Story Forms.
So, you want to tell a story; you have a brilliant idea that is simply bursting to get out, and you won’t be able to get any rest until you’ve … Continued
Kev Howlett
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Punctuation: Part 1.
I love punctuation. There’s obvious punctuation (and punctuating) you learn in primary school: e.g. full stops, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, the apostrophe, and quotation marks. Bizarrely, in primary school … Continued
Work Experience: My First Day
On a chilly Friday morning, before I was awake, I drove across town to the leafy suburb of Montmorency for my first day of work experience. I could hardly believe … Continued
The Great Novella Search.
What do George Orwell’s Animal Farm, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, Ernest Hemmingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, Albert Camus’s The Stranger, and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis all … Continued
Readings.
When I was enrolling to study (writing and editing) years ago, one of the teachers told me a prerequisite of the course was monthly readings, and that there was an … Continued
Launch.
Whilst Busybird has been around for over fifteen years, for the bulk of that time we were a business focused on design and photography. Our evolution into publishing has been … Continued
And the winner is …
Oh boy, there’s so much happening here at Busybird HQ at the moment and May is going to be the biggest month as we open our doors to the public … Continued
The Short List
After much deliberation, we’ve narrowed down the stories to this shortlist for the [untitled] short story competition for 2013. Winner will be announced on 1 May. Congratulations to these people: … Continued