Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Back in the day, I used to subscribe to a teen magazine, and when it came I would hug it to my chest, run inside, and read it cover to cover. Now, as a grown-up writer, I do the same with Poets & Writers Magazine. The July/Augus

The Writer

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Publishing is often seen as a “mature” person’s game, so much so that writers who successfully claim a seat at the Big-Kids Table and achieve critical success before crossing particular age thresholds are lauded as rarities, prodigies who beat the od

Malaysia Tatler

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From law to literature: How did that transition unfold? I harboured dreams of being a published novelist, but being pragmatic, decided that getting a law degree was safer. I also blame Ally McBeal for glamorising a hard life. Despite the prestige o

The Atlantic

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The National Book Award–winning author writes complex teenage protagonists whose real-life counterparts have long faced literary erasure.

The Millions

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David Miller’s That Glimpse of Truth was a constant companion this year. It is a collection of 100 stories that Miller believes are amongst the finest ever written. While there are a number of writers whose work I wish Miller had included, each story

The Writer

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Two years ago, during the Writing Popular Fiction MFA winter residency at Seton Hill University, a discussion broke out amongst my students in a critique workshop geared toward young adult (YA) writers: They didn’t think YA novels were really written

TIME

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THE BOOKS WE READ WHEN WE’RE young have a special sort of power: they can inspire us to be brave and resilient (Matilda by Roald Dahl), take us on thrilling adventures (Divergent by Veronica Roth) and even introduce us to tragedy (The Bridge to Terab

Fast Company

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With clear language and bracing honesty, Jason Reynolds’s young-adult novels grapple with thorny issues (alcohol abuse, gun violence, police brutality) in contemporary urban settings.

Writer's Digest

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You’ve written the first draft of your book or book proposal. You’ve let it sit in the proverbial drawer and gotten countless trusted beta readers to review your work. They all say it’s ready. So what does the future hold for you? We’ve consulted 20

Writer's Digest

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Alice Hoffman specializes in magical writing that tells the realest of stories. She published her first novel in 1977 while still at Stanford University and has written more than 30 works of fiction since, including the novels The Marriage of Opposit

Writing Magazine

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Odd Voice Out is inviting entries for its Teens of Tomorrow creative writing competition. Odd Voice Out is an independent publisher of diverse YA and crossover stories. The Teens of Tomorrow competition is for futurefocused diverse teen fiction, and

Poets & Writers

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The name Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org), complete with exclamation point, came to publisher Jim Perlman in a dream. Forty years ago that dream became an independent press, which today boasts a catalogue of more than 125 poetry collections, novels

Writing Magazine

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Win $3,000 for the first chapter of a YA novel in the competition from YA literary journal Voyage in the 2020 Voyage First Chapters Competition The competition is international, and open to any writer. Submissions must be the first chapter of a YA no

India Today

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The great American novel is now a massive international hit YA [young adult] book with film rights and merchandising," an agent tells a struggling writer in the recent Netflix comedy series Friends From College. It's a disparaging statement, but a tr

NPR

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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life is as much a doorstopper as any young adult fantasy novel, but the world it builds is inside the head of teenaged Sal, who's struggling with difficult new emotions.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 464 pages | Hardback/ebook Author DK Fields Publisher Head Of Zeus This first novel from DK Fields (a pseudonym for David Towsey and Katherine Stansfield) is a much more unusual, intricate and clever novel than it first appears. At

Writing Magazine

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Due to a rapid growth resulting in a mountain of submissions After Dinner Conversation, a web based series of short stories, audio and video podcasts, had to put a temporary hold on submissions but they are now being considered. Check the website for

India Today

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Q The title of your upcoming novel, A Secret History of Compassion, has us intrigued. Can you tell us what's it about? A. It's the name of the essay that Lord Spider, a writer of popular fiction, and J.L. Pillai, executioner, aspiring writer and voye

Writing Magazine

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SUBSCRIBER-ONLY COMPETITIO WIN! £275 IN CASH PRIZES & PUBLICATION £150 TO BE WON With its closing date of 15 May, there’s still time to enter last month’s competition for poems on ‘Wordsworth’ themes. Writing for children and young adults requires a

Literary Hub

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Every work of art—every book, every film, every painting—is an unlikely achievement. We know this instinctively, of course. The vision one has for any piece at the outset can never be more than partially fulfilled, limited as we are by our talent, ou

Literary Hub

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First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi R

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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Win £1,000 and agent introduction in the the BPA First Novel Award 2021 for unpublished novelists To enter the annual competition from the Bluepencilagency, writers must be unpublished and unrepresented. The winner will receive £1,000 and the runner

The Saturday Evening Post

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“I was stunned,” says Gingerich on learning his story “Thornhope, Indiana” had won first place, publication in the Post, and a prize of $500. “It took a day or two to sink in. I’m still in a daze about it. Just completely gob-smacked.” “Thornhope, In

Popshot Magazine

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8 – Julie-Ann Rowell is a Bristol-based poetry teacher and mentor. Her first poetry pamphlet, Convergence, won a Poetry Book Society Award. Her latest collection, Voices in the Garden, was published by Lapwing Publications. 10 – Jessica Kashdan-Brown

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

The Atlantic

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This article is edited from a story shared exclusively with members of The Masthead, the membership program from The Atlantic (find out more). In part one, we explore why adults gravitate towards books written for children and teenagers. In part two,

India Today

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Q. How do you normally isolate yourself in order to write? By writing when people have stopped importuning me. Most of my writing is done either after 11 pm, or on planes. Q. As a writer/ reader, how are you dealing with this current period of self

The Writer

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Information in this section is provided to The Writer by the individual markets and events; for more information, contact those entities directly. F = Fiction N = Nonfiction P = Poetry C = Children’s Y = Young adult O = Other F N C Y 3 SEAS LITERARY

NPR

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The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.