Stories For Sendai - out now - COMPETITION

This wonderful fundraising anthology is now out on Amazon. Edited by J.C.Martin and Michelle Davidson Argyle, it includes stories inspired by Japan along with stories by numbers of tsunami survivors.

To find out more about the authors, go to the site and read the author interviews:
Sushma Joshi, Nepal,
Lorraine Leo, USA,
Heather Parker, UK,
J.R.McRae, Australia,
Stephen Conley, USA,
Jake Henegan, South Africa,
Gale Massey, USA,
Bat-Ami Gordin, USA,
Roland D. Yeomans, USA,
Philip Allen Loring, Alaska,
Lucy Cripps, Austria,
Damyanti Ghosh, India,
Julie Christine, New Zealand,
Kirsty Logan, Scotland,
C. N. Nevets, USA,
Aron White, USA,

Cherie Reich, USA,
Davin Malasarn, USA,
Michelle Davidson Argyle, Editor, USA,
J.C. Martin, Editor, Malaysia,

To celebrate, J.C. and Michelle are holding a competition
with prizes including manuscript critiques, Amazon vouchers and choice of bestseller from Book Depository and more. Contest closes on 15th July so hurry!

Competition details

1. Purchase a copy (or more!) of Stories for Sendai when it releases.
2. Email your receipt to storiesforsendai (at) ymail (dot) com.
3. One contest entry per purchase--so buy extra copies for your friends/family! :)
4. Contest closes on July 15th at 10.00pm GMT. Winners will be drawn randomly.
5. To find who the winners are, click here on July 16th.
   

Teller2Teller - storytelling in prose, poetry and off the cuff

Friday, 24th, was my first live gig for a while and my first ever storytelling using grown up material for a grown up audience. The event was hosted by Teller2Teller at the Brisbane Square Library. Director/Founder/coordinator, Marlene Butteriss, did an outstanding job of bringing the whole together, despite a number of out of left field glitches along the way, including Brisbane Square Library halving the allotted time for our gig! :} On the programme was YA/children's author, Eddie Dowd, Marilyn Roberts, performance poet and yours truly.

Eddie gave a sterling performance of a whimsically funny story of potions and portions and manufacturing and realising your life goals. Marilyn regaled us with her "Pink Lady"- a rumbustious, rollicking, raunch of piece and a story about knocking on windows late at night in her birthday suit and borrowed coat...
For me, it was a good opportunity to spruke "100 Stories for Queensland" [all monies going to flood victims] and "Stories for Sendai" [launching 30th June, all monies going to Japan's tsunami survivors, some of whose stories are included]. Both books are available from Amazon and The Book Depository. I read "Her Ladyship Awaits..." [loosely based on a true story] from "100 Stories for Queensland" and "Soup", first published in Rose and Thorn and now also available in "Pot Luck" edited by Chris Bartholomew, Static Movement, USA.