Tom Turner (The Failing Writers Podcast), podcaster & voice artiste

But before you go, is there anything you want to tell the listeners about?

Yes, actually, we are starting, so when this comes out, on the very day this comes out, we are starting our annual flash fiction contest.

So we ask people to write a short, so flash fiction is really short, a really short story.

And so on the podcast we're launching today, there's £500 for the first prize.

There's all the details about entry.

And there's a little phrase that we need to get in there.

And we're talking to the judge of our competition, David Gaffney, who's a brilliant, brilliant flash fiction writer.

He's going to be judging it for us.

So if people want to listen to that and fancy writing a short story just for the experience or because they fancy winning 500 quid, which, you know, isn't bad good stuff then have a listen yeah and uh See if you can write a few hundred words and

write a nice little story.

Right.

Well, we'll put a link in the show notes to your podcast as well so people can check that out.

And obviously, because it's the episode today, we won't be able to send them straight to that episode, but I'm sure they can find it.

So that's fine.

How does one get to the point where they can offer £500 for a contest on their podcast? How does that work? Do you have a sponsor who does that? Or are you just extremely wealthy? Yeah.

There is a small fee for entry, but it is much less than a lot of the other writing competitions that you see online.

There's a whole thing

online of writing competitions that charge an absolute fortune

to do it.

We always, as part of our thing, we try and be as inclusive as we possibly can be.

Um, yeah.