Recent Successes …

Why do we writers keep scribbling? Well, apart from it being our passion and, hopefully, a few readers telling us they’ve enjoyed one of our stories, occasionally a bit of good news arrives along with the hundreds of rejections. Any kind of writing success is like winning the lottery: rare as the proverbial rocking horse shit, so in a spirit of solidarity, I’m sharing a few recent contest successes …

My yet-to-be-published novel, ‘The Rhythm of Time’ has just been long-listed for the 2025 Page Turner Awards (🤞that it progresses further). You can read my entry here: https://pageturnerawards.com/writing-award-2025/the-rhythm-of-time/award-submission

Here’s a (very long) list of finalists: https://pageturnerawards.com/2025-award-results/2025-writing-award-finalists

ROT also made it to the Cinnamon Press literature award long-list: https://cinnamonpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/lit-comp-results-2024.pdf

One of my short stories (actually, an extract from ROT) was a finalist in the Globe Soup Flashback Fiction Challenge: https://www.globesoup.net/2025-flashback-fiction-challenge-winner

And another extract from ROT, ‘The Rhythm of Life’, is currently short listed for the Write By The Sea Flash Fiction contest (🤞again): https://writebythesea.ie/writing-competition/

Published by Richard Attree

Growing up in London in the 1960s—an exciting time, and place, to be a teenager, my passions were books and music. I always wanted to be a writer, but was diverted into writing music rather than books, and for the next thirty years I composed music for TV. For the next thirty years I composed music for TV and radio, working at the BBC’s renowned Radiophonic Workshop, before going freelance. While at the BBC, I won two Sony Awards for ‘The Most Creative Use of Radio’. In 2007, I retired from the media music business and downshifted to Tenerife to focus on writing (initially, short stories, travel articles for magazines, a column in a local paper etc). Since then I’ve co-authored two novels with my wife and self-published one of my own. I write for love. It’s my passion, and I’m very fortunate to ‘live my dream’ (to use the jargon of reality TV). Stories, characters, ideas and words are my obsession … and my motto is: ‘Keep Scribbling!’ My debut solo novel TOO CLOSE TO THE WIND, a philosophical thriller, was published in 2019. It’s a story of survival, an epic travel adventure, and a celebration of wind, surf, and the human spirit. View more posts