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May 2024 Newsletter

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May wol have no slogardie a-night. So true, Geoff, so true. At EGG+FROG, we’ll certainly be banging the keys all hours to bring you another month of literary mania. It is, after all, the month when we’ll be announcing the results of our first writing competition, Britain vs The World: Flash Battle 2024. We’ve read the lot and you wol not want to miss the works in our top spots.

 

May also comes after April (apparently). Which was a sensational month for us. Here’s what we had to offer:

Last month's masterworks:

In April, we published five works of wonder. We were so pleased with the depth and diversity of what our writers delivered. Rebecca Miles took us on a stroll through grief and friendship. Thomas Dedola reported back from his dreamscape in ‘Barcelona’. Andrew Wickham seriously creeped us out (while wearing pince nez). Elemental images and beautiful rhythm joined together in Charity Reed’s ‘I Thought of You’. And Dylan Federico Pritchard showed that brevity need be no barrier to narrative in his masterful ‘Removal’.

Fiction. One Step At A Time, by Rebecca Miles. Image: the silhouette of an old lady looks on at a dog and a young man ahead of her. Laves are blowing in the air.
Poetry. Barcelona, by Thomas Dedola. Image: the silhouette of a sleeping man in the foreground. In the background, a light silhouette of the skyline of Barcelona.
Poetry. I thought of you, by Charity Reed. Image: silhouette of a woman looks up at a tree, flock of birds and clouds that, together, form a man's face.
Flash fiction. Reenactment, by Andrew Wickham. Image: silhouettes of four people gathered around an ornate bed in which a woman with tousled hair is lying. On the wall are a framed picture of a man, a cross, and a clock.
Flash Fiction. Removal, by Dylan Pritchard. Image: the silhouette of a sofa on which a woman sits and a man lies with his head in her lap. The man's silhouette is white as though he has been removed from the image.

last month's writing ideas:

Ideas to spark your imagination and craft, featured on our Instagram and Facebook accounts almost every week. (Click the image to see the full text.)

News, etc.

Inspirations #1

We are delighted to have launched our newest feature: ‘Inspirations’. Taking pride of place in the Word-Hoard, this feature has four of our published writers telling us all about the energy and inspiration behind their creative work. If you love the work of these writers (and of course you do), we think these backstories give new, wonderful colours to a re-read.

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Judging is underway

We’ve read the stories you submitted, so we can say (with a wee tear in our eyes) that Britain vs The World: Flash Battle 2024 has been a heart-bursting success. We’re hard at work picking those finalists and delivering feedback to every single one of you legends who joined in. We’ll be updating EGG+FROG in the coming days to create a showcase for our finalists. The results will be published there, on Instagram, Facebook and in a special newsletter from May 13th. Thank you!

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Employees of the month:

April’s most emphatic amphibians

Frog noir

enjoys a big sleep

St. frog

this guy slays

Indiana frog

templar of Zoom

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Flash fiction. Dead Man Talking, by Sean Glatch. Image: in silhouette, one open window looks out onto another. In the second, two men can be seen, one without a top on.
Flash fiction. Surface, by Rebecca Klassen. Image: silhouette of a children's ball pit. On the left of the image, a pair of legs are sticking out of the balls. On the right, a tentacle.
Drama. The Hole Thing by Philip Webb Gregg. Image: a silhouette of an open door through which is a black hole sucking in various objects, including a pair of trousers, a cat, a flock of birds and a kettle. Next to the door, a person sits, looking out.