We have lots going on ~ please see the Calendar page as the right-hand vertical strip isn’t working properly! Thanks.
Do you write flash fiction?
If so, do take a look at:
- a free 50-word story competition (on Morgen’s blog ~ editing, mentoring and/or courses as prizes) ~ closes the last day of each month
- an inexpensive ‘300 Words’ Flash Fiction Competition (on this site ~ shared prize pot with 50% going to the top three, the other 50%* to the our three charities!.. *minus PayPal fee) ~ closes every other month (next 31st July)
Do give them a go!
New Feature: Spotlights… Tell Us About Your… Books… Service
You may have caught a couple of T&T Panels I recorded featuring other authors’ books. This has become a natural follow-on from the Spotlights feature where authors (and open to everyone!) talk about their writing-related journey. The recording below talks more about this…
T&T #30 ~ Tuesday 28th July: Morgen talking about Spotlights and Tell Us About Your Books…
Tell Us About Your Books – Susannah Hockham
This evening I chatted with Susannah Hockham about her debut…
T&T #28 ~ Tuesday 21st July: tell us about your books ~ Susannah Hockham ~ with Morgen hosting
These are free events but we’re raising money for local book-related charities and we’d be really grateful if you would donate whatever you afford via the Charities & Donate page. Thank you so much.
Tell Us About Your Books #2
Yes for the 21st Monday Midday Mini-fest, today, 13th July, was the second ‘Tell us about your books’ this time, host Morgen featured five books by Christian CPM Winship. Christian, if you read this, do join us another time and read from one or more of them!
These are free events but we’re raising money for local book-related charities and we’d be really grateful if you would donate whatever you afford via the Charities & Donate page. Thank you so much.
Just lil’ ole me for book reviews
Yes, for the T&T #25 on Tuesday 7th July it was just me (Morgen) talking about book reviews ~ I will be running this topic again…
The all-day online festival on Sunday 5th July was fantastic!
What a wonderful day we had on Sunday 5th July 2026 at the second online festival! The schedule was:
- 10am: editing panel
- 11.30am: cover design, illustrations and book formatting panel
- 1pm: what else do you need before your book is published?
- 2.30pm: publishing
- 4pm: marketing/advertising inc. social media, website design etc.
The recordings are on Morgen’s YouTube channel and https://self-pub-fest.co.uk/online-jan-july/5-july-2026-festival.
And I’m delighted to announce that instead of being every six months, the online festival will be every OTHER month, from September, on the SECOND Sunday of the month. See FULL-DAY (Online) page for the dates and topics. Do suggest topics for the ‘tba’ sessions.
Bye bye Saturdays, hello ‘Tell us about your books’
I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to share my short stories and listen to others’ stories and poetry but Saturday evenings are busy for all of us so I’ve decided to stop the ‘Short Story & Poetry Saturdays’ in favour of new ‘Tell us about your books’ which will take place:
- the first Monday of each month as part of Monday Midday Mini-fests at noon most Mondays
- the last Tuesday or Thursday of the month (depending which comes last) as part of T&T Panels.
You can see what’s coming up on the Calendar page…
Damiano, Jackie and Morgen chat about book covers
For the twenty-fourth T&T on Thursday 2nd July, Damiano Polcaro, Jacqueline Lambert talked about book covers with Morgen hosting. Click on the ‘play’ button below to see the whole recording (just under an hour)…
T&T #22 ~ Advice for Wannabe Writers
Join Morgen and historical novelist and short story author Ali Bacon as they discuss what they’ve learned over the 2+ decades and provide tips for not only anyone looking to write but those who already do but would like to learn more. Ali mentions Emma Darwin’s Substack: https://www.emmadarwin.com/this-itch-of-writing.
Tonight was all about podcasts and there’s a new page!
As part of the T&T Panels on 16th June 2026 Sarah ‘SJ’ Banham and Morgen talked about podcasts. The recording is here.
Morgen used to host ‘Bailey’s Writing & Editing Tips’ (see first picture) but that’s on hold at the moment. She does currently host the ‘300-Words A Day’ daily writing prompt podcast, available currently on Spotify but will hopefully be elsewhere in the not-too-distant future, starting with Substack, inspired by Sarah’s recent move there.
Because of today’s session, Morgen’s created a new page within the Information area of this site: Podcasts.