India Today

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The creeping devastation of a beautiful land is a story that resonates everywhere in India. Sudeep Chakravarti's novel is set in Goa, but its rapacious developers, mournful lookers-back, see-no-evil bystanders and raging activists might be from anywh

SFX

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RELEASED 12 SEPTEMBER 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Alix E Harrow Publisher Orbit Books Sometimes, all it takes is one sentence. In the case of Alix Harrow’s debut, it’s this: “In the fall of 1903 I was nine, and the world was tasting t

The Writer

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Since 1976, the literary magazine Lilith has published poetry and prose with the goals of amplifying Jewish women’s voices and empowering Jewish girls and women in their lives and in their communities. Editor-in-Chief Susan Weidman Schneider is of th

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

The Atlantic

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The ecological stories in The Relive Box are tiny, satirical tragicomedies about individual people.

The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

SFX

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Neal Shusterman’s latest, GAME CHANGER (out now, Walker) centres on a teenage American football player, who’s… oh right, you’ve lost interest before I mention how he bounces into parallel worlds, right? Fair enough. Hannah Mathewson’s debut WITHERWAR

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

WHO

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Hilderbrand’s latest novel is perfect for cosy weekend reading. This time she focuses on former lovers who now lead separate lives but share an island idyll once a year. Captivating and bittersweet. (Available Jul. 23) Inseparable twins Stella and

The Atlantic

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Nicolai Houm’s third novel unspools the mystery of a writer who abandons fiction and winds up alone on the top of a mountain in Norway.

Psychologies

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Adelightful,discombobulating read from the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It’s set in a dreamlike house inhabited by the singular and self-sufficient Piranesi, who is not sure how he got there or who he is. Attempting to unravel his story

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 442 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Rena Barron Publisher HarperVoyager There’s something comforting about epic fantasy. You know the broad strokes you’re likely to get: protagonist with a destiny, dark lord, invented land w

Writing Magazine

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One of the hottest genres in fiction this year, climate fiction explores our effect on the environment, sometimes with a sense of hope, sometimes with regret. The stance you take is up to you. Your story should be 1,500-1,700 words and the closing da

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

Writing Magazine

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London-based Anamot Press is looking for submissions for its first anthology on queer experiences across borders and other stories told with no shame. Submit original, unpublished poems (up to three) and essays and short stories up to 3,000 words. Se

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l

WHO

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From one of the UK’s best writers – William Boyd penned the 2002 best-seller Any Human Heart and 2018’s Love Is Blind – comes Trio, his 16th novel. It’s the captivating story of three people (a producer, a novelist and an actress) living secret lives

Writing Magazine

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The DRF Writers’ Award is inviting applications. The £10,000 Award for a new writer has been brought forward from 2022 to 2021 because of lockdown. The biennial DRF Award from the Deborah Rogers Foundation supports a previously unpublished prose auth

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She used to be a lawyer but was always writing stories in her spare time, and published her first book almost 20 years ago. She lives in Auckland and is a prolific writer of paranormal romance, sci-fi a

Writing Magazine

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Interpret the ‘school’ theme, widely, in any kind of writing, this month. Fiction or nonfiction are both fine, as are settings in any era or genre. £250 TO BE WON SEE P63 FOR ENTRY DETAILS, FULL RULES AND ENTRY FORMS Your story should be 1,500-1,700

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

Writing Magazine

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Curious Curls Publishing is a new ‘literary micropress’ based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seeking ‘a new wave of literature from fascinating authors around the world’. The editors believe that ‘Curiosity is not just an image – it’s a way of life.’ T

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 368 pages | Paperback/ebook Author AJ Elwood Publisher Titan Books Say the word “fairy” and there are two possible images that arise: the beautiful flower folk, as pictured in famous hoax the Cottingley fairies, and also an older, d

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

Writing Magazine

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Win $500 for a 100-word book blurb in The QueryLetter.com Writing Contest. To enter, send a book blurb (up to 100 words) for a hypothetical novel, setting the stage, establishing the characters and raising the stakes so readers want to read on. One w

Literary Hub

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When Lesley Nneka Arimah sat down with her collection What It Means When A Man Falls From the Sky, she thought: “I hope that people read this and learn nothing.” She didn’t wish for her fiction to have an eat-your-vegetables vibe, she explained onsta