Welcome to Mind The Gap! I'm delighted to be in Issue 1.

‘I urge you to take this course,’ said Chris the wannabe writer, puffing his chest out audibly. ‘I’ve just learnt so much about perspective, dialogue, body language, and senses. And it’s fantastic value.’

Thank you very much, Paul, for pushing this one out again, my first stab at a 'you' voice. It was my first published story, so I'm especially fond of it. The same applies to its publisher.

Delighted to be included in this lovely journal with a story that means a lot to me. Big thanks to EIC Hannah, and to Steve Smythe for his help with this one.

Delighted to be placed in this new competition. Big thanks to Rebecca and Lola and congratulations to Jane and Ariana.

And thank you to Annick for keeping me caked over 35 years.

Delighted to have some sin in here. Big thanks to Madi for brilliant editing suggestions.

Stephen Smythe is a master of concision and suggestion (like, he won the Bangor Literary Journal Forty Words Comp). In 'Looking for Love' you'll find forty of his best.

Thank you to Emma Phillips for choosing my story, written on Matt Kendrick’s Glorious Words course. The materials are meticulously presented, you get to keep them for eternity, Matt’s feedback is beyond detailed, the course is amazing value, and I recommend it to you unreservedly.

Delighted to be podded and to have been part of an awesome Zoom launch last week. Thank you Dami.

Delighted to be in this great-looking issue. Thank you to Tejaswinee and Ankit for choosing my stories.

So thrilled to be in this great magazine. Big thanks to Eleonora Balsano, Rae Cowie, Barbara Marsh and Amanda Saint for all their help with this one.

Me too. It's a brilliant course.

Delighted at this; big thanks to Judge Emma, and to Ian at FFF for running this great competition. Congrats to all SL and LL (what a stellar list).

Thank you Amanda. I'm blushing.

Delighted to be included in this. Big thanks to Madeehah and Safiya.

Thank you for the RT, RW.

I am completely gobsmacked and thrilled to bits, especially after getting nowhere in nine competitions this month. Big thanks to NFFD NZ for such a brilliant, and nail-biting, contest and congrats to every LL and SL writer (all the SL pieces convinced me I wasn’t going to show).

And the last two special mentions by Chris Cottom (Chris Cottom) :
Colchester's Coolest crazycatstheatre.wixsite.com/ccats/special-…
and Why Rabbits Make Poor Pets crazycatstheatre.wixsite.com/ccats/special-…