhaps you just want to be read.

I hope to have a forum up and running soon. In the meantime anyone interested in joining email me.

Cheers

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