My story is printed - for real!

I’ve been banging on about how great I am for a few posts now and to be honest it’s got a little dull and naff, so I very much plan on stopping.


After this one.

I do just need to write this last post about my recent fantasticleness though, before things go back to normal. As mentioned before, I was elated to discover that I had won a short story writing competition in a local magazine, which provided me with some Champagne and my first ever genuine publication. For the first time ever a story written by me is to appear in print within a bone fide magazine. The rules of the competition were simple, 1000 words or less and the title had to be 'My Maddest Christmas'. That was all I needed, though it took me about six attempts to get it down to 1000 words.

The magazine in question is based in Oxfordshire but covers parts of Bucks and Berks too, so I was even more excited when I worked out that the magazine actually gets delivered to circa 170,000 homes!

That’s just unbelievable!

I can now reveal that I’m absolutely jaw droppingly, bounce-around-the-roomingly chuffed to bits to report that they have also printed the story on their website.

So everyone can read it!

Therefore, I would be more than a smidge happy if you were to pop over to Round&About magazine’s website, and see what you think to my first ever prize winning story.

Round&About’s homepage, click here.


Round&About’s web page containing the story, click here.


Direct to the PDF for easy reading, click here.

Thank you and I promise – tomorrow I shall be revealing the result of my month growing a Mo, and proving once and for all that I am, in fact, an arse.

p.s. Do you think the fact that they were able to have a runner up in the poems makes it look a little like mine was the only entry for the stories?