Something to Look Forward to
October 29, 2024
It's all over! Tea Party of the Gods has had three performances by Theze Guyz, including yours truly, and like the aftermath of any party, I could be suffering post-celebration blues.
The performances took place over two days. Tea Party of the Gods was the third play on, and I'm please to say that half the audience didn't disappear after the first two. I wouldn't say we were faultless, but we still got laughter and applause. Several of the audience approached me afterwards to say how much they had enjoyed the play, and that it had made them think–surely no bad thing. My thanks go to my fellow cast members, technical assistants, and especially to Sarah Love, actress and founder, and director Trevor Smith without whom none of it would have happened.
I've no excuse to feel an anti-climax or to be at a loose end. Apart from having several other projects to get on with, I have some upcoming publications to look forward to. My story, 'Waking the Legend', which won second prize in the Bacopa Literary Competition 2024, is due to be published in the anthology on 1st November. 'No Greater Love' was shortlisted in the Doris Gooderson Award, and another piece, 'Dear John' was shortlisted in the Farnham Flash Fiction July 2024 contest. Completing a quartet of recent successes is my prose poem, 'Night Wanderings', which gained an honourable mention as sixth in its category of the Northwind Writing Award 2024. It will appear in The Northwind Treasury, due out in December. There were more than 800 entries in the four categories, which had to score at least 88 percent from the judges to be shortlisted.
Links for the organisers' websites are:
Bacopa Literary Review2024: https://writersalliance.org/bacopa-literary-review
Doris Gooderson Short Story Competition 2024: https://wrekinwriters.wordpress.com
The Northwind Writing Award: https://raw-earth-ink.com
Farnham Flash Fiction 500 July 2024: https://www.flashfiction500.com
You can wait ages for any work to be a hit, and then four successes come along at once! Not that I'm complaining–I can look forward to four times the fun. I'll post more details when I get them.
Enjoy!
The performances took place over two days. Tea Party of the Gods was the third play on, and I'm please to say that half the audience didn't disappear after the first two. I wouldn't say we were faultless, but we still got laughter and applause. Several of the audience approached me afterwards to say how much they had enjoyed the play, and that it had made them think–surely no bad thing. My thanks go to my fellow cast members, technical assistants, and especially to Sarah Love, actress and founder, and director Trevor Smith without whom none of it would have happened.
I've no excuse to feel an anti-climax or to be at a loose end. Apart from having several other projects to get on with, I have some upcoming publications to look forward to. My story, 'Waking the Legend', which won second prize in the Bacopa Literary Competition 2024, is due to be published in the anthology on 1st November. 'No Greater Love' was shortlisted in the Doris Gooderson Award, and another piece, 'Dear John' was shortlisted in the Farnham Flash Fiction July 2024 contest. Completing a quartet of recent successes is my prose poem, 'Night Wanderings', which gained an honourable mention as sixth in its category of the Northwind Writing Award 2024. It will appear in The Northwind Treasury, due out in December. There were more than 800 entries in the four categories, which had to score at least 88 percent from the judges to be shortlisted.
Links for the organisers' websites are:
Bacopa Literary Review2024: https://writersalliance.org/bacopa-literary-review
Doris Gooderson Short Story Competition 2024: https://wrekinwriters.wordpress.com
The Northwind Writing Award: https://raw-earth-ink.com
Farnham Flash Fiction 500 July 2024: https://www.flashfiction500.com
You can wait ages for any work to be a hit, and then four successes come along at once! Not that I'm complaining–I can look forward to four times the fun. I'll post more details when I get them.
Enjoy!
Posted by K. S. Dearsley. Posted In : Coming Soon
