The Impact Festival Run For 2023… What’s happening and can you represent the film?
Following the premiere of The Impact last summer , I entered the film into a schlew of top tier festivals. Sadly, none of the bit. This means I am now chasing big festivals, but not the huge ones like Sundance, Cannes…
Chris Jones · 8 February 2023 · 1 min
‘Frank’… a story inspired by Create50
Before a friend suggested the Singularity competition, I’d never really written a short story. I ended up submitting four, all featuring the everyman character, Frank. It was great to have two stories short-listed. So…
Chris Jones · 17 November 2018 · 1 min
Disclosure: I’d never written a single word of science-fiction… By Carmen Radtke
Disclosure: I’d never written a single word of science-fiction. Read, sure, watched, hell yes, but writing? Then along came Singularity50, and while I loved the concept I had no intention to take part. More importantl…
Chris Jones · 11 November 2018 · 1 min
‘Rothschild’s Giraffe’ and the Little Brown Job
On the basis (a) of Chris Jones’s call for blogs and (b) that this blog may well be better than my story ‘Rothschild’s Giraffe’, here goes. (It’s not so much a blog as a plea for redemption.) The suggested timeline fo…
Chris Jones · 19 October 2018 · 2 min
How a Sci-Fi Screenplay Ended up in an Anthology of Short Stories
Back in 2015, before the invention of Brexit and Trump, I wrote a short screenplay called Automatic Drive. Inspired by the development of driverless vehicles, I imagined a future in which corporations responsible for…
Mark Renshaw · 24 February 2018 · 2 min
Finding Your Confidence by Ashlee Renz-Hotz
The Create50 community imparts something incredibly valuable to its writers – almost like finding gold at the end of a rainbow. Not only does it instill a sense of accomplishment, bringing an urgency to write, but als…
Chris Jones · 15 November 2017 · 1 min