I was published

I won a magazine short fiction contest. The first writing contest I’ve entered since I was a child. I sent it off expecting nothing, and then on my birthday I got an email that I had been picked as their winner. Best birthday ever! Seeing something I’d written in print in a magazine read by thousands of people weekly. Impossible. Incredible. Terrifying. And so, so gratifying. I have loved to write stories since I learned how to put words on a page, and to think that after all this time perhaps I’m actually not bad at it is unspeakably rewarding.

It’s made me want to scour the internet for more prompts, more opportunities, and its turned the humble embers of a long-loved hobby into a burning passionate need to get the stories in my head out into the world.

You miss every shot you don’t take.