Squidge's Scribbles

Delighted to announce that my short story, Cirque de la Vie, has been placed as a runner up in the Retreat West quarterly circus themed com...

No, I didn't know there was one either! But there is, led by First Story. You can find out more about it here  , but essentially it aims...

The first of the workshops provided by Isabel Costello as part of my recent retreat was about Inspiration. As a writer, I'm often aske...

Late posting this - life seems to be running away with me rather at the moment, but I'm working on the view that it's better late th...

I am an author. I write. But I'm not very disciplined, so I write when I can in the day, and try to write every day, even if it's ...

Did you know that: *  According to  Shelter , 65,000 families will be homeless this Christmas. * At least one more family becomes homele...

Last night, I attended the launch of the Leicester Writes Short Story Prize 2017 Anthology. I was longlisted for the prize along wit...

Bit of a long post today, so grab a cuppa and settle in for an update! Looking back... I told you about my birthday, didn't I? Well...

Last night, we had our monthly NIBS meeting. I chose to take the paint sample cards again as we'd had fun with them in the past and afte...

So the Scribbles have been a little quiet in the last two weeks as I've been recovering from the chest infection. Thank goodness, I...

I'm proud to belong to the Random Writers. And immensely proud of the stories I've had published in the first two Random Write...

The Random Writers have done it again...  They enjoyed writing the stories for A Seeming Glass   so much, they decided to put tog...