You might imagine a year in which the first email was sent, a spacecraft, Mariner 9, successfully entered Mars orbit for the first time, Intel…
Martyn Winters: Author, Composer, Musician
Author: MartynWinters
Twenty-twenty was cut through by the Grim Reaper’s scythe, not least because of its predecessor’s gift to the world, the Novel Coronavirus Covid-19, which left…
Penguin have put online a few web-pages with tips and hints on how to get an agent, what editors are looking for etc. If you…
A short flash fiction for you to enjoy: McCain was a precocious student and as he stood before the assembled great and good of theoretical…
Wandering through social media, I occasionally find a photograph which affects me deeply. Great photographs are not always just in the purview of trained photographers.…
Kyle Devine, in his recent book, “Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music,” writes “The environmental cost of music is now greater than at any time…
Here’s a new short story for you to read. Originally, it was a 700 word flash fiction which I edited down to 500 for Swansea…
Politics is the art of the possible. You can have all the best policies, but if the electorate doesn’t like you, then you will never…
Lazy justifications for male sexual predatory behaviour sometimes get pseudo-scientific and claim, “Well men are hunters, so they can’t help but go after the game…”…
It’s not been unknown to find me getting a bit sneery at wild medical claims for various tea infusions and at first glance this one…