All News Archives - Ali Seegar

Poem ‘Silent Cry’ chosen for London Independent Story Prize anthology

Feb 20, 2025

I’m delighted to learn that my poem ‘Silent Cry’ will be published in the London Independent Story Prize anthology, after making the final selection in their 2024 3rd round competition.

‘Silent Cry’ was inspired by the tragic events in 2021 when the container ship ‘X-press Pearl’ caught fire and then sank off the coast of Sri Lanka, causing one of the worst ever marine ecological disasters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Press_Pearl

I’ll share the publication news once I have more details. For now you can read my interview here. Thank you LISP!

Soirée Littériare with Julia Summerland

Feb 26, 2024

Lovely to spend an evening with Julia Summerland and friends at the Café Littéraire La Bovary in Weimerskirch.

Congratulations to Julia on her new book ‘Julia’s Book of Love’ an insightful and thoughtful study of online dating.

Long list surprise

Jul 28, 2023

Looking at the Stockholm Writer’s Festival ‘First Five Pages’ prize, it was quite a surprise to see my novel in progress ‘Summer’s Shadow’ (working title was Saving Summer) was long listed last year under the Si-fi/Fantasy section! https://stockholmwritersfestival.com/longlist

A big thank you to the judges! I hope to visit your festival soon.

New YA novel long listed for Mslexia competition

Jun 14, 2023

A big thank you to Mslexia for long listing the draft of my new novel ‘Summer’s Shadow’ in their YA/Children’s Novel Writing competition.

Summer’s Shadow is the first book in an epic fantasy series for the YA market.

Sprawling family trees of old Royal households, wars lost and won, an ancient prophecy, a despotic ruler and a country in turmoil are all somehow connected to one naive girl who is thrown suddenly into a desperate battle to save her country from destruction.

I hope to have more news on the series soon!

Published in Hinterland Magazine

Mar 21, 2023

My story ‘And Who Would I Then Have Been’ which explores the theme of identity has been published in Issue 12 of Hinterland Magazine – a quarterly magazine dedicated to non-fiction writing – now available in print and digital.

Buy the issue here www.hinterlandnonfiction.com

Read the interview here