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		<title>James Benmore on writing Dodger #2: the voice of Dodger</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 09:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reading Diary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[All These Little Worlds]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Benmore&#8217;s first novel, Dodger, features the return of the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist. Last month, he wrote for us about the appeal of the Dodger and why he chose to bring him back. This month, he talks about creating the voice of Dodger, and how the character might have come to write a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Corrigan on &#8216;Wonders of the Universe&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 09:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crying Just Like Anybody]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Colin Corrigan talks about science vs religion vs random fate in his new story, 'Wonders of the Universe'.]]></description>
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		<title>James Benmore on writing Dodger #1: the Artful Dodger and the first Dickensians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month we&#8217;re celebrating the publication of the first novel from Fiction Desk favourite James Benmore. Dodger (published by Heron Books) revisits the character of the Artful Dodger from Charles Dickens&#8217; Oliver Twist, seeing him return to a much-changed London six years after transportation to Australia. But he&#8217;s not yet a free man&#8230; Dodger is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three new books on the way from Charles Lambert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading Diary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to hear that Fiction Desk favourite Charles Lambert has secured publishers for not one but three new books. It&#8217;s been almost three years since the publication of Lambert&#8217;s last novel, Any Human Face, making him the author equivalent of a city bus (you wait years for one, and then&#8230;). Two of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matthew Licht on &#8216;Across the Kinderhook&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/matthew-licht-on-across-the-kinderhook/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/matthew-licht-on-across-the-kinderhook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crying Just Like Anybody]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Matthew Licht on the origins of his story &#8216;Across the Kinderhook&#8217;, from our anthology Crying Just Like Anybody. Plans for a summer apartment/cat-sitter situation in Madrid went awry and I wound up basically a squatter in a rough neighborhood, with African temperatures, no electricity, cold water, a mattress on the floor and a cement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Die Booth on &#8216;Phantoms&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the latest of our &#8216;stories behind stories&#8216; series, author Die Booth talks about the inspiration behind &#8216;Phantoms&#8217;, which appears in our anthology Crying Just Like Anybody. I always wonder why so many people are scared of dolls. Not dolls in general, but more specifically old ones, the type made of porcelain or wax, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our ghost story writing competition is open now!</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/our-ghost-story-competition-is-open-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/our-ghost-story-competition-is-open-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 13:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction Desk News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing Advice & News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve just launched a new writing competition: while the last one was about finding shorter stories than we usually publish, this one is about looking for stories in a genre we don&#8217;t see much of here at The Fiction Desk: the ghost story. The top prize in this competition is £500, and the deadline for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winners of our 2013 Flash Fiction Competition</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/winners-of-our-2013-flash-fiction-competition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/winners-of-our-2013-flash-fiction-competition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Damon King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flash Fiction competition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ian Shine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Collett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matt Plass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Lenehan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tania Hershman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Judging our first writing competition has been a real challenge. It&#8217;s a cliché to say that the standard of entries was high, but it was: there were some terrific stories in there. Finally, though, we have our winners. The finalists are: Gavin Cameron, with &#8216;A Big Leap&#8217; James Collett, with &#8216;The Clever Skeleton&#8217; Damon King, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing the Fiction Desk Writer&#8217;s Award for Crying Just Like Anybody.</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/announcing-the-fiction-desk-writers-award-for-crying-just-like-anybody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/announcing-the-fiction-desk-writers-award-for-crying-just-like-anybody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[S R Mastrantone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again, when I get to announce the winner of the Fiction Desk Writer&#8217;s Award for our latest volume. Up today is the winner for volume 4, Crying Just Like Anybody. The Writer&#8217;s Award is judged by the contributors to the volume, each contributor getting two votes, and the writer with the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luiza Sauma on &#8216;Carolina Carioca&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/luiza-sauma-on-carolina-carioca/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/luiza-sauma-on-carolina-carioca/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Stories behind Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s Luiza Sauma on the inspiration behind her story &#8216;Carolina Carioca&#8217;, which appears in our anthology Crying Just Like Anybody. &#8216;Carolina Carioca&#8217; is about a middle-class Englishman who falls in love with a working-class Brazilian woman, brings her home and realises how different they are. It&#8217;s about how love across cultures burns brightly, and often [...]]]></description>
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