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ew strange south seas by beatrice grimshaw posted by john kenny march 12 2026 i first came across the work of beatrice grimshaw in swan river press excellent anthology bending to earth strange stories by irish women edited by maria giakaniki and brian j showers and published in 2019 it featured a piece by grimshaw called the blanket fiend which tells the story of an expedition into the continue reading leave a comment book reviews featured posts book review lost estates by mark valentine posted by john kenny may 8 2024 1 comment mark valentine s third book with swan river press takes a different tack to the previous two collections selected stories and seventeen stories which focused on middle europe between the wars lost estates gathers stories by valentine that share in common various aspects of folk horror a genre that has a long and honourable tradition in continue reading new story published in uncertainties posted by john kenny august 25 2016 leave a comment i m uber proud to have a short story called last love featured in uncertainties volume i an anthology of supernatural tales just published by the always excellent swan river press the book was launched last saturday august 20th at the dublin ghost story festival the first of a hopefully annual event in the grand lodge of continue reading launch of decade 1 the best of albedo one posted by john kenny august 8 2016 2 comments it s been out for a few weeks now but i m only now getting around to officially announcing the launch of decade 1 the best of albedo one an anthology edited by myself and published by aeon press that gathers a personal selection of the best short stories to feature in albedo one ireland s magazine of continue reading independent literary industry best editor award posted by john kenny november 3 2014 10 comments i m shocked and surprised to learn in the last couple of days that i ve only gone and won the 2014 independent literary industry award for best editor i was up against the uber talented angela houle and cynthia shepp so i m doubly honoured by the award more details of the award here and while you re there continue reading submitting your work part 5 professionalism posted by john kenny february 26 2014 4 comments you ve written your masterpiece your short story poem or novel you ve sweated blood crafting the work redrafting and redrafting it s time to unleash it on an unsuspecting public there s only one thing standing between you and fame the editor and or first slush reader of the publication or publisher it can be frustrating to have your work continue reading the wolf of wall street vs american hustle con men and hollywood posted by john kenny january 29 2014 2 comments stories about con artists enjoy a long and varied history in hollywood but where the con man is the central character notable standard personality traits are discernable and common to all i recently saw the wolf of wall street and american hustle within a couple of days of each other and was struck by the continue reading playing catch up various publications in 2013 posted by john kenny january 4 2014 leave a comment well it s been a while since i ve posted anything new here but it s not as if nothing s been happening quite the reverse in the main most of my free time has been taken up in a major redrafting of a novel i wrote a couple of years ago but i did manage to have a continue reading new story published in revival literary journal posted by john kenny march 21 2013 leave a comment i m delighted to be sharing the pages of the latest issue of revival literary journal 25 with john w sexton crona gallagher maeve o sullivan mary bradford knute skinner kevin kiely louis mulcahy gerard beirne miceal kearney and a host of others the issue features a short piece of flash fiction i wrote called dog shit continue reading submitting your work part 4 writing synopses posted by john kenny november 5 2012 4 comments many writers will agree that writing synopses is something they have difficulty doing there is quite a bit of confusion as to what exactly a synopsis is why is it required how do you go about writing one it s common knowledge that a synopsis is a summary of the story a writer has written and continue reading my regrettable non relationship with libraries guest blog posted by john kenny august 11 2012 leave a comment this week i was asked to write a guest blog for what she might think writer erin pringle toungate s excellent website as you will guess from the title of the piece it highlights the sad lack of libraries in my youth not there weren t libraries near me there were several the blog focuses more specifically on continue reading a night on the town in maputo posted by john kenny may 18 2012 2 comments in a previous life i worked for a consultancy company that managed donor funded overseas development aid programmes in central and eastern europe africa and the middle east essentially they were projects funded by the eu the world bank and various national aid agencies and aimed at assisting economic development and recovery my job was to continue reading self publishing and the editorial process guest blog posted by john kenny may 4 2012 1 comment this week i was asked to write a guest blog for writing4all a free online resource for writers given that i make my daily crust as a freelance editor i thought for a change i d focus specifically on the important of the editorial process itself which has become all the more crucial now with the continue reading submitting your work part 3 cover letters posted by john kenny april 30 2012 6 comments cover letters are a curious creature editors generally pay scarce attention to them certainly if they accompany a short story submission to a magazine anthology or webzine and yet they are nearly always a submission requirement a sure way to put an editor s nose out of joint is to post or email a submission with continue reading in praise of old age posted by john kenny april 12 2012 2 comments there s no question that getting old is a pain in the butt you work hard all your life you struggle for a level of security and relative comfort which often seems constantly just out of reach you do your best to provide for and nurture your kids then bits of you start to fall off continue reading submitting your work part 2 read the f g guidelines posted by john kenny march 26 2012 2 comments i thought long and hard before including the word f g in the title of this second part of my occasional series on submitting work to publishers reason being i didn t want to be seen as potentially disparaging towards the vast majority of writers who do go the trouble of checking out the guidelines to a continue reading on hollywood rewriting history posted by john kenny march 21 2012 4 comments hollywood has a long and varied tradition in the production of biopics those movies based on the life and times of real life people of historical social or cultural significance and there have been many excellent examples of this genre down through the years two that come to mind as i write are ray based continue reading new story published in jupiter magazine posted by john kenny february 11 2012 4 comments delighted to see the latest issue of jupiter magazine drop through my letterbox which features a story written by myself and david conyers called expectant green following the untimely death of her mother teenager francesca leyton is shipped off to a remote planet and into the care of a father who can barely remember her continue reading submitting your work start at the top posted by john kenny february 2 2012 17 comments it s a commonly accepted concept that writers starting out begin by submitting stories to lesser known publications and as they build a profile for themselves work their way up over time to more prestigious venues for fiction the idea being that all the while they are honing their craft and becoming better writers and on continue reading books vs ebooks why books get my vote posted by john kenny january 27 2012 7 comments call me old fashioned but i still love physical hard copy books there s no doubt that ebooks are becoming more and more popular eating into the sales of physical books to an ever increasing extent some say that books as we know them will die out completely and this is a distinct possibility but i still continue reading albedo one story picked for hartwell year s best posted by john kenny january 18 2012 4 comments i received news just before christmas and have been meaning to post something about it since that karen heuler s short story thick water featured in issue 40 of albedo one the magazine i co edit with bob neilson dave murphy frank ludlow and peter loftus has been selected for inclusion in the year s best sf 17 continue reading the night i got mugged while reading angela carter posted by john kenny january 12 2012 5 comments i do this crazy thing that people marvel at when they see me doing it i read while i m walking on my way to a bus or luas stop the luas is a tram system in dublin city or to the shops or the library or wherever out comes whatever book i m reading and i ll continue reading box of delights story picked for datlow year s best posted by john kenny january 9 2012 12 comments i ve just received news that the show by priya sharma which features in box of delights the horror anthology i edited for aeon press has been chosen by ellen datlow for her best horror of the year volume 4 it s due out in may of this year from night shade books in the meantime of continue reading on acting writing and editing interview posted by john kenny january 4 2012 9 comments my co editing partner in crime at albedo one robert neilson has started up a series of short interviews he calls bloggerviews over at his blog which will eventually be archived on the albedo one website and to kick the series off he s only gone and interviewed little ol moi i ll probably upload the interview to continue reading finding the right balance freelancing part 2 posted by john kenny january 3 2012 leave a comment bless me father for i have sinned it is over one month since i last blogged yes i know in these fast paced plugged in networking days of the blogosphere such a thing is unpardonable but i plead extenuating circumstances a surfeit of freelance editing work the mad dash to get the new issue of albedo one continue reading on government co opting the arts posted by john kenny november 28 2011 9 comments it s a curious phenomenon that historically the arts have flourished during recessions and withered during economic booms the reason for this in my view is that during economic downturns widespread dissatisfaction results in an upswing in artistic expression be it through art literature drama whatever and the audiences for this groundswell of expression increases too continue reading editing as you go why you shouldn t posted by john kenny november 22 2011 4 comments there s a minor character in albert camus brilliant novel the plague who spends years and years agonising over the structure and wording of the opening sentence of a novel he plans to write he s torn between a multitude of variations of the sentence convinced that if he can just get that one sentence right the continue reading new story published in transtories posted by john kenny november 16 2011 2 comments hot off the presses is a new science fiction and fantasy anthology called transtories which features a story of mine called transthermal set in a future mozambique where it s capital city maputo is permanently submerged by flooding and people live in gigantic barges on streets that are now canals it tells the story of a continue reading launch of box of delights posted by john kenny november 9 2011 1 comment i m delighted to announce the launch of a new original horror anthology edited by myself called box of delights and published by aeon press it features fiction by mike resnick kristine kathryn rusch steve rasnic tem don d ammassa and a host of others following a successful irish launch at octocon in dublin on the 15th continue reading whither my celtic heritage posted by john kenny november 4 2011 2 comments i m fully aware that ireland s celtic heritage is largely the invention of wb yeats and his buddies that the concept of a coherent and consistent irish cultural identity was not a part of the irish public consciousness before the advent of the 20th century but i ve always been perfectly happy to buy into the idea continue reading a brave new world of freelancing posted by john kenny october 31 2011 8 comments last christmas i lost my job the several web based projects i had developed for the company that employed me were simply not taking off to the extent we had expected and the company s owner just ran out of money a few years ago the likelihood is they would have succeeded but ever tightening constraints have continue reading follow 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