VOGUE India

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In this work, the globetrotting journalist and travel writer muses on mortality, following a death in the family, as well as on Japan, his adoptive home country of 25 years. As the seasons shift, the book offers lessons on a culture, from the mundane

Writing Magazine

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‘When I set about becoming a novelist, for seven years I wrote unpublishable twaddle that has me cringing to think of it now. ‘There are two things I dearly wish I’d known. ‘The first is that most good novels are fiction, not disguised autobiography.

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

Writing Magazine

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The Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is inviting entries. The competition is for original, unpublished historical fiction in any genre, up to 3,500 words. All stories must be set at least 35 years in the past. T

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Kevin Larimer’s “Maybe This Is Enough for Now” (July/August 2020), calmed the ruthless self-critic who kept nagging me for not using quarantine time to write. After reading the Editor’s Note, I recalled the 2019 Kauai Writers Co

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

Scoop

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David is an Australian illustrator and storyboard artist. He creates award-winning science fiction adventure graphic novels for readers of all ages. www.scoopthemag.co.uk www.patreon.com/davidfollett INSTAGRAM: @davefollettdraws ■

The Australian Women's Weekly

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime t

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.

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime

Writing Magazine

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Meet debut literary scifiauthor Andrew Hunter Murray Aussie psychological thriller author CJ Sutton explains his writing routines Explore the style and technique of MC Beaton Genre-hopping megaseller Michelle Paver on her return to children’s books a

Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

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Beach Read by Emily Henry (Berkley) January Andrews and Augustus Everett couldn’t be more different. January is a bestselling romance author, and Augustus writes highbrow literary fiction. But when they both find themselves with writers’ block and li

Writing Magazine

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Did I mention that I have signed up for a two-book deal? Lucky me, right? The only problem is that now I’m tasked with delivering the next novel in two months’ time. No problem for a seasoned (jaded) writer like myself, surely? After all, I’ve churne

Writing Magazine

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I’m about to submit my novel to agents. I’m not sure how to categorise it, whether it’s literary or commercial or somewhere in-between. Could you tell me the difference? This is a time-old question, and one that invites a great deal of debate within

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

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

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

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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Win a £500 first prize for short fiction on the theme of ‘accessibility’ in the Perito Prize 2020. This is the second annual creative writing competition from inclusive environments consultancy Perito. To enter send original, unpublished short storie

New American Paintings

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St. Louis, MO albertyowshien@gmail.com / www.albertyowshien.com / @yowshien 2019 Safety Last!, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO Too Good To Be True, LVL3, Chicago, IL 2018 A Demonstration from Fifty Percent, Putnam Center for the Arts, Jacksonville,

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

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

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

Writing Magazine

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Literary independent Galley Beggar Press will open its submissions window for full-length manuscripts between 15 and 31 July. Galley Beggar Press publishes literary fiction for adult readers. Writers may submit novel manuscripts, short story collecti

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

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 Listener

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Whenever I want a laugh and a lesson on great fiction, I re-read Martin Amis’ best novel, The Information (Penguin). It’s about a 40-year-old writer who tries to wreck the life of a more successful writer friend. The prose is superb: Amis’ high style

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