25 Amazing Break-In Stories on How to Be a Freelance Writer
How much time have you spent thinking about how to be a freelance writer? If it’s always on your mind, what are you waiting for? [Read More]
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On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories
Seven years after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, Ernest Hemingway, like Edwin Arlington Robinson’s privileged gentleman Richard Cory, “one calm summer night, [Read More]
Healey Launches Competition for Stories About Teenage Depression
Emma Healey, the author of Elizabeth is Missing, is urging aspiring authors to enter a new competition for stories about teenage depression…. Healey launched the [Read More]
The Other Stories Podcast: Now Seeking Fiction Submissions
The Other Stories is looking for new, emerging, and struggling writers’ stories. We want stories under 4000 words or that take less than twenty minutes [Read More]
‘A Place Of Darkness’ Is An Illuminating History Of Horror
A Place of Darkness is about as academic as they come; expect discussion of the “paradigm of monstration” and the ways weird films “provided a [Read More]
» Mookychick—Now Seeking Submissions of Stories, Essays, and Reviews
Launched in 2005, Mookychick—an online publisher of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and reviews—has evolved into a community forum for just about everything. Eclectic and inclusive, they [Read More]
How Writing Short Stories Can Help You Hone Your Novel-Writing Skills
Even if you’re focused on writing a novel, writing short stories can be a wonderful creativity tool to help you strengthen elements of your fiction, [Read More]
12 of the best British short stories you’ve never read
If you were asked to name a famous novel, or even a famous poem, you could probably rattle off at least a handful quite comfortably [Read More]
How to write engaging characters for your stories using traits.
BELIEVABLE and engaging characters are essential to most successful stories. While it is true that certain genres such as Action Adventure or Science Fiction adopt [Read More]
Break-out stories: the murderer who hopes writing fiction will set him free
High on vodka and crack, Curtis Dawkins shot a stranger dead. Sentenced to life in prison, he went back to his first love – writing. [Read More]