
Sue Dawes has had one story longlisted and one shortlisted in the WLC flash fiction competition, ‘Walking Home’. The first, ‘Home is where the heart is buried‘ was originally a much longer prose poem about loss and remembrance. The inspiration for the second story, which has been shortlisted: ‘Unpicking the thread‘ (which will appear in a chapbook) came from a workshop led by EL Rhodes. The exercise involved writing about a walk and incorporating random words given during the writing process. This was a great way of changing the direction of the story, and thinking about unusual ways to use the random words as descriptions. Not all of the words ended up in the final draft but they certainly shaped it.