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Writing News April 2019 - Part 2

April's turning out to be a very successful month for me. 

As I have flagged late last year, I'm very happy to announce that my first eco-tale (I am currently writing a series of seven tales) has now been published online by GRIFFITH REVIEW.

I'm very lucky to be in such amazing company of writers! 

A BIG THANKS to Catherine McKinnon and Christine Howe, as well as Ashley Hay (editor) and her colleagues at Griffith Review for bringing these stories to light!


Things we want to know but forget to ask - stories about the painted past and the precarious future, comprise also works by Christine Howe, Luke Johnson, Susan Ballard, Joshua Lobb, Catherine McKinnon and Tess Barber. Note: My work is published under my name, Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, not my pen name, Freddy Iryss.

" 'Things we want to know but forget to ask' is a collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry from seven talented writers in response to seven different artworks held by the Wollongong Art Gallery." (Griffith Review, April 2019).

Find the entire collection, including the artworks, here.

>>I'd love to get some comments from you!<<

Writing News

Writing NEWS April 2019


Part of my 2018/19 goals is, as you may remember from my post to 5. Write more shorts and SUBMIT to competitions. 

Well, true to my goal, I have been writing away and sending off to many, many competitions in these first three months of 2019. 

And I have good news: THREE of my flash-Fiction stories, 'Match', 'Spacepirates' and 'Take Away' will be published mid 2019 in the SciFi anthology Worlds - Dark Drabbles #1, by Black Hare Press.

Admittedly, it was a challenge on many levels, last but not least to write the whole story in exactly one hundred words!

I also learned something about myself in the process. By pushing my self-made boundaries out (e.g. what I can and cannot write about), I entered another world of opportunities and possibilities that I haven't imagined before. 

> So it is true: if you can imagine it, it can come true!<

I know now that I can imagine and write about worlds set in the future that feel alien and yet strangely familiar and possible all the same. 


(Only - I really, really hope that what I have imagined in these two stories about spacepirates and newly colonised planets will stay what it is - Science Fiction!)

I'll post more about it when it comes out later this year!