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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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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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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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 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

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

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. •

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 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

Poets & Writers

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NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION National Book Awards AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize GAUDY BOY PRESS Poetry Book Prize  LOST HORSE PRESS  Idaho Prize for Poetry  PITTSBURG

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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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

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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Pigeon Pages calls itself ‘a literary space where emerging and established writers from all backgrounds are encouraged to nest together’. The editorial team ‘seek to champion voices that are not always allowed to sing loudly’, and want ‘writing… from

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Writer

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March 3-7 After proceeding with a controversial in-person conference last March, AWP vowed to go entirely online for the 2021 gathering, offering discounted registration rates for all attendees. If you’ve always wanted to experience the largest writi

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

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 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.