Hope you all had a good Easter and are dusting off your best frocks and morning suits for tomorrow’s royal nuptials. In the meantime here are a few bits from my world of writing over the last 10 days or so:

• Those of you who subscribe to The New Writer will have seen Simon Whaley’s piece about receiving 12 rejections from the same magazine, on the same day – each in its own stamped addressed envelope. This made me feel a whole lot better about my own rejections – my personal record  being 4 stories turned down by My Weekly in the same email, which made me feel pretty bad at the time I can tell you. 
• The results of the Readers Digest 100 word story competition are now out here. They are also showcasing several of the entries on a daily basis on their website – if yours has been selected please leave a comment with the link here so that we can all share your success!
• I had a phone call from the David St. John Charitable Trust this week to tell me that I had won a competition that I entered in November 2009 !  It just goes to show that you should never give up hope.
• If you’re feeling lucky there are 6 sets of 6 nature/outdoor books to be won in a Telegraph Prize Draw.
• Finally, I have a story in the April 30th issue of The Weekly News (2 short story acceptances within a month is something of a record for me!)