A special hello to any new Leaf followers who became aware of us following the Wicked Words and Witty Women event in Cardiff on March 11th. It was a jovial night of storytelling, poetry-reading, creative-writing and generally unnecessarily fantastic event in honour of International Women's Day. It was hugely successful and we hope to hold similar events in the future, about which we'll keep you informed.
We'd like to remind anyone who was involved in our nano-writing workshop on the night that they're more than welcome to send in the 50-word stories that they produced in response to our prompts (and apologies to anyone reading the newsletter who thought that was a general call for 50-word stories from the public at large, because it wasn't, though that's not to say that 50-word stories aren't a jolly useful thing to have - being as they are a great warm-up for more epic writing and little poetic masterpieces that many other websites would doubtless be happy to house).
Another quick reminder: the Young Writers' Competition closes at the end of this month, so please get your entries in as soon as possible, or nudge any young people you might know until they disgorge a short story. Judging for the nano-fiction competition is ongoing, and we hope to announce the results in the April newsletter (and hopefully slightly earlier than that on this blog).
And a final note: Dancing with Delsie and Other Poems is in the final stages of production, but we've yet to hear from one of the winning authors. If you happen to be Christopher Korta, author of 'Memory of my Father', could you please get in touch with us as soon as possible at contact@leafbooks.co.uk. Thanks.
