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

The Paris Review

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An excerpt from Mirtha Dermisache’s Libro No. 1 (1972). No importa lo que pasa en la hoja de papel, lo importante es lo que pasa dentro nuestro. (“It’s not important what happens on a sheet of paper, the important thing is what happens within us.”) —

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 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 The international competition is for original, unpublished poems, up to 40 lines.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

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

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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Alexander Selkirk and the fictional Robinson Crusoe both suffered from loneliness and fear before learning to live comfortably on their islands. Both kept cats and goats, dressed in goatskins, hid in trees, feared the arrival of hostile strangers, an

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,

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 Atlantic

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Daniel Defoe’s novel about London's 1665 plague can help us understand new media. No, really.

Cricket Magazine Fiction and Non-Fiction Stories for Children and Young Teens

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ALEXANDER SELKIRK RACED after the wild goat as it bounded ahead of him up a steep slope. His calloused feet hardly felt the rocky ground. The Scottish sailor grinned, remembering when he’d been too slow to catch a healthy goat. The desperate animal s

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

delicious

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kerrie McCallum EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Samantha Jones DIGITAL DIRECTOR John Hannan CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hayley Incoll EDITORIAL Deputy Editor Krysia Bonkowski Senior Subeditor/Copywriter Corinne Parkes Travel Editor Rosemary Slade Editorial

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

The Millions

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Islands are almost always the geographic feature with which utopias are associated, for paradise is not paradise if it’s easily accessible. The post Island Time: On the Poetics of the Isle appeared first on The Millions.

Garden & Gun

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“The Southern writer is forced from all sides to make his gaze extend beyond the surface…,” Flannery O’Connor wrote, “until it touches that realm which is the concern of prophets and poets.” In his new book, A Place Like Mississippi (Timber Press), W

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

Popshot Magazine

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6 – Lydia Ruffles is the author of The Taste of Blue Light (Hodder, 2017). Her second novel, Colour Me In (Hodder Children’s Books), is out on 9 August. 12 – Helen Rear is an English Literature and Creative Writing student at Bangor University. She 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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Prizes are £1,000, £500 and £250 in the Ledbury Festival Poetry Competition 2021, for original, unpublished poems up to forty lines, any style, any subject. The entry fee is £5.75, £3.50 each additional. There are also categories for young poets, wit

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

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.

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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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

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

MEGA

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Group Creative Director JANN PASCUA Managing Editor TRINA EPILEPSIA BOUTAIN Fashion Director / MEGA Style Editor JEB FRONDA Fashion Editor LYN ALUMNO Beauty and Features Writer MIA CASTRO Editor SUKI SALVADOR Editor G3 SAN DIEGO Group Art Dire

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

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