Literary Hub

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Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of CrimeReads, a new website showcasing the best writing from the worlds of crime, mystery, and thrillers.  Readers ask questions, lots of them. Every time we turn a page, there’s a kind of interrogation hap

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

Writer's Digest

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Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference (MCWC) Offering a mixed-genre emerging writers’ workshop for those who are attending a conference for the first time as well as seminars on publishing for seasoned writers ready to publish their manuscript, MCWC ha

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 2021 / PUB FROGWARES DEV FROGWARES / PLAYERS TBC Young Sherlock is 21 and taking in the sun and sights of the Mediterranean-inspired island of Cordona. Not one to avoid tragedy, soon the great detective is embroiled in solving

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

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

Watch

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

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.

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

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.

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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Welcome back to the Books Briefing. This week’s edition focuses on characters who spend their time taking care of other people—a role that sometimes renders their own needs invisible. In the novels below, the sometimes beautiful, sometimes fraught dy

Writing Magazine

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Edited by Roban Bandojo, Pressfuls is a digital magazine which each issue publishes eight short stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror and crime/mystery. Issues are published each January, May and September, but the title is always

The Writer

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A MAILMAN TASKED WITH DELIVERing a potentially life-saving secret formula to a Des Moines epidemiologist finds his life threatened by people determined to steal the information for themselves. A woman befriends the daughter of a homicide victim after

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

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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US children’s publisher Charlesbridge and its partner TERC has a call out for picture book submissions for the Storytelling Math series, which celebrates BIPOC children using mathematics in their daily adventures as they play, build and discover the

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

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

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

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

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

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

Woman's Weekly

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This powerful story explores the dangerous journey taken by people trying to cross illegally from Mexico to the US. A mother and son flee their home after a cartel massacre, becoming migrants on the run. Their journey is as emotional and harrowing as

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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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

Writing Magazine

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‘I’ve always loved the theatre and Victorian-set fiction, so the moment Lianne’s novel came into my inbox on submission I dropped everything to read it. We ended up signing Theatre of Marvels to the Hutchinson Heinemann list 24 hours later. Zillah is

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