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Ever wondered if entering a writing competition is worth it? Well, watch my YouTube video to find out! Below is my list of places to submit your novel or short story, just to get you started: Novel Competitions Some of these are closing very soon, so you need to get a shake on if you want to enter those ones this year! Bath Novel Award/ Bath Children's Novel Award. Aurora Writing Prize. New Writers' Novel Prize. Reedsy Novel Sprint. The Caledonia Novel Award. Short Story Comp

I thought I'd get on this train and begin a Substack. What is it? How is it different? Who knows! But I'm going to find out. https://klbexon.substack.com/?r=37ev11&utm_campaign=pub-share-checklist Follow me if you're curious where this all goes. I plan on releasing content that is exclusive to Substack, so click to make sure you don't miss out.

What a great event last weekend. Everyone wrote such brilliant pieces and the performances were fantastic. Watch me perform my short 'The Edge of my Future', inspired by Ruth Allen's workshop with the Ashbourne Writers' Group.

I have been frantically flapping around on YouTube for a whole year now, and so to celebrate I have made a One Year Anniversary Special. In this video, I look at an old short story that I submitted to New York Midnight (https://www.nycmidnight.com/ ) years ago and not only rip it apart, but give advice on how I would adapt things now that I have learned a few lessons about writing. Please check it out if you want a bit of a laugh; the story is quite ridiculous: https://www.yo

Since my last post, I have been lucky enough to take part in another NWS Anthology: The Light is Fading . We had another brilliant launch event in Nottingham Central Library, and I was pleased to read out my emotional short story ' The Concluding Splashes on the Canvas '. It was a bit of a tonal shift from my previous NWS story. There were so many different styles of stories read out that evening, there was something for everybody. I have spent a lot of time at Nottingham Cen

Find my work in here I have had quite a busy year, as you will know if you follow any of my social media. So much so, that I realise that I have not updated this website for quite some time. Eek! So many wonderful writerly things have happened in the last year that I thought a quick catch up would be best! In the future, I plan to keep this site updated much more regularly. Since I last posted, I have climbed my biggest mountain so far: my first novel. I am adding the fin

By K.L Bexon His eyes glittered, full of humour. His teeth flashed as he repeated himself during the journey along the winding, rut filled track. “Last one, last one.” The jeep flung down the rut, and immediately up, my vision flinging with it. The game driver’s laugh was infectious; I could only imagine what my face looked like, how inexperienced. I allowed myself to be carried away by it, to fly with it through the warm air rushing past. To escape. Coming around the b

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Some folks seem surprised by my defence of the horror genre being the best. I have loved horror since I was tiny. My first taste of...

I have been writing and submitting short stories in earnest now for about ten months and have learned a few things along the way. No...

So, now you've found the time to get writing, how do you actually...get on with it? In a society where everything is instant, everything...

By K.L Bexon With the increased use of ChatGPT, some writers have become concerned about what it could mean for them and their...

It seems simple, right? If you have a goal, then you can only accomplish your goal by setting time aside to tackle it. But what happens...

Check out K.L Bexon's haunting vampire drabble, Longing, published in Trembling With Fear. The work is published alongside that of...