New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday September 15, 2015
Publishes short stories up to 3,000 words (submit up to two at a time) and poems (submit up to six of any length).
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Monday September 14, 2015
Actively seeking commercial fiction and nonfiction.
New Publisher Listing
firstwriter.com – Monday September 14, 2015
Publishes themed anthologies of poetry, stories, and essays. See website for themes of current calls for submissions.
A brace of writers and a Cross competition
independent.ie – Monday September 14, 2015
Lunch with a leading literary agent and a publishing scout and a classy, expensive pen - of such stuff are writer's dreams made. Here's your chance. Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin of the brilliant writing resources website Writing.ie has just launched a short story competition in association with Cross Pens for aspiring writers.
The vanity presses
abc.net.au – Sunday September 13, 2015
Hundreds of Australian authors pay thousands of dollars to 'vanity publishers', often based on unfulfilled promises that their books will be widely promoted and distributed here and overseas. Hagar Cohen investigates the dubious practices of one Australian publisher as she tries to find the authors' books in any bookstore.
Writing Out Gender Bias
huffingtonpost.co.uk – Friday September 11, 2015
The Nine Worlds Multi Genre Convention arrived in London at the beginning of August and I had been invited to speak on two panels. Being a huge science fiction and fantasy enthusiast and writer, I was delighted to attend. Nine Worlds is proof that you don't have to be a nerd or fan to enjoy science fiction, fantasy and gaming. Personally I don't like to use the term 'fan' as it implies that anyone who follows a TV show or a band is a nut job. We're generally not.
Unlearning to Write
slate.com – Friday September 11, 2015
The first thing you learn when you set out to teach writing is that you will never teach anyone to write well. It's a cruel joke universities play on humanities grad students. As you're preparing to step into a classroom, they assign you an impossible task, one they cloak with a label like "Introduction to Rhetoric" or "Expository Composition." Here are 20 undergraduates, they say. Show them how to make their prose sing. Staring your new charges down, you begin to speak. Your voice cracks. They see the fear in your eyes.
New Magazine Listing
firstwriter.com – Thursday September 10, 2015
Publishes Adventure; Fantasy; Historical; Horror; Religious; Science; Sci-Fi; Short Stories.
How Mindfulness Can Transform Your Writing Life
huffingtonpost.com – Thursday September 10, 2015
It could be said that writing starts when the ballpoint hits the surface of paper, or when fingers tap the square-shaped keys of a keyboard, but I like to think that writing begins somewhere else.
New Literary Agency Listing
firstwriter.com – Tuesday September 8, 2015
Specialises in nonfiction, but also has a small commercial fiction and children's list.
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