John’s Diary Dates and Interviews:

by admin on October 18, 2010

Recent and Upcoming Diary Dates

Interviews Given By John

WOW! Award and Anthology

by admin on May 23, 2011

John’s story RHONDA ON THE HILL is one of ten stories shortlisted for this year’s WOW! award by literary publishers Wordsonthestreet. Final placings and the launch of the anthology will be at an awards ceremony in Galway on Friday 17th June.

Unfortunately John can’t be there as he is scheduled to fly out to Italy that morning.

First National Short Story Competition

December 20, 2010

John’s story, Dancing on Clouds, has been awarded third place in the New Eastbourne Writers’ First National Short Story Competition. Judges Joan Moules and Peter Lovesey were delighted by the high quality of the writing. They were of the opinion that many of the unsuccessful entries were worthy of publication. This brings the year to a pleasant conclusion for [...]

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Shortlisting in the UK Authors Opening Pages Competition

December 16, 2010

John’s latest book A SOFT HANGING has been shortlisted in this prestigious competition.  The UK Authors Opening Pages Competition is an internationally renowned annual competition which gives in-depth feedback from up to ten reviewers, with full professional assessment and advice, and publication by the UKA Press. This current year saw a considerably greater number of entries than usual, many of [...]

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Anthology – Requiems for the Departed 2010

October 13, 2010

STOP PRESS – The readers of Spinetinglers Magazine (USA) have voted Requiems for the Departed the best anthology published in the last year. It has been said before, that every story has already been told. Maybe so. But if you’ve got the gift of the gab, you can tell the same tale as often as [...]

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The Spinetinglers Anthology 2009

October 13, 2010

John’s story ELEVEN MINUTES, FORTY-SEVEN SECONDS was voted one of the stories the members would most like to read again. To quote the editor. “Voting was close and this really is an achievement and honour to be chosen. The members in case you were not aware selected twelve stories from July 2007 through to June [...]

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Posts in Creative Writing

October 12, 2010

John McAllister was the Leader of the Armagh Writer’s Group from 1999 to 2005. During that time three of his pupils published their own collection of poems and prose. John also edited Hometown (ABC Publishing, 2004) an anthology of local writing. From 2005 until 2007 John was the writer in residence at the Millennium Court [...]

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