Sabotage Reviews

The Sabotage Reviews website sadly went offline in late 2024. An archive of reviews can still be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. We hope to revive the annual Saboteur Awards but for now they remain on hiatus. web.archive.org/web/2024101123…

Keep those #submissions coming... we are reading for #poetry, #shortfiction and #flashfiction. Subs are always free #writingcommunity

It’s always a joy to receive a hand typed poem in the post from @PoetPaulBirtill Let’s get that documentary made. @edgehillice @SabotageReviews @badwool9 @wowfest @frankcottrell_b

Excited to share that @LeviTafariPoet will be guest judge of the winning flash fiction pieces for our Flashback Canning Dock competition with @wowfest & @NML_Muse. Submit your 500-word stories by end of Fri 22 Sept, inspired by 1 of 4 prompts #flashfiction #WritingCommmunity

We are thrilled to announce that @LeviTafariPoet will be our guest judge for our Flashback: Canning Dock Flash Fiction competition in collaboration with @NML_Muse! Get your pens ready & craft your winning story. Deadline: 22 September Enter: tinyurl.com/mdruj6z3! 📝🏆

When you're ready to enter your 500-word flash fiction piece, you can submit via this online form: ow.ly/Vzz250PChty If you have any difficulties with the form, you can email your entry to Waterfront.Transformation@liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Best of luck!

Feel free to use 1 of the 4 prompts as a jumping-off point to get started, or you can delve deeper into the history of the Canning Graving Docks. More info can be found on the @wowfest & @NML_Muse websites, along with some optional writing exercises: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/flashback-cann…

Prompt 4 is a present-day aerial photograph of the Canning Graving Docks by Stratus Imagery. What might it look like in the future? The present graving docks were originally constructed in 1765-9, and they have undergone various repairs and modifications over the centuries.

Prompt 3 is a newspaper clipping of a marriage announcement in the Liverpool Mercury from 1814. Canning graving dock was given as the address: 'MARRIED. A few days ago, Capt. Thos. Ellis, of the brig Favourite, to Mrs Mary Brian, of the Ben Jonson, south end of the Dry Dock.'

(list of goods traded cont...) walnuts, chestnuts, dried fruits, mother of pearl, ale, seal oil, ox hides, sacking, glass, bricks, emery stones, hardware, guns, nails, hinges, pots and pans, cables, copper ore, tallow, cotton and cotton wool, flax, coal, rigging and sailcloth.

Prompt 2 is a list of goods traded at the graving docks: Wood (lima wood, teak, Nicaragua wood, greenheart), fruit (plums, grapes), rum, brandy, sherry, wines, cattle and animal parts (horns, bones), anchovies, herring, codfish, tripe, ham, mutton, beef, cheese, pickled butter,

Prompt 1 is a painting of the Baboo, a ship lying on its side in one of the dry docks: ‘Baboo overset in Canning Graving Dock, Liverpool’ by E D M Y. (Collection of Merseyside Maritime Museum, 1987.248.2).

I'm running a flash fiction competition with @wowfest & @NML_Muse and would love to read your 500-word stories inspired by Liverpool's Canning Graving Docks. Choose from 1 of 4 prompts and submit by Fri 22 Sept '23 (deadline extended from Tue 5 Sept). writingonthewall.org.uk/projects/flash…

#WritingPrompt 3!👇 What does this newspaper clipping make you think of? You've got 500 wrds to arrange some kind of marriage on Canning Dock! Feeling inspired? Submit your flash fiction writing here for the chance to win some incredible prizes: ow.ly/Vzz250PChty

Happy Saturday! Kick off the weekend with #WritingPrompt #2 for Flashback! 👇 Is it possible to write a story in the form of a list or receipt? 🤔 Feeling inspired? Submit your flash fiction writing here for the chance to win some incredible prizes: ow.ly/Vzz250PChty

#WritingPrompt #1 for Flashback! What does this old painting of Canning Dock make you want to write? Does a story spring to mind? Feeling inspired? Submit your flash fiction writing here for the chance to win some incredible prizes: ow.ly/Vzz250PChty

We are NOW OPEN for submissions to the Dinesh Allirajah Prize for short fiction 2024. 👉 2000 - 7500 words 👉 Submissions close 22nd September 👉 Theme is 'The Uncanny' No entry fee. No experience. Just one stellar short story. Find out more: commapress.co.uk/news/dinesh-al…

We're please to announce the judges for this year's Edge Hill Prize are Saba Sams, winner of last year's prize, Lucy Luck, agent at C&W Agency and short story writer and Edge Hill CW lecturer Andrea Ashworth.

Congratulations to the following publishers for making the longlist of the Edge Hil Prize: @reflexfiction @saltpublishing @riverrunbooks @AdHocFiction @SerenBooks @DeadInkBooks @canongatebooks @NoAlibisPress @UnsungTweets #arlenhouse