Dedicated to the older writer
Welcome to WriteTime
If you’re over 60 and you’d like to do more with your writing, this is the place for you.
As a social enterprise dedicated to the older writer, we publish new short stories from across the world and we run regular fiction writing competitions.
Winning stories are published here on our website. For the top three stories plus Highly Commended listings AND details of our free feedback offer, see our Winners/Highly Commended pages.
The best short stories are selected for our showcase Anthology. Buy the WriteTime THREE book here.
If you’ve got some good stories to tell:
Now is the time.
Here is the place.
Get writing!
Encouraging writers over 60 to be their best
Latest Winner
A Watcher
By John Carmichael
The first draw of a skinny cigarette burned the back of her throat, and her hand quickly wafted the wisps of thin exhaled smoke towards the open kitchen window she sat beside. She tightened as she caught herself going through the motion. The last ember of tobacco was extinguished among the stub marks of a hundred other cigarettes on the sooty stone windowsill. She pinged the dead butt from the third floor.
“Is that you smoking again?”
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Runners-Up
By Gayle Beveridge
Dear Mama,
I hope you don’t mind me calling you Mama. David always says he wants us to be one big family now we’re married. I guess he just wants me to love you as much as he does. In fact, Mama, he never stops talking about you. Why, there has been barely a moment on our honeymoon that he hasn’t taken the time to explain to me how I can do things better, the way you do. I’ve been learning to fold his clothes the way you do, make the bed the way you do, mix his drinks the way you do.
By Stan Riley
Three women are sitting together in a pub. “I had a bit of a weird one the other night. Right strange, he was,” says the first one, the youngest.
“Strange how?” asks the second.
“Well, I’m upstairs in the room, and he comes in and shuts the door. But when he turns round and looks at me, he kind of stops and jerks back, as if he’s had a bit of a shock. So I says to him, It’s all right, darling, you’ll be okay. No need to be scared.
If you’re working on a new short story, or dusting off an old one, some of these pointers might help.
Get the plot right
How will it end?
Make sure your characters are authentic
You need to know them inside out, how they think and how they speak.
Every writer wants to see their work in print – and reach the widest audience. The WriteTime Anthology is a rare prize and our third collection is now available. Another stunning collection of short stories by older writers, produced to the very highest standards.
Click on the book to get there.
