Writing Magazine

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Australia’s biggest book prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, has been won by Laura Jean McKay for her debut novel, The Animals in That Country. The novel, which McKay began writing seven years ago, is set during a global pandemic, tho

Writing Magazine

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The Bristol Short Story Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition is for original, unpublished short stories in any style and on any subject by any writer, published or unpublished. All entries must be original and unpublished, an

Writing Magazine

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A new poetry prize from the Edward Thomas Fellowship invites entries on any subject, in any style, up to 40 lines. Each writer may enter up to three poems. Prizes are £150, 2x£75 and up to six highly commended awards of £25. The judge will be poet Ja

New Zealand Listener

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Imagine getting an English degree without ever reading a book. That’s the first feat of many that Tom Flannery, the hero of Patrick Evans’ fifth novel, Bluff world, achieves thanks to his self-professed gift: “I was full of shit and I knew it.” We fi

Writer's Digest

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Rachel Sussman grew up in the suburbs of New York City, graduated from Brown University with a degree in English and American literature and began her publishing career at Scribner, where she honed her editorial skills for four years. Following a yea

Writing Magazine

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Bryan Washington won the £30,000 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize for his debut short story collection, Lot. The themed collection explores the lives of residents of Houston, their community and families. Bryan said, ‘It’s an honour to tell stor

Writing Magazine

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The Writers’ Weekend, to be held virtually, 24-27 June, is inviting entry for its creative writing competitions. • Flash Fiction Competition: Submit 300-word fiction. Prizes are £300, £200 and £100. Entry fee, £10, £8 for a second, £6 for a third. •

Knitscene

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1. THE CURSE OF THE BOYFRIEND SWEATER: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is an important read celebrating our mutual love for craft. Alanna Okun is hilarious (we’ve never been so excited to read footnotes) and relat

Writer's Digest

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Ernest Hemingway’s writing advice gave strength to me to write. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Sayeed Anwar You have to work your writing muscles just like any other muscle in your body if you want them to get stronger and more

Writing Magazine

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The Moth Short Story Prize 2021 is inviting new fiction entries. There is a €3,000 first prize in the annual contest for stories up to 5,000 words. The Moth Short Story Prize is run the The Moth magazine in Ireland and is for original, unpublished sh

Writing Magazine

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The 2021 Northern Writers Awards from New Writing North are open for entries from writers based in the North of England. The Awards are given to support work in progress by new, emerging and established writers, enabling them to develop work towards

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Writing Magazine

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Sarah Hall has become the BBC National Short Story Award’s first double winner. Announced live on BBC’s Front Row on 6 October, Sarah won the £15,000 award for her story The Grotesques. In 2013 she won it for Mrs Fox, and was shortlisted in 2010 and

Writing Magazine

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Deep Overstock began simply as a journal to support booksellers who dreamed of writing. The editorial team, booksellers themselves, wanted to help their fellow frustrated writers. From this beginning grew the small press which now issues a quarterly

St. Louis Magazine

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In their debut poetry collection, Paul Tran is unbound by form or inhibition. The 28 poems of All the Flowers Kneeling, out February 8, communicate trauma, violence, lost homes, and lost selves with a tenderness and understanding that softens the rou

Writing Magazine

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Writing East Midlands invite entries of new fiction and poetry for their national writing contest, the Aurora Prize for Writing 2021. Winners in each category will receive £500, feedback on their work from a leading literary agent or editor, a year’s

Popshot Magazine

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6 – Lydia Ruffles is the author of The Taste of Blue Light (Hodder, 2017). Her second novel, Colour Me In (Hodder Children’s Books), is out on 9 August. 12 – Helen Rear is an English Literature and Creative Writing student at Bangor University. She i

Writing Magazine

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Win a £2,000 first prize in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2022 from Coffee House Poetry, for unpublished poems up to 45 lines. The winner will receive £2,000. The second prize is £1,000 and the third prize, £500. Twenty further poets will

Literary Hub

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Click below to watch the virtual meeting of the Alta California Book Club, which Books Editor of Alta Journal David Ulin describes as: an opportunity for us to rethink the book club as a kind of ongoing process involving events, involving posts and i

New Zealand Listener

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This choice is as much about where I was in the world when I discovered In My Father’s Den (1972) as it is about the book itself. It was 1987. I’d been in London long enough to have reimagined New Zealand as a bucolic utopia and then be bored by the

After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy

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Neil James Hudson is a UK-based writer who has published around sixty stories in zines such as On The Premises and Mad Scientist Journal, as well as anthologies for TDotSpec and Third Flatiron. His paranormal romance novel On Wings of Pity is availab

Writing Magazine

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The prize in the Coast to Coast to Coast Individual Poet Journal competition is fifteen copies of the winning journal in hand-stitched covers. Enter twel pages of poetry with a title. The entry fee is £11. The closing date is 30 April. Website: www.m

Literary Hub

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The Hay Festival, now in its 21st year, brings writers and readers together in a free digital space of thoughtful conversation, storytelling, comedy, and family fun. This year, the Festival has been streamed live with a star-studded line-up of speake

Writing Magazine

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The Dread Machine is a great noisy community with a blog and podcast, ‘where horror and SF writers, poets, and enthusiasts can share, rate, and discuss dreadfully rad fiction and poetry.’ The team like to ‘make cool creative projects accessible to th

Who Do You Think You Are?

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One of the most difficult contributors to pin down was partially identified before the project even began. “R” was ubiquitous in the Lady’s Magazine between the 1770s and 1780s. She translated dozens of French short stories and oriental tales for the

Writing Magazine

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The theme of this year’s British Czech and Slovak Association Writing Competition is Freedom. Entries must be on the links between Britain and the lands now comprising the Czech and Slovak Republics or society in the Republics since 1989. The theme c

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She lives in Los Angeles and is a poet and writer. As @sosadtoday, she has a huge Twitter following that includes several celebrities. Rolling Stone magazine named her one of its 50 Funniest People. This is Melissa’s second novel. This novel was in

Writing Magazine

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Prizes are £500, £250 and £100 in the fifteenth year of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, for original, unpublished poems on any subject and in any style. Winners, runners up and commended entries will be published in an anthology. This yea

BBC Sky at Night

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“Astronomy has inspired writers, poets and thinkers for centuries. It’s been fascinating looking into Great Conjunctions in literature ahead of this month’s spectacle.” Jane traces the literary mentions of Great Conjunctions, page 25 “I’m looking for

Writing Magazine

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Lorelei Goulding has won the £1,500 prize for her first-ever writing competition entry in Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2020. Lorelei’s winning piece of life-writing, Birdie, is her first competition entry and first piece of published work. It