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Milford 2021 – a report by Liz Tuckwell

Posted on 21 September 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Milford 2020 was postponed due to COVID so, we’d all been waiting a year to attend. There were ten “old hands” and five newbies. Milford tries to keep five out of the fifteen slots for new writers every year. That … Continue reading →

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Sherwood Smith answers six questions

Posted on 17 August 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Tell us your biography in three sentences or fewer. Born in Los Angeles, California, studied in Austria for a year, degrees are in German and history. After a brief fling in the film industry, I was a teacher for twenty … Continue reading →

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Kari Sperring Answers Six Questions

Posted on 13 July 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Tell us your biography in 3 sentences and fewer.I’m Coventry-Welsh (it’s a thing), but have lived a peripatetic life, moving around England, Wales and, for two years, Ireland so I’m never quite sure where I really come from, or who … Continue reading →

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Nisi Shawl Answers Six Questions

Posted on 4 May 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Tell us your biography in three sentences or fewer. Nisi Shawl was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan and moved to Ann Arbor to drop out of the University of Michigan after learning to roll joints and read their poetry … Continue reading →

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Six Questions answered by N.M. Browne

Posted on 20 April 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Tell us your biography in three sentences or fewer. I always wanted to be a writer, but did nothing about it for years Following a stint as a teacher, an MBA and a brief period as a marketing exec at … Continue reading →

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Six Questions answered by Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Posted on 30 March 2021 by Jacey Bedford

Tell us your biography in three sentences or fewer. I’m Nigerian, but I’ve lived in three countries (probably will soon be living in my fourth). I’ve been writing since 2012 or thereabouts but didn’t start taking it seriously until about … Continue reading →

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Why Stories? by Jim Anderson

Posted on 5 January 2021 by Jacey Bedford

I love to read, and not merely as a means of procrastination from the other things that need sometimes to get done.  And neither part of this, I know, is unique to me. But I’ve never ever explored the question, … Continue reading →

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How I Crit by Sue Thomason

Posted on 21 January 2020 by Jacey Bedford

The first thing I do is read through a piece “for fun”, as a story-reader. If I finish reading and think “Wow! How interesting! (and for an unfinished piece) “What happens next?” then I am happy to say that the … Continue reading →

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How I Crit – by John Moran

Posted on 10 September 2019 by Jacey Bedford

Milford 2019 begins on 14th September, so it seemed like a good time to ask several Milford ‘old hands’ how they tackled crtiquing a piece of fiction. This is what John Moran had to say… For me, critting depends a … Continue reading →

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Books on Writing: What Writers Need (the Nitty-Gritty) by Tiffani Angus

Posted on 2 July 2019 by Jacey Bedford

I teach writing at the university level—BA, MA, and PhD. What this means is that in addition to my students having to write creatively they also have to write academically, usually in the form of an analysis of their creative … Continue reading →

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