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My name is Larry Brooks, and I’d like to thank you for visiting here at Storyfix.
ABOUT THIS BLOG…
(Updated 02/24/15)
Here’s the intro elevator pitch for those who like their “About” sections short and sweet.
I’m a career writer from the corporate sector who, like most of you, had nourished the fiction writing dream the entire time. I’ve since published six novels, a couple of them with modestly respectable resumes, all of them nicely reviewed. I’ve written two bestselling writing books, with a third coming out in August 2015 (all published by Writers Digest Books). I also do a lot of workshops and conferences at the behest of writing groups and clubs, and I operate a story coaching service based right here out of this blog.
Oh, there are a few ebooks kicking around out there, too.
Now for the backstory, if you’d care to stick around.
The genesis of this blog comes from the thousands of folks who have attended my writing workshops. The consensus is this: “I’ve been attending writing workshops for many years, and I’ve read all the how-to books, and this is not only the best and clearest thing I’ve heard, it’s the first time someone has actually shown me how to write a novel (an
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EYELANDS BOOK AWARDS – FINALISTS 2019
(by submission order)
CATEGORY: POETRY /PUBLISHED
1.The Nurseryman – Arthur Allen / Scotland
Arthur Allen is an award-winning British-Canadian poet. He has studied creative writing at the University of Oxford, the University of East Anglia and is currently reading towards a PhD in poetry and semiotics of grief at the University of Edinburgh. His debut pamphlet Here Birds Are was published by Green Bottle Press, 2017 and his verse-novel The Nurseryman is available from Kernpunkt Press, 2019. His poetry has previously appeared in many publications including: Cake, Ambit, fillingStation, the Amsterdam Quarterly, the Irish Literary Review, the Bombay Review and the Mississippi Review.
- Captain Fly’s Bucketlist – Agnes Marton / Luxembourg
Agnes Marton is a Hungarian-born poet, writer, librettist, Reviews Editor of The Ofi Press, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). Recent publications include her collection ‘Captain Fly’s Bucket List’ and four chapbooks with Moria Books (USA). She won the National Poetry Day Competition in the UK, and an anthology she edited (‘Estuary: A Confluence of Art and Poetry’) won the Saboteur Award. Her work is widely anthologized, some examples: ‘Alic