Sunday, 14 June 2026

A week of anthology news

What a week! Amidst submitting work to anthologies, I received some really good news on previous submissions and my work being included in several forthcoming anthologies. 

I'm delighted to see that The Dirigible Balloon will be publishing a third anthology of poetry for children, and I'm deeply honoured to have a poem selected, particularly when I see the list of poets selected. Having had a poem selected for inclusion in the second anthology too, I'm very excited to watch this one progress. Thanks to Jonathan Humble for all the work he does on this fantastic poetry resource. 

You can read more about this here:

https://northernjim.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/this-is-your-captain-speaking/

I also heard that I've had two poems selected for a separate anthology - more news on that in due course.

The biggest and most exciting news I received was that my story 'Pineepple Delicht' won the Open Story category in the Federation of Writers (Scotland) annual writing competition and as a result will also be published in a special anthology celebrating their twentieth anniversary. I can't wait to read all the other winning entries.





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