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

Poets & Writers

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The name Holy Cow! Press (holycowpress.org), complete with exclamation point, came to publisher Jim Perlman in a dream. Forty years ago that dream became an independent press, which today boasts a catalogue of more than 125 poetry collections, novels

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

Writing Magazine

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The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize 2021 is open for entries. Win a first prize of €1,500 and a writing residency in the international contest. The Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize is for original, unpublished short fiction up to 2,0

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

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

Writing Magazine

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Brilliant Corners must be one a very few magazines which devote their poetry, fiction and non-fiction to jazz and jazz-related literature. Lycoming College, in Pennsylvania, publish the magazine and it’s worth buying a back issue just to read and enj

Writer's Digest

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2020 SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE, February 13–16 at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. This "Celebration of Craft, Commerce and Community" is where writers come to meet major names in publishing. The presenters list includes Walter Mosley, Jonatha

Scootering

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It really is a strange old world we live in. If we go back in time only a few months I certainly couldn’t have predicted what has happened since then – and because I’m writing these words in advance, the situation may well have changed completely aga

Writing Magazine

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The W&A Working Class Writers’ Prize is open for entries. Lisa McInerney, this year’s judge, will mentor the winning writer for a year. Writers & Artists welcome submissions of unpublished work by writers who identify as working class who do not have

The Writer

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Dear Timely Fretting, Briefly: No. OK, fine; here’s why: First, literary magazines do not move fast enough to be timely in any real way. In other words, they’re not pegged to the news cycle the way that consumer magazines or newspapers are. Second, i

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 Writer

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How can we be more culturally sensitive in these challenging times? When is it OK to write about experiences that aren’t our own? These are two of the questions that international faculty members and attendees at the San Miguel Writers’ Conference &

The Millions

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One can hope that we might draw lessons from the Vietnam War’s legacy of near-erasure of non-white experiences; that the growth of veterans writing workshops and anthologies will represent to future generations a more complete picture of The Forever

Poets & Writers

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“I like to think that each chapbook is a journey,” says editor Shaun Levin of the immersive, imaginative volumes he publishes at the A3 Press (www.writingmaps.com/pages/the-a3-press-review). Founded in 2019 as an offshoot of the A3 Review and based i

Writing Magazine

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Yours Magazine editor Sharon Reid awards a £10 high street voucher for readers’ letters and memories, with a photo and labelled ‘Blast from the Pasr’. Send to: Meeting Place, Yours Magazine, Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Peterborough PE2 6

Writing Magazine

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In October 2017, a handful of Sussex-based writers began meeting for mutual support and encouragement, writes Danielle Sensier Chalk Circle Writers critiqued each other’s work, exchanged writing tips and with the help of talented guest authors, ran t

Writing Magazine

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Woman’s Weekly women’s magazine lifestyle director Geoffrey Palmer invites reader input. His remit includes recipes, craft makes, puzzles and books. Details: 161 Marsh Wall, London E14 9AP; tel: 020 3148 500; email: WomansWeekly PostBag ti-media.com;

Writing Magazine

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The annual Wells Festival of Literature creative writing competition is inviting entries in four categories. The Wells Festival of Literature competition categories are: • Open Poetry: Poems on any subject, no more than 35 lines. Prizes: 1st £1,000,

Harper's Bazaar Australia

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It’s easy to attribute the appeal of a short story to our ever-waning attention spans, or the lack of free time to consume anything longer than a couple of thousand words. But moral panic aside, there’s always been something joyous about the fleeting

Writer's Digest

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Give your writing the love it deserves at this long-running specialty conference where romance is king. WHEN: July 24–27, 2019. WHERE: New York Marriott Marquis, New York City. PRICE: $549 for RWA members, $624 for nonmembers through June 26; $649

Writing Magazine

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The Polari Prize book awards for LGBTQI+ writers is inviting submissions for the Polari Prize (£2,000) and the Polari First Book Prize for debut authors (£1,000). Books must have been published in the twelve months up to 1 February 2021. The closing

Literary Hub

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It’s very strange to take a full year off of doing something that you’ve been doing for over 15 years, knowing that you’ll return to it but are utterly detached from it in the meantime. For me, that is teaching literature at the college level. Going

Literary Hub

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In post 11/8 America, the citizenry became more aware, more active, more willing to submit themselves to self-examination. Yet while the world of journals both print (Freeman’s), and online (Guernica, Lit Hub, Electric Literature), have increased the

Writing Magazine

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Muswell Press is inviting submissions for an anthology of Queer writing, Queer Life, Queer Love. The Queer Life, Queer Love anthology will be dedicated to the memory of Lucy-Jack Reynolds, the trans daughter of Muswell Press publisher Sarah Beal. Luc

New Zealand Listener

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‘There is a black horse that rides through all my poems,” writes Elizabeth Morton in Tropes. Indeed there is. In her second collection, This is your real name, there is much melancholy, sorrow and loneliness. The opening poem, Untouch, suggests a sea

Literary Hub

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It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and ju

Writer's Digest

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Enjoy some Midwestern hospitality at this intimate conference known for its regional flair. WHEN: May 10–11, 2019. WHERE: Best Western Premier Waterfront Hotel & Convention Center, Oshkosh, Wis. PRICE: $75. Fee includes Saturday lunch. A special co

Writing Magazine

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Juno Dawson’s Proud, an anthology of stories and poetry by YA LGBTQ+ authors, was named Book of the Year at the Visionary Honours 2020, the UK’s first showbiz awards to celebrate diversity and inclusion in the arts, culture and entertainment industri

RC Car Action

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Save up to 64%On Print & Digital Versions! Order Now at: RCCarAction.com/subscribe Radio Control Car Action is published 12 times a year. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery of first issue. Cover price is $6.99. Canada add $21 per year (includes GST)