Writing and winning are wonderful!

Ruth Hartley Storytelling, Festival, Truth Dare Command, Writing ProcessLeave a Comment

I am a prize-winner for the first time I am thrilled to be a runner-up in the Charroux Litfest competition for my short story Truth, Dare, Command. Thank you Charroux Litfest and thank you Charroux organisers – Kate Rose and Barbara Sage. I know you do an unpaid, time-consuming labour of love. The theme of the competition was Truth and […]

Readers, writers and arithmetic for authors and storytellers searching for readers at literary festivals in France

Ruth Hartley Storytelling, Books by Ruth Hartley, Festival, Promotion, The Shaping of Water, The Tin Heart Gold Mine, Writing Process1 Comment

How do writers and readers get together? They go to the Second Salon du Livre at the Salle Multimedia in Vic en Bigorre on the 23rd September We are all  readers  and more and more of us are writers too. How can writers find readers? That means you and me of course. Well – here we are one week away […]