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The Britannia Bridge carries the A55 and a railway line over which strait? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer’s in. We’ve put a section in to start you off! There may be two Across answers in one line. Down words fill themsel

The Atlantic

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

Woman's Day

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“An experimental novel. Beautiful, spare writing.” “One of the best collections of short fiction I’ve read. I am a big Andrew Roff fan.” “Very quirky. Hilarious.” “Debut novel. Deeply moving account of being a carer.” “Debut short story collectio

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

The Atlantic

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A father-son writing and illustration team tells the story of the Western thinkers that fell afoul of the church at the dawn of modernity.

Writing Magazine

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WordFire Press is looking for full-length fantasy novels about portals to publish in late 2022. Novels may be in any fantasy genre except erotica, and should be no longer than 125,000 words. Website: https://wordfirepress.com/call-for-submissions/ Th

Writing Magazine

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The winner of the Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award is The Principles of Moments, Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson (pictured left), with The Reeves’ Guild, Kyla Jardine, in second. The award was launched last year by Gollancz and Ben Aaronovitch in p

The Writer

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The Claymore Award, sponsored by Killer Nashville, rewards authors of “unpublished English-language manuscripts containing elements of thriller, mystery, crime, or suspense” that are not currently under contract. These elements can also include manus

Writing Magazine

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The winner of Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour will be offered a two-book contract with Joffe Books. In conjunction with bestselling author Dorothy Koomson and literary agent Susan Yearwood, Joffe Books is looking for manuscripts from un

Harper's Bazaar India

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Be prepared to laugh-outloud as you follow four geriatrics in an old age home who are determined to investigate a murder. Hilarious and warm, this bestseller will leave you in a good mood. [Penguin] A half-British, half-Indian sorcerer attends a magi

SFX

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RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Alix E Harrow Publisher Orbit Books Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence. In the case of Alix Harrow’s debut, it’s this: “In the fall of 1903 I was nine, and the world was tasting t

Writing Magazine

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The Friends of Manning’s Pit Saki Short Story Competition 2021 is inviting stories with a spark of wit that relate to wildlife or the countryside. The Manning’s Pit fields in Devon can be seen from the childhood bedroom of the celebrated short story

Writing Magazine

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The Baen Memorial Short Story Award for short stories up to 8,000 words on the near future of manned space exploration offers publication online at industry pro rates. Entry is free. The closing date is 1 February. Website: www.baen.com/contestjbmssa

The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

Writing Magazine

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Publishing commercial fiction, London based Joffe Books invites submissions from writers around the world and encourages, ‘authors of colour, LGTB+ authors and differently abled authors from diverse backgrounds to make their voices heard’. The ‘favou

Writing Magazine

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Publishing writers from around the world, Leading Edge magazine invites submissions of fiction, poetry, non fiction and artwork. The magazine is affiliated and run through Brigham Young University, which has an Honor Code and written and visual submi

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

Writing Magazine

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Henshaw Short Story Competition runs every three months, and is for stories of up to 2,000 words. Prizes are £200, £100 and £50. The entry fee is £6. To allow for the Christmas holiday, the closing date for the December competition is 6 January 2021.

Writing Magazine

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Taramind is an unusual new magazine whose editorial team work around the theme of creative writing ‘in, around, and about science, scientists, and the interaction between science and society.’ The team wish to ‘foster an understanding of science as a

Writing Magazine

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One of the hottest genres in fiction this year, climate fiction explores our effect on the environment, sometimes with a sense of hope, sometimes with regret. The stance you take is up to you. Your story should be 1,500-1,700 words and the closing da

Writing Magazine

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Lonely Cryptid Media is looking for submissions for its second anthology of fiction and poetry: ‘Stories of resistance and rebellion, but also of the steps in between and the change that comes after.’ They want tales or ballads or sagas of, ‘People a

Writing Magazine

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Raven and Drake Publishing is a UK indie ‘focused on supporting and publishing both new and established writers’. Currently closed to novel submissions – which reopen in April – they accept most genres of fiction suitable for children and young adult

Literary Hub

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There are always margaritas at these family reunions. I step through the door of my uncle’s house and within minutes someone hands me a frozen beverage in the same pink plastic glass, rim limed and salted, that I’ve been drinking from since I can rem

Writing Magazine

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I’m about to submit my novel to agents. I’m not sure how to categorise it, whether it’s literary or commercial or somewhere in-between. Could you tell me the difference? This is a time-old question, and one that invites a great deal of debate within

The Writer

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Since 1976, the literary magazine Lilith has published poetry and prose with the goals of amplifying Jewish women’s voices and empowering Jewish girls and women in their lives and in their communities. Editor-in-Chief Susan Weidman Schneider is of th

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

Writing Magazine

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Interpret the ‘school’ theme, widely, in any kind of writing, this month. Fiction or nonfiction are both fine, as are settings in any era or genre. £250 TO BE WON SEE P63 FOR ENTRY DETAILS, FULL RULES AND ENTRY FORMS Your story should be 1,500-1,700

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter