Poets & Writers

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THE WRITERS I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING WITH these days have one thing in common: They are all incredibly busy. I believe the most precious gift one could offer a creative person is time: unscheduled, unencumbered, unhurried time. But when I hear

Woman & Home

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In Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, dramatic events mark the relationship between governess Jane and gruff Edward Rochester. They do marry, but only after facing a series of challenges that include a hidden wife locked in an attic, a devastating fire i

The Christian Science Monitor

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Shared reading memories I was enchanted by Robert Klose’s Sept. 4 Home Forum essay, “How I became a reader of books.” It brought back memories of my more than threescore years of reading, even as a small child. Having experienced the pleasure of boo

The Paris Review

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After months of germination, our Spring issue is out today! Shrug off the winter doldrums with the bright splashes of color on our cover, painted by the Lebanese artist Etel Adnan especially for the issue. Look between the covers for a portfolio of h

Writer's Digest

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The best beginnings toss readers into the whirlwind that is going to be your story right as the action begins, giving them no choice but to read further. The best endings stick with readers for years after they’ve closed the book. WD editors got toge

Woman & Home

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I first read this when I was nine and it terrified me. We’d just moved into a Victorian house, where my bedroom was in the attic. I was convinced Bertha Mason lived in the box room and would set fire to me each night. The ‘mad woman in the attic’ is

The Millions

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Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit

Poets & Writers

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As the founding editor of the Cincinnati Review, Nicola Mason has a strong track record of spotting talented writers early in their careers. Under her leadership the review published the early work of fiction writers Caitlin Horrocks and Jamie Quatro

Woman

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by Polly Crosby (£12.99, HarperCollins, HB) Romilly’s eccentric father is struggling with early-onset dementia. On finding fame with a series of children’s books starring his daughter, readers become convinced that his beautiful illustrations contain

Writing Magazine

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The theme for this year’s Elmbridge Literary Competition 2020/21 is ‘music’ The winning entries will be published as a chapbook by publishers Sampson Low, who are running the competition in partnership with the RC Sherriff Trust. The competition invi

Poets & Writers

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THE WRITERS I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING WITH these days have one thing in common: They are all incredibly busy. I believe the most precious gift one could offer a creative person is time: unscheduled, unencumbered, unhurried time. But when I hear

Literary Hub

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Philip Kerr’s 12th Bernie Gunther novel, Prussian Blue, is available now. What was the first book you fell in love with? First book I fell in love with was probably Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Name a classic you feel guilty about nev

Writing Magazine

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The Hysteria Writing Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is run by Linda Parkinson Hardman, supported the work of her social enterprise The Hysterectomy Association until that closed in 2019. It’s now run from Linda’s blog. T

Writing Magazine

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Creative Mind Horwich is inviting entries for two nature writing competitions. • Nature and Nurture is for short stories up to 1,500 words and poems up to forty lines on the ‘nature and nurture’ theme. There are prizes of £50, £30 and £20 in each cat

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

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

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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As I write this, more than 250 million people have been ordered to stay at home in attempt to slow the coronavirus pandemic. For many of those those lucky enough to be simply quarantined and not sick (or caring for anyone who is), the days have been

New American Paintings

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St. Louis, MO albertyowshien@gmail.com / www.albertyowshien.com / @yowshien 2019 Safety Last!, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO Too Good To Be True, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2018 A Demonstration from Fifty Percent, Putnam Center for the Arts, Jacksonville,

Literary Hub

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One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—not repackaged nor redesigned, not yet Made into a Major Mot

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 16 announcement of the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award winners, NBCC board members review the 30 finalists. Today, NBCC board member Jane Ciabattari offers an appreciation of fiction f

Literary Hub

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Modern multiracial London, a Caribbean colonial sugar plantation, an undefined afterlife, pre-WWII England, and a dystopian United States—this month’s overlooked fiction will transport you whether you like it, or not. Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and F

Literary Hub

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Book publishing can be a tricky—and fickle—thing. Some of the classics we know and love today were instant bestsellers when they were originally published—and some were huge flops. While the numbers a book puts up during its first year in the world a

Sunday Tribune

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TODAY is the last of the monthly book fair for the year, with authors from around the country launching and promoting their books. The book fair, now in its third year, is a volunteer programme to support Durban as a Unesco World City of Literature.

Writing Magazine

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North Yorkshire based Ripon Writers’ Group meets on alternate Tuesday evenings throughout the year at the Old Deanery, just across the road from Ripon Cathedral, to share our work and offer feedback, writes Maggie Cobbett. Published or as yet unpubli

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

North & South

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On 23 August, young poets, poetry royalty, performance poets, rappers and “slammers” will be taking over your town – hoping to beat last year’s Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day record of 150 events across 60 locations nationwide. Check nzbook

Literary Hub

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Click below to watch the first 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