Homes & Antiques

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For two years this was the home of a prolific 19th-century Romantic poet. Today, it’s a museum. The darling of English literature is said to have penned one of his odes beneath a plum tree in the garden. He fell in love with the girl next door and be

Writing Magazine

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Lume Books is an independent publisher based in London, seeking to publish stories that illuminate new thoughts and ideas. Their name reflects the brightness they try to bring to the publishing world (Lume is Latin for light), being symbolic of chang

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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Deep Overstock began simply as a journal to support booksellers who dreamed of writing. The editorial team, booksellers themselves, wanted to help their fellow frustrated writers. From this beginning grew the small press which now issues a quarterly

The Paris Review

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After months of germination, our Spring issue is out today! Shrug off the winter doldrums with the bright splashes of color on our cover, painted by the Lebanese artist Etel Adnan especially for the issue. Look between the covers for a portfolio of h

Poets & Writers

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Feedback from readers Back in the day, I used to subscribe to a teen magazine, and when it came I would hug it to my chest, run inside, and read it cover to cover. Now, as a grown-up writer, I do the same with Poets & Writers Magazine. The July/Augus

Poets & Writers

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As the founding editor of the Cincinnati Review, Nicola Mason has a strong track record of spotting talented writers early in their careers. Under her leadership the review published the early work of fiction writers Caitlin Horrocks and Jamie Quatro

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

NPR

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The novelists, poets and playwrights won Wednesday partly for their work so far, but also for the promise they've shown. If previous winners are an indication, it's a promise they're likely to keep.

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 Bristol Short Story Prize 2020 is open for entries. The international competition is for original, unpublished short stories in any style and on any subject by any writer, published or unpublished. All entries must be original and unpublished, an

Writing Magazine

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Win £1,000 and agent introduction in the the BPA First Novel Award 2021 for unpublished novelists To enter the annual competition from the Bluepencilagency, writers must be unpublished and unrepresented. The winner will receive £1,000 and the runner

Writing Magazine

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The Hysteria Writing Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is run by Linda Parkinson Hardman, supported the work of her social enterprise The Hysterectomy Association until that closed in 2019. It’s now run from Linda’s blog. 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

Popshot Magazine

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8 – Julie-Ann Rowell is a Bristol-based poetry teacher and mentor. Her first poetry pamphlet, Convergence, won a Poetry Book Society Award. Her latest collection, Voices in the Garden, was published by Lapwing Publications. 10 – Jessica Kashdan-Brown

Literary Hub

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Every work of art—every book, every film, every painting—is an unlikely achievement. We know this instinctively, of course. The vision one has for any piece at the outset can never be more than partially fulfilled, limited as we are by our talent, ou

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

Writing Magazine

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Lorelei Goulding has won the £1,500 prize for her first-ever writing competition entry in Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize 2020. Lorelei’s winning piece of life-writing, Birdie, is her first competition entry and first piece of published work. It

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She lives in Los Angeles and is a poet and writer. As @sosadtoday, she has a huge Twitter following that includes several celebrities. Rolling Stone magazine named her one of its 50 Funniest People. This is Melissa’s second novel. This novel was in

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,

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

Popshot Magazine

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8 – Jamil Jan Kochai is a novelist published by Bloomsbury. He was born in Pakistan and grew up in America. He is a Truman Capote Fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 10 – Brenda Dzangare is an urban fantasy fiction writer, author of the Calah Crown

Who Do You Think You Are?

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One of the most difficult contributors to pin down was partially identified before the project even began. “R” was ubiquitous in the Lady’s Magazine between the 1770s and 1780s. She translated dozens of French short stories and oriental tales for the

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

New Zealand Listener

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Imagine getting an English degree without ever reading a book. That’s the first feat of many that Tom Flannery, the hero of Patrick Evans’ fifth novel, Bluff world, achieves thanks to his self-professed gift: “I was full of shit and I knew it.” We fi

Writer's Digest

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Enjoy a full day of intense instruction at this “How to Get Published” writing event sponsored by Writing Day Workshops in Culver City. WHEN: May 2, 2020. WHERE: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Los Angeles, Westside, Culver City, Calif. PRICE: $189 regi

Literary Hub

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Click below to watch the first virtual meeting of the Alta California Book Club, which Books Editor of Alta Journal David Ulin describes as: an opportunity for us to rethink the book club as a kind of ongoing process involving events, involving posts

Writing Magazine

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Australia’s biggest book prize, the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature, has been won by Laura Jean McKay for her debut novel, The Animals in That Country. The novel, which McKay began writing seven years ago, is set during a global pandemic, tho

The Saturday Evening Post

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“I was stunned,” says Gingerich on learning his story “Thornhope, Indiana” had won first place, publication in the Post, and a prize of $500. “It took a day or two to sink in. I’m still in a daze about it. Just completely gob-smacked.” “Thornhope, In

Writing Magazine

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A biannual literary magazine featuring stories and poetry from up and coming writers Shooter is now open to submissions for its Winter 2021 issue after a one issue hiatus of its summer issue. The theme had not been decided at the time of writing so c