Prize-winning stories and poems – 3
Today's poem, The Fisherman's Tale, is inspired by Devon and the local fishermen who risk life and limb to bring food to the tables of the south-west community. It reminds us of the dangerous job they…
Prize-winning poems and stories – 2
To continue with my selection of poems and stories which have won something for me in the past, today's is a short story called The Eye of the Beholder. As the title implies, it isn't always right to…
Prize-winning poems and stories
Today, with the spirit of a brand new year still around, I'm going to begin a series of blogs containing some of my award-winning poems and stories from the last twenty years of my published work. To check…
Plans for 2024 – 2
So here we are; Happy New Year to one and all, and here's hoping it proves to be a more peaceful and constructive one than its predecessor.
I'm told Roxanne Riding Hood is riding pretty high at the…
Plans for 2024 – 1
I have three books in the pipeline for 2024, and all of them are already sufficiently advanced plans for me to be able to describe them in a blog.
The first one is not the most cheerful for this time…
Roxanne is up and running!
Today’s the day for Roxanne Riding Hood and Other Dubious Tales to hit the book sites, and a random check this morning shows that the book’s hit quite a few of them, including Amazon, W.H. Smith, Waterstone’s,…
A week to go until the next book launch
Roxanne Riding Hood and Other Dubious Tales will be officially published a week today, on November 28th, though it is already available on a whole collection of sites, including Amazon, W.H. Smith, Waterstone’s…
Two Weeks Remaining
Just over two weeks until the publication of Roxanne Riding Hood and Other Dubious Tales on January 28th, and it’s time for the preview of the book to move back to the opening stories. I will say again…
Remember the back catalogue
Whenever anyone produces blurb about books, they always seem to concentrate on the front of the book, even sometimes arranging a ‘peep’ into the opening pages. For short story books, this always…
Roxanne On The Way
My short story collection, Roxanne Riding Hood and Other Dubious Tales, is to be published on November 28th. The dubious tales bit refers to the fact that the content of a few of them might be said to…
Better late than never
'Diamond Val' was originally intended to be published on May 28th, but due to technical hitches, i.e. the printers running out of paper, its new official publication date is now June 28th, so whoever is…
About Bruce Harris
Bruce Harris is a Devon-based author and poet who has been consistently successful in short fiction and poetry competitions since 2003, after a long teaching and research career involving published journalism.
Bruce has published four collections of short fiction, Fallen Eagles (2021), The Guy Thing (2018), Odds Against (2017), and First Flame (2013), and three poetry collections, The Huntington Hydra (2019), Kaleidoscope (2017) and Raised Voices (2014). His first novel, Howell Grange, was published by the Book Guild in October 2019; his second, Gemini Day, was published by The Conrad Press in July 2021, and his third, The Densham Do was published by Book Guild publication on February 28th 2022.