About The Short
Humour Site
The
Short Humour Site was created by Brian
Huggett and launched in 2006. The Site is edited
by Brian with the support of like-minded friends
and relatives.
The
purpose of the Short Humour Site is to
publish any type of humorous writing of around
500 words. There are currentlypieces
of Short Humour available to read on the site,
and the Writers’ Showcase includes contributions
fromwriters.
The
site philosophy is to publish as many submissions
as possible and to not presume to act as an
arbiter of what is funny. Our belief is that
readers, rather than editors, should decide what
they like. The site therefore includes an
eclectic mix of material, some by writers who
have been published extensively and some by
writers for whom an appearance on the Short
Humour Site has marked their first
publication.
New
contributors are always very welcome. Please see
our Submission Guidelines.
Five
anthologies, each containing work by fifty
writers from the Writers' Showcase, have been published in
print. These books are called People of Few
Words, People of Few Words - Volume 2,
People of Few Words - Volume 3, People of Few
Words - Volume 4 and People of Few Words
- Volume 5. Details of all five appear on
our Home Page and on the Writers' Showcase page.
We hope to publish
People of Few Words
- Volume 6 at some
point although there are no immediate plans to do
this.
The
Short Humour Site is not commercial and
requires no membership. The site also carries no
advertising other than for publications produced
by the site or by contributing writers.
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About The Editor
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The Short
Humour Site is edited by Brian
Huggett. He lives with his wife in
Hampshire, England, and writes under the
pen name of Swan Morrison.
Brian has been retired from
paid employment since 2011 after a career
as a mental health social worker. He now
writes, performs as a singer/guitarist
and plays with a ukulele band. He also
enjoys gardening and is involved with a
national mental health charity.
Brian began to write Short
Humour in 2001 when he managed The
Booger Prize for Short Humour on the
Scoop The Loot competition
website. At that time this was the
longest running, free to enter, Short
Humour competition on the Internet.
Since 2001, Swan Morrison’s
Short Humour has appeared in many
magazines, both online and in print.
Brian has published three
compilations of his own Short Humour
stories (the same stories that appear on
this site).
The books in the trilogy are called:
A Man
of Few Words
A Man
of a Few More Words and
A Man
of Yet a Few More Words
Visit the Short
Humour Trilogy
webpage
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Each book in the trilogy
contains one hundred stories, dialogues,
poems, letters, spoof news reports,
articles and songs. All are available in
paperback and as free eBook downloads.
Brian
has written two novels and a novella.
The novels form a duology and are called:
Judgement Day - Visit the Judgement
Day webpage
Until the End of Time - Visit
the Until
the End of Time
webpage
The novella is called:
Deep Black - Visit
the Deep
Black webpage
Judgement
Day was
the Silver Medal Winner of the 'Fiction -
Humor/Comedy' Category of Dan Poynter's Global Ebook
Awards - 2016.
Brian is currently working
on a more serious adventure novel called Starchild.
Brian is also a photographer,
and a selection of his favourite work can
be viewed at: http://photographs-by-brian-huggett.blogspot.com.
Interviews with Brian can be
read at:
Awesomegang (2015): http://awesomegang.com/?s=swan+morrison
Six Questions For... (2011): http://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.com/search/label/Short%20Humour%20Site
Duotrope's Digest (2010): http://www.duotrope.com/interview.aspx?id=2871.
A radio interview with Brian
on Brighton and Hove Community Radio on
Friday 24th August 2018 can be heard at: https://www.mixcloud.com/susioddball/your-voice-matters-24-august-2018-with-brian-jilliana-and-susi/.
An interview with Jilliana
Ranicar-Breese for
her YouTube Channel can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAshQScAIJ4.
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