Lindsay Bamfield
@lindsaybamfield.bsky.social
Writer living in Melbourne.
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‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Exclusive: Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Exclusive: Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
‘Sign our own death warrant’: Australian writers angry after Melbourne publisher asks them to sign AI agreements
Exclusive: Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Exclusive: Authors asked to allow Black Inc to use their work for ‘training, testing, validation and the deployment of a machine learning’ system www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize 2025.
1st prize: $250,
Judge: Alice White
Closes: 5th May 2025 11.59pm AEST
Open to all women poets across Australia
Fees: SWWV Members: $10 per entry or $20 for 3 entries
Non-members $15 per entry or $30 for 3 entries
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
1st prize: $250,
Judge: Alice White
Closes: 5th May 2025 11.59pm AEST
Open to all women poets across Australia
Fees: SWWV Members: $10 per entry or $20 for 3 entries
Non-members $15 per entry or $30 for 3 entries
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize - Society of Women Writers Victoria
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize is awarded for a poem of no more than 50 lines, this biennial award is…
www.swwvic.org.au
March 5, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize 2025.
1st prize: $250,
Judge: Alice White
Closes: 5th May 2025 11.59pm AEST
Open to all women poets across Australia
Fees: SWWV Members: $10 per entry or $20 for 3 entries
Non-members $15 per entry or $30 for 3 entries
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
1st prize: $250,
Judge: Alice White
Closes: 5th May 2025 11.59pm AEST
Open to all women poets across Australia
Fees: SWWV Members: $10 per entry or $20 for 3 entries
Non-members $15 per entry or $30 for 3 entries
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
Enjoyed a second session on flash fiction with Gaynor Jones. Excellent insights. Courtesy of @melcityoflit.bsky.social
November 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Enjoyed a second session on flash fiction with Gaynor Jones. Excellent insights. Courtesy of @melcityoflit.bsky.social
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I’ll be guest judging Westword’s (@retreatwest.bsky.social) 2024 hermit crab flash contest!
£6 submission (~ $7 USD)
£23 with feedback (~ $29 USD)
Story Max: 650 words (excluding titles)
Deadline: February 23, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/westword...
£6 submission (~ $7 USD)
£23 with feedback (~ $29 USD)
Story Max: 650 words (excluding titles)
Deadline: February 23, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/westword...
Hermit Crab Prize
One of the best things about flash fiction, is the innovation inherent in these tiny stories.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2024 at 6:47 PM
I’ll be guest judging Westword’s (@retreatwest.bsky.social) 2024 hermit crab flash contest!
£6 submission (~ $7 USD)
£23 with feedback (~ $29 USD)
Story Max: 650 words (excluding titles)
Deadline: February 23, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/westword...
£6 submission (~ $7 USD)
£23 with feedback (~ $29 USD)
Story Max: 650 words (excluding titles)
Deadline: February 23, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/westword...
Be aware. Be very aware.
November 14, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Be aware. Be very aware.
Ever wanted to write flash fiction?
Playing with Form – the Art of Writing Flash Fiction with Gaynor Jones
Date: Monday 11 November 2024. Time: 7:00 pm (AEDT)
Via Zoom
Price: $30.00
Info and Tickets www.swwvic.org.au/event/specia...
Playing with Form – the Art of Writing Flash Fiction with Gaynor Jones
Date: Monday 11 November 2024. Time: 7:00 pm (AEDT)
Via Zoom
Price: $30.00
Info and Tickets www.swwvic.org.au/event/specia...
SWWV Special Event - Society of Women Writers Victoria
Join us for 90-minute online workshop in the art of writing flash fiction from Gaynor Jones. The workshop will look at varying forms of prose…
www.swwvic.org.au
November 8, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Ever wanted to write flash fiction?
Playing with Form – the Art of Writing Flash Fiction with Gaynor Jones
Date: Monday 11 November 2024. Time: 7:00 pm (AEDT)
Via Zoom
Price: $30.00
Info and Tickets www.swwvic.org.au/event/specia...
Playing with Form – the Art of Writing Flash Fiction with Gaynor Jones
Date: Monday 11 November 2024. Time: 7:00 pm (AEDT)
Via Zoom
Price: $30.00
Info and Tickets www.swwvic.org.au/event/specia...
Nice little pay-out from the Copyright Agency. Not enough to take me far but very welcome.
June 25, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Nice little pay-out from the Copyright Agency. Not enough to take me far but very welcome.
Short story competition open to all women in Australia from the Society of Women Writers Victoria. Closes 30th April
Details:
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
Details:
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
April 9, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Short story competition open to all women in Australia from the Society of Women Writers Victoria. Closes 30th April
Details:
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
Details:
www.swwvic.org.au/competition/...
I don't even need an invisibility cloak.
March 22, 2024 at 10:49 PM
I don't even need an invisibility cloak.
Thinking of my sister who died a year ago today. She began the historical family research which I am now continuing. My great-grandparents and their twelve children circa 1892.
March 8, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Thinking of my sister who died a year ago today. She began the historical family research which I am now continuing. My great-grandparents and their twelve children circa 1892.
A paragraph of mine on Paragraph Planet
February 28, 2024 at 4:16 AM
A paragraph of mine on Paragraph Planet
Oh, this one got me. Gave me such a visceral reaction. I was there watching.
"I feel as though I’m having one of those dreams where you need to run but your feet are stuck in treacle." A Stupid Rubber Dinosaur by Alison Wassell @alisonwassell.bsky.social #microfiction #flashfiction #flashfictionfebruary fictivedream.com/2024/02/23/a...
A Stupid Rubber Dinosaur
by Alison Wassell YOU ONLY HOLD my hand to cross the road when I say I’ll tell Mum if you don’t. The second your scuffed school shoe hits the opposite kerb you wriggle free and stride ahead with t-rex...
fictivedream.com
February 23, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Oh, this one got me. Gave me such a visceral reaction. I was there watching.
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Like a deadline?
Writing for FFF Competition Twenty?
Deadline - 10 pm Friday 23rd February 2024
flash fiction - 100 and 300 words,
any theme
£3.85 / £2.35
1 Winner £150.00
2 Highly C. £40.00
3 Shortlisted £30.00
Judge - Adele Evershed
@adlibby.bsky.social
All info..
freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...
Deadline - 10 pm Friday 23rd February 2024
flash fiction - 100 and 300 words,
any theme
£3.85 / £2.35
1 Winner £150.00
2 Highly C. £40.00
3 Shortlisted £30.00
Judge - Adele Evershed
@adlibby.bsky.social
All info..
freeflashfiction.com/current-comp...
February 15, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Like a deadline?
Reposted by Lindsay Bamfield
As chosen by judge S. A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Nineteen Highly Commended:
Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival
by Karen Arnold
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Nineteen Highly Commended:
Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival
by Karen Arnold
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Competition Nineteen Highly Commended: Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival
In five minutes time, you will sigh heavily and offer me an unasked for opinion on the current leader of the Labour Party. I will put my hand on your leg without looking up from my book, knowing you w...
freeflashfiction.com
January 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
As chosen by judge S. A. Greene
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Nineteen Highly Commended:
Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival
by Karen Arnold
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
@sagreene1.bsky.social
FFF Competition Nineteen Highly Commended:
Dancing At The Galway Oyster Festival
by Karen Arnold
freeflashfiction.com/fiction/comp...
Joining the '10 authors of whom I've read more than 5 books.'
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Winston Graham
R.F. Delderfield
Barbara Pym
Liane Moriarty
Charity Norman
Anne Tyler
Barbara Kingsolver
Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Winston Graham
R.F. Delderfield
Barbara Pym
Liane Moriarty
Charity Norman
Anne Tyler
Barbara Kingsolver
Kate Atkinson
January 5, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Joining the '10 authors of whom I've read more than 5 books.'
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Winston Graham
R.F. Delderfield
Barbara Pym
Liane Moriarty
Charity Norman
Anne Tyler
Barbara Kingsolver
Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Winston Graham
R.F. Delderfield
Barbara Pym
Liane Moriarty
Charity Norman
Anne Tyler
Barbara Kingsolver
Kate Atkinson
Wishing all my friends and family a Happy Christmas (whether you celebrate or not) and a peaceful New Year. Missing the one I lost this year.
December 24, 2023 at 4:05 AM
Wishing all my friends and family a Happy Christmas (whether you celebrate or not) and a peaceful New Year. Missing the one I lost this year.
My ten best reads - two were library loans so not in picture
lindsaybamfield.blogspot.com/2023/12/this....
lindsaybamfield.blogspot.com/2023/12/this....
December 20, 2023 at 4:08 AM
My ten best reads - two were library loans so not in picture
lindsaybamfield.blogspot.com/2023/12/this....
lindsaybamfield.blogspot.com/2023/12/this....
A Christmas tree that lasts almost forever. Not sure how long it took me to read it.
December 3, 2023 at 5:15 AM
A Christmas tree that lasts almost forever. Not sure how long it took me to read it.
Delighted by this Pushcart nomination from Bright Flash Literary Review.
December 1, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Delighted by this Pushcart nomination from Bright Flash Literary Review.
This popped up in my files. Almost ten years ago now. So many of the speakers we had at our modest local lit fests (there were 5) have gone on to great things and become well known names.
November 23, 2023 at 10:33 PM
This popped up in my files. Almost ten years ago now. So many of the speakers we had at our modest local lit fests (there were 5) have gone on to great things and become well known names.
A little piece published by 100word Project
November 14, 2023 at 3:05 AM
A little piece published by 100word Project
Melbourne loves its coffee and its literature. So do I.
November 12, 2023 at 4:57 AM
Melbourne loves its coffee and its literature. So do I.
Had a few days away from it all. (Lovely but getting there and back was a pain.) Now I need to get writing again.
November 10, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Had a few days away from it all. (Lovely but getting there and back was a pain.) Now I need to get writing again.
Good luck to all those out there participating in #NaNoWriMo. (I'm not.) I hope to create something. Just not 50,000 words.
October 31, 2023 at 9:30 PM
Good luck to all those out there participating in #NaNoWriMo. (I'm not.) I hope to create something. Just not 50,000 words.