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

Writing Magazine

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The winner of Joffe Books Prize for Crime Writers of Colour will be offered a two-book contract with Joffe Books. In conjunction with bestselling author Dorothy Koomson and literary agent Susan Yearwood, Joffe Books is looking for manuscripts from un

Poets & Writers

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CERTAIN BOOKS, IF WE ARE LUCKY TO ENCOUNTER THEM at just the right moment, exert a kind of emotional-intellectual-gravitational force on us. Time slows down; the mind opens up. Maybe this is what we mean when we say a work of art “speaks” to us. I wa

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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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 The biennial DRF Award from the Deborah Rogers Foundation supports a previously unpublished prose auth

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

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

NPR

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Safia Elhillo's novel follows a first-generation Muslim American girl who, bullied at school, longs for the homeland she's never really known and the alter ego who represents a more confident self.

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

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 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

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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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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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

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

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 700 pages | Paperback/ebook Author Thilde Kold Holdt Publisher Rebellion This is, in many ways, a classic genre fantasy. There are several characters, mostly very young, several with touches of non-human ancestry, whose points of vi

Writing Magazine

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The Ampersand Agency represents authors of contemporary and historical novels, literary, crime, thriller, fantasy, science fiction, non fiction, current affairs, history, biography and popular science titles in addition to authors of books for childr

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

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 ■

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.

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

Woman's Day

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“An experimental novel. Beautiful, spare writing.” “One of the best collections of short fiction I’ve read. I am a big Andrew Roff fan.” “Very quirky. Hilarious.” “Debut novel. Deeply moving account of being a carer.” “Debut short story collectio

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