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Fantastic news from local author Bennett Robertson!

Time to submit your short story.

An Oxford comma walks into a bar, where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. A dangling participle walks into a b...ar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a bar. A malapropism walks into a bar, looking for all intensive purposes like a wolf in cheap clothing, muttering epitaphs and casting dispersions on his magnificent other, who takes him for granite. Hyperbole totally rips into this insane bar and absolutely destroys everything. A question mark walks into a bar? A non sequitur walks into a bar. In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly. Papyrus and Comic Sans walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Get out -- we don't serve your type." A mixed metaphor walks into a bar, seeing the handwriting on the wall but hoping to nip it in the bud. A comma splice walks into a bar, it has a drink and then leaves. Three intransitive verbs walk into a bar. They sit. They converse. They depart. A synonym strolls into a tavern. At the end of the day, a cliché walks into a bar -- fresh as a daisy, cute as a button, and sharp as a tack. A run-on sentence walks into a bar it starts flirting. With a cute little sentence fragment. Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapses to the bar floor. A figure of speech literally walks into a bar and ends up getting figuratively hammered. An allusion walks into a bar, despite the fact that alcohol is its Achilles heel. The subjunctive would have walked into a bar, had it only known. A misplaced modifier walks into a bar owned by a man with a glass eye named Ralph. The past, present, and future walked into a bar. It was tense. A dyslexic walks into a bra. A verb walks into a bar, sees a beautiful noun, and suggests they conjugate. The noun declines. A simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert. A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to forget. A hyphenated word and a non-hyphenated word walk into a bar and the bartender nearly chokes on the irony - Jill Thomas Doyle

This year, the Lorenzo Society is moving virtual! Join and attend Lorenzo Virtual Book Clubs, featuring major Canadian authors, remotely. Readers will have the ...opportunity to hear directly from featured authors, ask questions and discuss books with fellow readers. Join now https://bit.ly/33i0hXo

Hawthorne Lane Publishing and WordPower Writing Services wish to congratulate Bennett Robertson on the release of latest book in the Dragon’s Eye Legacy series Book Two - The Promise !

Writing as Alexa Bowie, I'm launching my first Cozy Mystery series. Set in a small Maritimes town, a young woman has an arts and culture centre returned to her at a time when she must leave Toronto. She moves in and the bodies begin to fall! It's filled with warmth and humour, with a touch of romance. Check it out! (Book 2 is half-completed!)

https://bwlauthors.blogspot.com//short-stories-and-short-s

New Brunswick Book Awards winners announced Drumroll please..The Fiddlehead and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick are pleased to announce the winners of... the New Brunswick Book Awards for outstanding work published in 2019. The awards were presented during a virtual ceremony tonight June 11. The winners are as follows: The Mrs. Dunster's Award for Fiction Sarah Xerar Murphy, Itzel I: A Tlatelolco Awakening (Guernica Editions) The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize Jennifer Houle, Virga (Signature Editions) Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Non-Fiction Danny Jacobs, Sourcebooks for Our Drawings: Essays and Remnants (Gordon Hill Press) Congratulations to all the finalists!

Enter your story to win $1000, and a free 10-week course with Gotham Writers. The winning work will be performed and recorded live at a Selected Shorts performa...nce at Symphony Space and published on Electric Literature. The 2020 contest will be judged by Nicole Chung . Enter your story by March 1. See more

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented. Stephen King