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Copyright quibbles, new work from old heroes, fantastic food and Jane Austen’s favourite snack, all mashed up in the wonderful world of writing
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Ask the Experts
Cut to order
Helen Corner-Bryant advises a writer in full flow whose first draft keeps growing... and growing
Kiss off
Piers Blofeld looks at some of the outdated publishing practices that working from home is helping to make extinct
Writing Life
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Author Cecily Blench describes how travel writing, adventure travel, wartime history, family history and intrepid women all fed into her debut novel
Time for change?
As we  adjust to move out of lockdown, it will impact on our writing lives too. In the first of a threepart series, WM has some strategies to help you strike the write balance
Building on Bridgerton
Why has Julia Quinn’s Regency romance taken the world by storm? Rosalind Moody takes a peek behind the scenes
Pace yourself
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Under the covers Don’t give up!
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MAKING THE BEST OF IT
Margaret James finds out how different writers have been staying positive and keeping their creativity alive in lockdown 
SIZING UP YOUR PUBLISHER
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SOUR GRAPES
Lorraine Mace wonders why some writerly acquaintances seem determined to be unpleasant
Competitions And Exercises
Jolly holiday
Think about getaways past and present in these holiday-themed exercises from 
DARKTALES short story competition
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Secrets & lies
Get creative with the truth in these writing group exercises from Julie Phillips 
Interviews and Profiles
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
Alternative history is a delicate balance, Natasha Pulley tells Tina Jackson
Julie Shackman
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MATT CAIN
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CIRCLES’ ROUNDUP
If your writing group would like to feature here, whether you need new members, have an event to publicise or to suggest tips for other groups, email Tina Jackson, tjackson@warnersgroup.co.uk
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Creative Writing
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In part five of her series on self publishing your book, indie author DJ Bowman-Smith guides you through formatting
Your writing critiqued
James McCreet analyses three short samples of literary excellence 
Writing yourself out of a corner
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Kick the (bad) habits
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PLAYING THE GAME
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Interviews and Profiles
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Ask the Experts
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Behind the tape
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Golden opportunity at Virginia Quarterly
What kids want
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Austen and awareness
The charity which owns the cottage where Jane
Do your best for Bedford
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FLASHES
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Black Shuck on the hunt
Go with the flow
Alternating Current is a boutique, independent press with
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On your bike!
Breaking down barriers
Unpublished or self published Black-British writers are invited
Fresh horrors wanted
Dread Stone Press is a publisher of horror
FLASHES
The Writers’ Bureau Poetry Competition 2021 invites entries
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Run on copy
Christmas romance wanted
Stories Rule Press is a small, family-owned Canadian
Write for change
Hay Festival’s Write for Change is inviting submissions
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Expand the universe
Let your short script sing
The Covid-19 pandemic resulted in scriptwriters having fewer
Speak out
GOING TO MARKET
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Editor James Pearce has put out an open
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Buzzy opportunity
Look north
Robert Scragg has won the Lindisfarne Prize for
Mystery winners revealed
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the
In a flash!
100-word entries are invited on the theme ‘Revealed’
UK FICTION MARKET
Forging new fiction
A hand-up for new Scottish writers
Scottish Book Trust is inviting applications for the
Grow with this journal
Billing itself as ‘a literary journal that takes
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Prose pretty please 
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Impress Bluemoose
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The shape of play
Prize of poets of colour
The James Berry Poetry Prize for emerging poets
A grand plus one
The Chiasmus Short Story Competition from Tortive Theatre’s
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Common but fantastic
FLASHES
The international Fingal Poetry Prize 2021 has €500,
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Compelling reads wanted at Holland Park
Hold a candle
The Moths to a Flame poetry competition is
Get lost with Olga
The Olga Sinclair Prize 2021 is open for
Novel opportunity
The Novel London 2021 Literary Competition is an
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Tabletop reading
Young writers find a key
Scribblerzone Writing Competition 2021 will open on 23
Isele thing
Isele Magazine has a team of editors who
Novel Ideas
Step after step
FLASHES
SaveAs Writers invites prose and poetry entries on
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The world of wargames
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Make your voice heard
Find your place in Small Harbor
US small press Small Harbor Publishing is currently
Creative aesthetics
The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2021 is inviting
INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
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FLASHES
The Anthology Poetry Award 2021 is inviting entries
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Cherished children’s lit
Tales of the flesh
DL Russell Books specialises in horror and erotic
Badass dragons wanted
WolfSinger Publications are closed to book length submissions
On the shelf
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FLASHES
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