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My awards from Twisted Volume 3 arrived in Australia today…

My awards from Twisted Volume 3 arrived today—all the way from the motherland! Feeling so proud. Exciting news: Twisted Volume 4 is on the horizon, and I highly encourage you to sign up and submit your work. The entir…

Claire Rye·28 February 2025·1 min

Are you a Reader, or are you a Writer? by Rusty Rushfeldt

Are you a reader, or are you a writer, or one of the fortunate ones who enjoys reading and writing? If you are of the latter, then color me jealous. From an early age reading was torture for me, unless there were pict…

Rusty Rushfeldt · 4 October 2024 · 2 min

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Twisted50 Writers Share Their Thoughts On The Process…

‘Did I enjoy Twisted50 and would I enter another? Fuck, Yes!’ I loved the experience and I think the whole concept is so uniquely brilliant and exceptionally executed, I wouldn’t hesitate to enter again. Even if it wa…

Chris Jones · 29 September 2024 · 5 min

OK Fiends, Twisted Is About To Get TWISTED!

Final drafts have been submitted and we about to start the process of building a book, selecting fifty stories from fifty writers. What can you do now? First up, keep reading and leaving feedback, especially on those…

Chris Jones · 19 September 2024 · 1 min

Everybody, even the elderly, can have a go!

Having attended LSF in the past and taken part in several workshops as well as submitting a screenplay scene for direction at the festival, my fear of trying to write horror stories was not as great as it might have b…

Susan Law · 16 September 2024 · 1 min

A Push by Richie Brown

It’s only lately that I stopped all that and started to write creatively, following a stroke and medical retirement. Not so good, but it could have been much worse, so I’m very lucky. (Just prior to the stroke, I was…

Richie Brown · 4 November 2016 · 2 min