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

Writing Magazine

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The Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize invites poems on the theme of ‘Expectations’. The international competition is for original, unpublished poems, up to 40 lines. The winner will receive €500 and their poem will be published in Anthology Magazine. T

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

New Zealand Listener

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The latest novel by the former GP turned short-story writer and novelist, ADDRESSED TO GRETA (Bateman, $34.99), is released on November 6. The books below stretch effortlessly beyond the page to explore aspects of the human condition in a unique, unf

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

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

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kerrie McCallum EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Samantha Jones DIGITAL DIRECTOR John Hannan CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hayley Incoll EDITORIAL Deputy Editor Krysia Bonkowski Senior Subeditor/Copywriter Corinne Parkes Travel Editor Rosemary Slade Editorial

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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Anthology Poetry Award 2022 is inviting entries of original, unpublished poems on the theme of ‘Dreams’, up to forty lines. The winner will receive €500 and have their work published in Anthology magazine, plus a year’s subscription. The entry fee is

Writing Magazine

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Salt, the distinguished UK independent publisher of contemporary writing, is opening a submission window in November. Salt publishes fiction, narrative non-fiction and poetry, and has had some outstanding successes, particularly in recent years with

Writing Magazine

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Prizes are £1,000, £500 and £250 in the Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition 2021, for original, unpublished poems up to forty lines, any style, any subject. The entry fee is £5.75, £3.50 each additional. There are also categories for young poets, wit

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

Writing Magazine

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Ware Open Poetry Competition 2022 has £600, £300 and £150 prizes for original, unpublished poems on any theme, up to 50 lines. There is also the Ware Sonnet Prize of £150 for the best sonnet submitted. This year’s judge is Jonathan Edwards. The entry

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

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

Writing Magazine

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The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry competition is for poems in any style up to 50 lines and has prizes of 250, £125 and £75. The entry fee is £5 per poem. The closing date for this quarter’s contest is 31 July. Website: https://sentinelquarterly.

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

Literary Hub

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This is Joining Conversation, The Virtual Book Channel’s special event roundtable. Today’s conversation involves a small, diverse and wonderfully smart group of contemporary Native American writers. There’s thriller writer David Heska Wanbli Weiden,

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

Literary Hub

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Poets Tommy Pico, Karla Brundage, Nazelah Jamison, Danielle Lisa Bero and Preeti Vangani read poems about their experiences in the pandemic during Shuffle Collective’s 2020 Weekend of Words Literary Festival. * Tommy Pico is an award-winning indigen