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You see? You see? He’s not a machine, he’s a man! He’s a man!

published in From the Editor

on September 24, 2009

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He's a man! He's a man!

While Some Blind Alleys has been busy shortlisting entrants for its writing competition, Some Blind Alleys got shortlisted itself. The Irish Web Awards 2009 has shortlisted us in two categories:

Best Online Publication

&

Best Arts Website

Shortlistees in Best Online Publication include: The Irish Times. As a result, I am now hiring 49 people as full-time staff at Some Blind Alleys. Mostly the work will involve long breakfasts at cafes around the city, and long boozy lunches. And we’ll walk around on our mobile phones demanding that reports be on our desk by no later than five minutes ago.

In the other category, Best Arts Website, I think a few shortlistees had their sites designed by Lightbox. My site was designed by entering the following phrase into Google: “Wordpress plugins why won’t they fucking work?”

Despite the impossible odds, it’s gratifying to get this far. And it’s the content – obviously – that is attracting traffic, and not the special effects – so all contributors are deeply thanked, and urged to keep sending, etc.

1 Response to “You see? You see? He’s not a machine, he’s a man! He’s a man!”

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1 Joe McCarthy
September 26, 2009 at 8:41 am

Congratulations on a very significant achievement.

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Praise for the Workshops

"Greg Baxter is an essayist and fiction writer with a mission: to get Dubliners reading good literature."
- The Dubliner
Best Creative Writing Course
Best of Dublin 2010

“There are many people who teach creative writing, but in my opinion Greg Baxter is the best we have in Ireland. He always gives brilliant advice, he is consistent, he is rigorous and he is inspiring. There is no better place to go, whether you want to start writing, or continue writing, or improve your writing – fiction or non-fiction – than Some Blind Alleys.
-Carlo Gébler
Author, A Good Day For A Dog

“Greg Baxter’s courses are unlike any other creative writing courses I’ve ever heard of: they are better. If you don’t like being challenged, the Some Blind Alleys courses are not for you. If you do, they may change your life.”
-Brendan Barrington
Editor, Dublin Review
Senior Editor, Penguin Ireland

“Something – maybe a breeze or a hurricane – is happening in Irish writing – when was the last time anyone said that? – thanks to Greg Baxter. His impatience for flimsy writing won’t win him the love of fiction’s shitchurners, but young scribes have taken note.”
-Le Cool