Writing Magazine

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The theme for this year’s Elmbridge Literary Competition 2020/21 is ‘music’ The winning entries will be published as a chapbook by publishers Sampson Low, who are running the competition in partnership with the RC Sherriff Trust. The competition invi

Writing Magazine

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Children’s author Margaret Wild has been awarded a lifetime achievement award in the Australia Council Awards for the arts. The award ‘acknowledges the achievements of eminent literary writers over the age of sixty who have made an outstanding and li

Poets & Writers

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The J. Michael Samuel Prize will be given annually to LGBTQ writers over the age of fifty who are working in any genre but have not published a book or have a book under contract (up to one self-published book is acceptable). Application materials in

Writing Magazine

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The Nature Chronicles Prize is a new, biennial, international prize for essay-length, non-fiction contemporary nature writing that responds to the world we live in and if necessary, challenges established notions of nature writing. The prize is a mem

Writing Magazine

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Untreed Reads is a digital-only small press founded by Jay A Hartman in 2008 as a way to promote ebooks, with an emphasis on independent authors and publishers. Spend time at the website, novel submissions are limited to certain genres or authors but

The Atlantic

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What is a book? Is it simply the text we read, whether on bound pages or on a screen? Or is it a tangible object, something held with human hands and made richer by the way we physically interact with it? These are questions that Atlantic writers hav

Writing Magazine

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Scottish Book Trust is inviting applications for the 2022 New Writers Awards. During the awards, which run from January 2022 to January 2023, awardees receive a £2,000 bursary, tailored personal development opportunities, PR and presentation training

Writing Magazine

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The Creative Future Writers’ Award 2021 is inviting entries. This year’s contest for underrepresented writers has the theme of Essential. The Creative Future Writers’ Award is for UK writers who find it difficult to access the literary world because

The Writer

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In 1887, The Writer was founded in Boston to instruct, inspire, and encourage working writers. In 2022, it’s returning to its roots by hosting a live event in the historic city in which it was born. On September 17, 2022, 200 attendees will gather at

Writing Magazine

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Bottlecap Press calls itself ‘a millennial publishing outfit dedicated to authors’ rights and fair pay, on a constant journey to explore the infinite possibilities of literary multimedia.’ The editorial team aim to ‘showcase the best in artistic tale

Writing Magazine

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Better Than Starbucks started life as an international poetry journal, a monthly magazine which also produced a print edition as well as digital e-book versions. This year the journal became a quarterly, publishing on the first of each of February, M

Writing Magazine

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Two Plum Press is a unique US niche press producing ‘slim volumes of literary works both contemporary and classic’. Titles published ‘include works of poetry, essays, fiction, philosophy, visual art, travel and food writing.’ The editorial team at th

The Paris Review

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Every week, the editors of The Paris Review lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine’s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by signing up for the Re

Country Life

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• Bell’s famous ‘Rural Trilogy’ comprises Corduroy, Silver Ley and The Cherry Tree • In 1930, he compiled the first crossword published in Britain for The Times • As part of East Anglia’s Literary and Cultural tour, a blue plaque will soon mark the h

Knitscene

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1. THE CURSE OF THE BOYFRIEND SWEATER: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is an important read celebrating our mutual love for craft. Alanna Okun is hilarious (we’ve never been so excited to read footnotes) and relat

Writing Magazine

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Hawkshaw Press is ‘a literary small press specialising in crime and detective fiction.’ Devil’s Party Press is their partner ‘publisher of second acts’. Hawkshaw Press is currently open to subs and the editorial team seek submissions of novel-length

Writing Magazine

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The prestigious Yeovil Literary Prize 2021 is inviting entries in four different categories. Literary agents and publishers regularly check out the winners of the prestigious annual Yeovil Literary Prize, and many entrants have gone on to achieve pub

Writing Magazine

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Tina Jackson Yay for Yeovil Entries are welcomed for the Yeovil Literary Prize 2022. This year the prestigious annual prize features a new category for writers for children and young adults. For 2022, the Yeovil Literary Prize is inviting entries in

Writing Magazine

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The mission of BkMk Press is ‘to discover, publish and promote the best and most exciting literary writing, wherever it might be found’. It publishes literary books and a well respected magazine. Novel submissions are open until 30 June. Send a fifty

Writing Magazine

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The Booth editorial team publishes ‘four titles of original literature on the first Friday of every month’ and ‘two print issues yearly, usually in summer and winter’ Booth is published by the staff, students, faculty, and alumni from the Butler Univ

Writing Magazine

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Enter writing on the theme of ‘Enigma’ for the Elmbridge Literary Competition, which has categories for poem and short story. In the adult categories, there are prizes of £250, £150 and £100 for the winners, and there is an Elmbridge Award of a £50 b

The American Poetry Review

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Thursday, February 14, 7 p.m., Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall Jacob Saenz was born in Chicago and raised in Cicero, Illinois. His first book of poetry, Throwing the Crown, won the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. His poems have app

Writing Magazine

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The Young Walter Scott Prize is for stories by writers aged 11-19, set in a time before they were born. Stories should be between 800 and 2,000 words, and may take any form, ie prose, poetry, drama, fictional diaries, letters or reportage. Winners in

Writing Magazine

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Applications are open for the Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Awards are inviting applications. Five RSL writers will mentor five British writers of colour at the beginning of their careers. Emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetr

Writing Magazine

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Prizes are £500, £250 and £100 in the fifteenth year of the International Welsh Poetry Competition, for original, unpublished poems on any subject and in any style. Winners, runners up and commended entries will be published in an anthology. This yea

Writing Magazine

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A new free to download A4 pdf magazine which folds to double as a bookmark, Type! has short stories and poetry, writing prompts and a literary quiz, ‘bold new writing curated by curious creatives’. Submit original short stories, flash fiction or poet

Global Voices

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Not in Croatia? The Croatia Reads app also offers people outside the country Croatian books free of charge.

Writing Magazine

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The George Floyd Short Story Writing Competition II is inviting entries on the theme of ‘Earth 2.0’. The competition was launched by Nottingham Writers’ Studio in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. The best 27 stories were chosen for the antholog

Writing Magazine

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Literary magazine The Wild Hunt is celebrating its fifth year with its first short story competition. The Wild Hunt is an online literary magazine that celebrates the weird, surreal, other and imaginary worlds. There are first and second prizes of £2

Writing Magazine

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Salamander is a journal for poetry, fiction and memoirs. The editorial team like to combine ‘the best new work by writers now reaching artistic maturity with exciting new work by established writers’ and love ‘literary works of transformative power’.