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.
Two
anthologies, each containing work by fifty
writers from the Writers' Showcase, have been published in
print. These books are called People of Few
Words and People of Few Words - Volume 2.
Details of both appear on our Home
Page and
on the Writers' Showcase page.
There
are plans to publish further volumes in due
course.
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
The Short Humour Site
is edited by Brian Huggett. He lives with
his wife and two cats in Hampshire,
Engand, and writes Short Humour under the
pen name of Swan Morrison.
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 also writes captions
for humorous greeting cards produced by Paper House and has written
more serious work.
A compilation of one hundred
pieces of Swan Morrison’s Short
Humour, A Man of Few Words, is available from
major online booksellers. Brian has also
completed a second book containing one
hundred further Swan Morrison stories,
dialogues, poems, letters, spoof news
reports, articles and songs. This book, A Man of a Few More
Words, is available from Lulu.com
and planned for wider publication in the
mid 2010. The third book in this Short
Humour trilogy, A Man of Yet a Few
More Words, is a work in progress.
All the books can be read on
this site.
Brian is also a photographer,
and a selection of his favourite work can
be viewed at: http://photographs-by-brian-huggett.blogspot.com.
All profits from the
writings of Swan Morrison are donated to
a UK registered charity, Friends of Teso (Uganda), which supports
people in Africa. We therefore hope that
you might buy a book or two even though
they can be read on this site for free.
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