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    Round-up of Recent Things
    Helen Rye
    • Jun 29, 2021
    • 4 min

    Round-up of Recent Things

    It's been an odd year, I think we can agree. It's never really felt like a good time to update this blog, what with Covid induced...
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    Quiet Man Dave Prize Finalist!!
    Helen Rye
    • Oct 3, 2020
    • 1 min

    Quiet Man Dave Prize Finalist!!

    This has been a pretty good month for writing news! Both my stories made it through to the shortlist for this amazing contest at...
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    Best of the Net Nomination!
    Helen Rye
    • Sep 28, 2020
    • 1 min

    Best of the Net Nomination!

    Super-lovely bit of good news today to brighten the Sad Death of Summer we are currently undergoing here in the UK: the beautiful humans...
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    Quiet Man Dave Prize - Longlist
    Helen Rye
    • Sep 27, 2020
    • 1 min

    Quiet Man Dave Prize - Longlist

    I'm really delighted to have two stories on the longlist for this international flash competition. The Quiet Man Dave Prize was set up,...
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    New site!
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    New site!

    Welcome! Thanks for coming round! I'm just moving in to this site so there might be weird things in unexpected places for a few days....
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    National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2020
    Helen Rye
    • Jun 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    National Flash Fiction Day Anthology 2020

    Hooray! I have a story in this year's UK National Flash Fiction Day anthology! This will be the fourth year in a row I've had a story in...
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    Cafe Writers Norwich - Supporting Act
    Helen Rye
    • Apr 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    Cafe Writers Norwich - Supporting Act

    Today was going to be an exceptionally exciting occasion, for me. Months ago, I was booked by Cafe Writers to be the supporting act at...
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    Best Small Fictions 2020 Win!
    Helen Rye
    • Apr 9, 2020
    • 1 min

    Best Small Fictions 2020 Win!

    Best Small Fictions win for The Diamond Factory, published by matchbook litmag
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    Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Nomination from matchbook litmag!
    Helen Rye
    • Dec 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pushcart Prize and Best Small Fictions Nomination from matchbook litmag!

    Awwww man, so thrilled to have my story, The Diamond Factory, receive a double nomination for these awards from matchbook litmag, a...
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    UEA Prose MA
    Helen Rye
    • Sep 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    UEA Prose MA

    Here's a thing I never thought would happen. This month I started at the UEA, on the legendary prose MA, the first creative writing...
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    SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Workshops - Manchester and Birmingham
    Helen Rye
    • Sep 22, 2019
    • 1 min

    SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Workshops - Manchester and Birmingham

    Christopher Allen - the editor of SmokeLong - and I each have many strengths. Chris is an absolutely amazing singer. I make a really nice...
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    Primadonna Festival 2019
    Helen Rye
    • Sep 1, 2019
    • 4 min

    Primadonna Festival 2019

    My poet friend Julia and I were lucky enough to be given free tickets to this radical new literary festival, which took place last...
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    matchbook litmag - The Diamond Factory
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 29, 2019
    • 1 min

    matchbook litmag - The Diamond Factory

    Super delighted to have this story published at matchbook this month. I already admired this journal so much, and then I found out how...
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    Pigeons and Prose
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    Pigeons and Prose

    The Wix website manager always enjoins me, at the top of each new blog post, to 'write a catchy title', so I thought I would, for once....
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    UK Flash Fiction Festival 2019
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 8, 2019
    • 2 min

    UK Flash Fiction Festival 2019

    This year was, of course, amazing. The readings. The workshops, The food. The company. The international workshop leaders and presenters!...
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    SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Workshops - London
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Workshops - London

    We accidentally timed this to coincide with the London Pride parade, so it was an extra-fun day. Our participants worked so hard, and so...
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    Flashing Norwich 2, July 2019
    Helen Rye
    • Jul 2, 2019
    • 1 min

    Flashing Norwich 2, July 2019

    We held another fabulous Flashing Norwich flash fiction reading event at The Forum tonight! Stellar work from readers and open-mic-ers...
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    Reading at Launch of The Somnambulist Cookbook
    Helen Rye
    • Jun 16, 2019
    • 1 min

    Reading at Launch of The Somnambulist Cookbook

    I was honoured to be asked to read at the launch of Andrew McDonnell's brilliant poetry collection, The Somnambulist Cookbook (Salt...
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    Ink, Sweat and Tears' National Flash Fiction Day Story 2019
    Helen Rye
    • Jun 14, 2019
    • 1 min

    Ink, Sweat and Tears' National Flash Fiction Day Story 2019

    Honoured to be asked by Ink, Sweat and Tears for a story to celebrate this year's National Flash Fiction Day. What a lovely journal it...
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    Lighthouse Literary Journal Fundraiser
    Helen Rye
    • Jun 6, 2019
    • 1 min

    Lighthouse Literary Journal Fundraiser

    We had a fantastic evening, raising £210 with the generous support of a stellar cast of readers. Sam's auctioneering skills were...
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