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 The international competition is for original, unpublished short stories in any style and on any subject by any writer, published or unpublished. All entries must be original and unpublished, an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

Poets & Writers

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Alice James Books No name in the city of undoingI lengthen beyond what I know —from “self/hood” HOW IT BEGAN: The poems in Inheritance were formed while I walked around D.C. or had conversations with friends and lovers, or as a response to a theoreti

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 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

The Millions

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As someone who’s been at this books thing “professionally” for a while, I confess I really, really need books to prove to me why they need to exist. The post A Year in Reading: Sonya Chung appeared first on The Millions.

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

The Paris Review

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In our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets—Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz—take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Sarah Kay is on the line. ©Ellis Rosen Dearest Poets,

Writing Magazine

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Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition 2020 is open for entries. There is a £500 first prize in the competition for spiritual or broadly religious poems Enter original, unpublished poems up to forty lines. The first prize is £500, and there are seco

Homes & Antiques

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For two years this was the home of a prolific 19th-century Romantic poet. Today, it’s a museum. The darling of English literature is said to have penned one of his odes beneath a plum tree in the garden. He fell in love with the girl next door and be

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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Segora International Writing Competitions 2021 has categories for poetry, short stories, vignettes and one-act plays. The annual creative writing contest is run by Poetry Prose and Plays. • Poetry: Enter original, unpublished poems up to 50 lines. Th

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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Fosseway Writers are inviting entries on the theme of ‘Promise’ for their poetry competition. The judge is Martin Grey and the prizes are £50, £30 and £20, with a special £10 prize for the best local poet. Enter poems up to 40 lines. The entry is £5

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

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

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

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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For tens of thousands of years, human beings have been using fictional devices to shape their worlds and communicate with one another. Four thousand years ago they began writing down these stories, and a great flourishing of human achievement began.

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

Da Man

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Get some in-depth insight into the punk subculture through the magnificently-written “A Field Guide To Punk” by Steve Wide. Here, author and DJ Steve Wide explains the social climate of Thatcherism and presents a complete and detailed timeline of fou

Writing Magazine

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[PANK] 2020 Competitions are inviting entries of full-length and chapbook-length manuscripts. • The Big Book Contest is for full-length manuscripts. A winner in each of the poetry and fiction categories will receive a publishing contract, $1,000, a $

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

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

New Zealand Listener

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The poet teaches creative writing at Massey University, Auckland. Her third collection is FELT (Massey University Press, $24.99). I didn’t like sixth form French. But I did love the set text: LE SILENCE DE LA MER, by Jean Bruller under the pseudonym