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    Spread Your Wings
    To me 2025 sounds like something lifted from the pages of science-fiction, but here we are in January of a fresh year. If you’re anything like me, you’ll be taking some time here to reflect on what you did last year and, more importantly, what the ne
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    IN THE SPOTLIGHT: YOUR WRITING Who am I?
    ‘Who am I?’, the theme of the submission call in the December issue, made us certain of a couple of things: our readers are talented, and prolific, writers! Original thinkers too, with words at the heart of their identity. Every month the submissions
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    Sarah Hornsley
    After graduating from Durham University with a First Class Honours in History, Sarah Hornley’s publishing career began at the publishers Orion in 2012, before a brief spell working in script development. She became a literary agent in 2015 and appear
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    Poetry Competitions
    The world’s only celebration of the literature of feline mortality is inviting entries. The Dead Cat Poetry Prize launched in 2021. This is the third iteration of the prize. Enter original, unpublished poems featuring dead cats up to 60 lines. The cl
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    Dream Home
    This month’s story, ‘Ma’ame Pelagie’ by Kate Chopin, is one in which setting is very important, both in a general and a very specific sense. The wider setting is the Southern US, post-Civil War, and the very specific setting is a particular mansion i
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    Make Time To Write
    Having welcomed in the new year, time stretches ahead of us like an empty page, waiting to be filled with writing. Whatever your good intentions, actually getting down to writing can be hard. We are all busy people, and it can sometimes feel that lif
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    Your Writing Critiqued
    The elderly tramp steamer Gudrun B ran in on the darkened coast of Cornwall1, her blue-and-yellow Swedish ensign blowing taut to starboard in the stiff westerly;2 as she came under the lee of the land, the seas moderated abruptly,3 and the flag flapp
    Writing Magazine2 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
    Hosting A Bookshop Event
    THOUGHTS ON SELF PUBLISHING WITH Hosting an event with a local bookshop is a powerful way for self-published authors to build local awareness, attract media attention, and connect personally with readers and retailers. Here’s how to plan, prepare, an
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    Five Quick Questions 5
    When and where did your journey as an author begin? I’ve had a lifelong passion for writing and have been a journalist since my early twenties, but it is only in the past few years that I have had the time to make a serious attempt at writing novels.
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    We Want Your Writing
    Each month in WM, we feature creative writing by our subscribers. Selected pieces will be published in WM and we pay £50 for prose and £25 for poetry, and provide a mini-critique explaining what made the pieces stand out to us. As this issue marks th
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    Indie Mags And Websites Accepting Submissions
    beestung is an online micro-magazine for non-binary and two-spirit writers and readers. It publishes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, hybrids, and art by non-binary, genderqueer and two-spirit creators. Payment is a US$20 honorarium. Website: ht
    Writing Magazine6 min read
    Getting Into (someone Else’s) Character
    When I began writing fiction as a child, it seemed natural to write about the characters I knew and loved. My first stories featured William Brown from the Just William series. Later, I graduated to writing Doctor Who fan fiction. Using familiar char
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    Talk On The Wild Side
    IIs anyone old enough to remember the 1950s television show in which panellists were asked to identify mysterious objects from museums, and then assign them to one of the categories above? I vaguely remember my own parents tuning in but, as a small c
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    Amy Jordan
    The Dark Hours is my first novel featuring retired detective Julia Harte and will be published on 30 January. Initially, I didn’t plan to write from the point of view of a retired detective, but the opening scene came into my head fully formed, and i
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    Nonfiction Opportunities
    The Walrus describes itself as Canada’s Conversation, provoking new thinking and sparking debating on matters vital to Canadians, writes Gary Dalkin. It is a registered charity publishing independent, fact-based journalism in a national magazine eigh
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    Small Press Opportunities
    Alternating Current Press is an indie press dedicated to publishing and promoting literature which ‘challenges readers and has an innate sense of self, timelessness, and atmosphere,’ writes PDR Lindsay-Salmon. The team love ‘science, history, homebou
    Writing Magazine2 min readCrime & Violence
    Behind The Tape
    If you have a query for Lisa, please send it by email to [email protected] QMy questions relate to 1960s CID. If a victim goes missing from their home in London and then is found murdered in Cheshire, would it be possible for a Metropolita
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    Independent Publishers Accepting Submissions
    Founded in 1992, Birlinn is an Edinburgh-based independent publisher with five imprints – Arena Sport, Birlinn, BC Books, John Donald and Polygon, writes Gary Dalkin. Published authors include Alistair Moffat, Mollie Hughes, Polly Pullar, Patrick Bak
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    A Sense Of Place
    One aspect of the travel writer’s task is not simply to describe a place, but to describe the atmospheric nature of it. It is a challenge, not least because what you feel is personal and subjective. It is many years since I visited the Taj Mahal, an
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    Focus Groups
    Focus groups are used in qualitative research and they typically involve a group of six to ten people sharing their opinions, beliefs and attitudes about a particular product, service, concept or idea. The discussion is facilitated by a moderator who
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    Still Time To Enter
    www.writers-online.co.uk/writing-competitions Writing Competitions, Writing Magazine, Warners Group Publications Ltd, West Street, Bourne, Lincs PE10 9PH WIN! £2,050 IN CASH PRIZES & PUBLICATION £1,200 TO BE WON Win a whopping £1,000 first prize for
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    REAL LIFE, Great Stories
    Non-fiction may be narrative-led (a true story) or subject-led (an exploration of a topic) and this month we’re looking at creative non-fiction that combines the two. One of my favourite examples is Nigel Slater’s Toast, which is described in the cov
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    New Year, New Writing
    When I do get around to thinking about New Year resolutions, mine are always the same. Listen more, talk less and write every day. Even as I think them, I know they’re not going to work. I am not a brilliant listener. As other people speak to me, tho
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    It All Adds Up
    Happy New Year to you! 2025 begins, full of opportunity and promise. Wherever you are in your writing journey, here are 25 tips for 2025 (in no particular order) to help you make the most of the year ahead. Work out what you want to achieve by the en
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    Anthology Submissions
    The editorial team at Parsec inc seek stories for their 22nd anthology, Dark Hearts, writes PDR Lindsay-Salmon. The anthology has a women-centred theme and anyone can submit ‘speculative stories and poems about women who are antiheroes.’ Send them st
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    Subscribers’ News
    As one of the first women ordained alongside men to be priests in the Church of England, I have had the privilege of sharing in the lives of people from all walks of life, writes subscriber Hazel Whitehead. Rich or poor, saint or sinner – all human b
    Writing Magazine6 min read
    The World Of Writing
    I’m tired most of the time these days. I’m afraid early morning alarms, age and caring for a family member suffering chronic pain might be catching up with me. And I find myself with little time and motivation to write very much. Often my output is l
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    Aria Aber
    German born and raised Aria Aber now lives in Los Angeles and has just started working as a professor. ‘My days are now structured around teaching hours. I barely have time to write, but am sure the rhythm will return sometime soon: I just need to ge
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    Laughter Lines
    Humorous writing is a serious business. A humorous poem is a tale usually (but not exclusively) written in a single voice. Think about it in terms of a stand-up comedian delivering a routine on stage or television. The script has to be funny, but the
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    Following Your Fears
    We are often asked where we get our ideas from. Certainly not from reading newspapers, or true crime stories, or from other thrillers. They don’t come when we are sitting opposite each other with a notebook, asking ourselves what our next book will b

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