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 The international competition is for original, unpublished short stories in any style and on any subject by any writer, published or unpublished. All entries must be original and unpublished, an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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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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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 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 The international competition is for original, unpublished poems, up to 40 lines.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

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

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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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

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 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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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

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

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

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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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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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

Popshot Magazine

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8 – Jamil Jan Kochai is a novelist published by Bloomsbury. He was born in Pakistan and grew up in America. He is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 10 – Brenda Dzangare is an urban fantasy fiction writer, author of the Calah Crown

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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Writer Shed Press want fiction, personal essays or poetry, with a prose word limit of 2,500 words for their second anthology, themed Love and Sacrifice, by 1 July. Submit in the body of an email: writershedpress@gmail.com Include a brief bio – under

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

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

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,

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

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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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

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

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

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