In this case Chicklit isn’t a fiction genre, but a fictional chicken. She features in my short story What Use Is A Hen Which Doesn’t Lay? .

I’m delighted she’s through the first round of the latest Kishboo magazine competition. Click on the title to read it for free – and if you like it please do vote for it and improve her chances of winning!

Doing that’s free too and you can vote for more than one if you can’t decide which you like best.

I don’t have any photos of chickens, so here are some alternative farm animals.