Last month the group made an appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, reading some examples of poetry, stories and even a comedy sketch. Amongst these was a Drabble – a story of exactly 100 words – which is about the way writers’-group members enter lots of competitions! There’s even a Drabble in the group’s anthology “Off The Wall” available from Amazon, which also features recordings of group members reading their stories and poems which you can hear by scanning QR codes alongside the printed versions.
Graham has been writing since before he went to primary school. His work has been featured in a wide variety of publications, and performed at many spoken-word events. He has also been an editor and written non-fiction, journalism and commercial copy.
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Competition
After he’d retired, he’d just sit there, getting paunchier, perpetually entering poetry contests and competitions. If it hadn’t been for his pension, she’d have left him. He’d hoped for a renewed intimacy in their relationship. But she’d disappear into reading books, breaking off only when she could devise some task for him which “needs to be done” as a way of preventing him from entering another competition.
The discovery of the flavourless undetectable toxin in one of her murder stories was an absolute gift. She watched with gleeful anticipation as he licked the envelope flap of his final competition entry.
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