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Please forgive the extra newsletter.  We just wanted to send a quick email around to our regular readers to say that the 2017/18 GBP Short Story Prize is now open to submissions. We launched at the weekend and it’s already going great guns. 

 

 

 

 

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Sorry to keep you waiting so long for a newsletter. I've missed writing them. It's good to be back.

 

I’ll explain my long absence towards the bottom of the page. But first, and more importantly: We have news. So much news. About our wonderful writers. 

 

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And for the first time ever – it’s Elly here, not Sam. 

 

 

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This book is going to blow your lid off:

 

 

 

We’re proud that it’s now in our store. 

 

Here’s the low down:

 

 

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And first: thank you. A few weeks ago, crushed near flat under the weight of a post-Brexit print bill we launched a special appeal. You, our dear readers, to bought so many books it almost made up for the current shortfall. Financially and pschologically, it made all the difference in the world. Once again, you have saved our bacon and we live to fight another day/month/year/eternity. I’m more grateful than I know how to say for the generosity people showed us.

 

 

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I should apologise for the fact that it’s been quite a bit more than a month since I last sent a newsletter. But instead I’m going to distract you with this picture of a cute puppy:

 

 

That’s Sirius and he’s been tearing things up for the last few weeks in Galley Beggar towers. Literally:

 

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We've just had our fourth birthday. We've made it! And we couldn’t have got here without the superb support our readers have shown for our writers. So thank you, profoundly and seriously.

 

Less profoundly, and less seriously: four! We’re old enough to  have learned some swear words and use the big toilet. But not so old that you wouldn’t put it past us to lie down in the street and start screaming for sweeties. We know a few more things than when we started out, but we sure as hell aren’t mature. And that’s a fun place to be. 

 

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