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December 2018
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WRITERS’ NEWS
Your essential monthly round-up of competitions, paying markets, opportunities to get into print and publishing industry news.
INTRODUCTIONS
Writing Magazine presents a selection of cooking publishers currently accepting contributions. We strongly recommend that you read back issues, familiarise yourself with their guidelines before submitting and check websites, where given, for submission details.
INTERNATIONAL ZINE SCENE
Brevity calls itself ‘a journal of concise literary
REGULARS
THE WORLD OF WRITING
Rotten rejections, junked jargon and traumatic travel tales, trawled up by Derek Hudson
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We want to hear your news and views on the writing world, your advice for fellow writers – and don’t forget to tell us what you would like to see featured in a future issue…
Helpline
Diana Cambridge solves your writing problems
Editorial calendar
Strong forward planning will greatly improve your chances with freelance submissions. Here are some themes to consider for the coming months.
Inside InDesign
PC trainer Greta Powell helps you make the most of Abode’s desktop publishing software
Check and double-check
Patrick Forsyth recommends reading your work aloud before sending it out
A letter for the future
When did you last write a letter, asks Lynne Hackles
Take time to talk
Even unlikely conversations might spark an idea, says Patrick Forsyth
ASK THE EXPERTS
Dear publishers – an open letter…
Make sure that you ask any publisher you deal with how they measure up, says the Society of Authors’ chief executive Nicola Solomon.
From theOTHE SIDE R OF THE DESK
In the first instalment of a two-part special on rejection, literary agent Piers Blofield offers a first-hand insight into some of the rookie errors that submitting writers make to agents and publishers
Ask a Literary Consultant
What are the next steps for a writer whose well-known and rather remote agent hasn’t been able to sell their novel? Helen Corner-Bryant suggests finding someone with a like-minded communication style
10 Things Never to Say to An Editor
Ensure you stay on the right side of the decision-makers with valuable advice from journalist Alex Gazzola
Fit to WRITE
If writing is a pain in the neck, you’re doing it wrong. Simon Whaley investigates how to stay writing fit.
Women’s history
Look at women’s lives from an historical point of view with advice from Tarja Moles
BEHIND THE TAPE
Expert advice to get the details right in your crime fiction, from serving police officer Lisa Cutts
DO IT YOURSELF
How to professionally format your book
Self-publishers, keep up to date with the best options to give your manuscript the look it deserves with help from successful self-published author Sofia Ashdown
Sound affects
Informed by her own experience, Toni Bunnell guides you through the process of recording an audiobook of your own writing
THE ROUTE AHEAD
You’ve found a publisher for your book. It’s your dream come true. But don’t rest on your laurels just yet – there’s a lot more work to be done. Author James McCreet helps you navigate what happens next
Cover story: DO IT YOURSELF
In part two of his mini-series, Alex Davis looks at the importance of cover art to writers who are self-publishing
INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES
Quirk reads
If ever there was a poster boy for writing for your heart not the market, it’s acclaimed novelist Edward Carey, whose latest novel is fifteen years in the writing and a lifetime in the making
How I got published
The debut author of paranormal thriller Fallible Justice hit the jackpot by entering writing competitions Interview by Dolores Gordon Smith
On Writing
Tony Rossiter explores great words from great writers
The style & technique of JACK HIGGINS
Tony Rossiter takes a look at the master craftsman of thrillers
Shelf life: ROBERT THOROGOOD
The creator of Death in Paradise share his top five reads with Judith Spelman
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
SUBSCRIBER SPOTLIGHT
Share your writing success stories. If you subscribe to Writing Magazine and would like to feature here, email Tina Jackson, tjackson@warnersgroup.co.uk
My Writing Day J.B. TURNER
Thriller writer J.B. Turner tells Lynne Hackles that he can procrastinate as much as he likes – as long as he meets his daily wordcount
CATHERINE FEARNS
Adrian Magson talks to the new crime writer whose writing is a murderous mix of heavy metal, religion and genetics
WRITING LIFE
When one door closes
What happens when your publisher shuts down? Romance writer Rachel Brimble tells us how she faced her fears and got her career back on track – on her own terms
Love letters
A fun writing collaboration to try with a friend, suggested by Bill Peters
Tackling the manuscript mountain
You’ve printed out draft copies of your work… but what’s the best way to deal with the resulting paper mountain? Jane Wenham Jones is on hand with some ingenious ideas
Cosy Crime Pays For Indy Author
Lynn Florkiewicz’s dream of being a writer began when she was just six years old, but it had to sit on the back-burner until, at the age of 45, she took a creative writing course with The Writers Bureau, and started out on a whole new adventure…
What you saying?
Writing a novel for young adults, Lorraine Mace faces the minefield of teenage slang
COMPETITIONS AND EXERCISES
FREE RANGE writing through the year
Jenny Alexander looks ahead and gets in the Christmas spirit for this month’s creative writing exercise
WIN! £500 IN CASH PRIZES & PUBLICATION
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
Tattoo-man
1st place 1,000-WORD STORYCOMPETITION £200
Cinnamon Buns
2nd place 1,000-WORD STORYCOMPETITION £50
Shape shifting
Give your writing shape and form in this group exercise by Julie Phillips
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY COMPETITIONS WIN! £250 IN CASH PRIZES & PUBLICATION
SUBSCRIBER-ONLY COMPETITIONS WIN! £250 IN CASH PRIZES
MAY
Born in the Soviet Union, Saniya moved to the UK from
CREATIVE WRITING
SETTING the scenery
Give your fiction a real feel of place by taking Adrian Magson’s advice
Under the Microscope
James McCreet puts a reader’s first 300 words under his forensic gaze
Write the world
Diversity in fiction publishing is rightly a hot topic and Margaret James says its high time to move on from tokenism and stereotypes
I wish I’d known…
‘When you’ve spent ages honing your manuscript, deliberating
Are you KIDDING me?
Make ‘em laugh in your short stories with Helen M Walters’ insights into what makes for humorous writing
Spell binding
Follow Amy Sparkes’ advice to create children’s stories full of magic and mystery
Found in TRANSLATION
Learning another language sharpens our understanding of our mother tongue and teaches us how to be better writers, says James McCreet
POETRY
Bad marks for TEACHER
Alison Chisholm looks at work by a poet newly revelling in the joys of creativity after being told by a teacher that he would never write
Poetry in practice
Newspaper headlines can prompt poems about responses to an event, says Doris Corti
Poetry from A to Z
Poet Alison Chisholm guides you through the language of poetry
An open field
Alison Chisholm lays out some ground rules for writers who would like their poems to shine in WM’s open poetry competition
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