Diary dates for 2012
Happy new year, everyone! Apart from editing some old stories and forming a mild Goodreads addiction, I’ve had a pretty quiet start to the year. I’m back to college tomorrow, though, so I hope to get back in a good writing routine soon. Here’s some dates I’m looking forward to in 2012 – books, movies and deadlines:
20 January. The deadline for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition is this Friday. It’s prestigious, it’s well-paying – and they got over 800 entries last year. Meep.
31 January. Deadline for the Sean Dunne Young Writers’ Awards. I won this last year and can say it’s a brilliant outlet and opportunity for young writers.
10 February. Release of Young Adult, starring Charlize Theron as a bratty YA author, and featuring the Juno dream team of Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman.
20 March. The first Shins album in five years, Port of Morrow, is released. I was obsessed with The Shins in my undergrad days and if ‘Simple Song’ is anything to go by, they’re still their jangly, catchy, indie-pop selves.
23 March. The Hunger Games movie is out! Love the book, and couldn’t be happier with the cast (Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland and Wes Bentley in particular). Josh Hutcherson will likely turn me Team Peeta.
31 March. Deadline for two great journals – The Stinging Fly and Short FICTION.
5 April. The blindingly brilliant Kevin Barry publishes his second collection of short stories, Dark Lies the Island.
27 April. Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. That is all.
8 May. Tentative release date for A Thoroughly Good Blue, the anthology my creative writing class is putting together. Like us on Facebook or follow us on twitter: @a_good_blue
Such a good list – I’d wondered where The Shins had gone – loved Wincing The Night Away! Looking forward to The Hunger Games too and also, Prometheus. It seems intriguing. Yes to The Avengers but also the other Whedon film The Cabin in the Woods. Zadie Smith is bringing out her first book in 7 years so that should be worth a look – it’s called NW.
Prometheus … Fassbender is in that, isn’t he?
Watched the Cabin In the Woods trailer, had not a notion what was going on but it’s Joss, it has to be good. Forgot about The Dark Knight Rises too.
I have never read Zadie Smith, though I have On Beauty. Am I better off starting with White Teeth?
Cinema trip to see Young Adult, possibly aided with a drinking game? It sounds hideous and yet I’m fairly sure I won’t be able to stay away.
IT WILL BE AMAZING. Let’s do it!
I wanna come to the young adult drinking game!