After 2017’s Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets included only four women, 250 writers have agreed to boycott anthologies, conferences and festivals where women are not [Read More]
You wrack your brain, pulling, stretching, trying to extract an idea—one simple germ of a thought to get your writing adrenaline pumping—but nothing comes. Don’t despair [Read More]
Writing boxes, popular from the 17th century, provided the same pleasure as today’s laptops and custom word processors: to make the experience of writing pleasurable, [Read More]
There are many ways to document your time here on this planet, especially with the rise of social media. We take pictures, send videos and [Read More]
On June 4th, a group of lawyers shuffled into a federal court in Manhattan to argue over two trademark registrations. The day’s hearing was the [Read More]
Writer’s block is real. It’s such a struggle when the creativity just isn’t flowing. You had all of these awesome ideas in your head when [Read More]
Philip Pullman, Antony Beevor and Sally Gardner are calling on publishers to increase payments to authors, after a survey of more than 5,500 professional writers [Read More]
Self-employment often implies performing all kinds of tasks that otherwise would be divided among several people. For example, if you’re building your business on social [Read More]
At my first Santa Barbara Writers Conference, the question was, “What do you do?” Writing has always been my love, but no way could I [Read More]
I have an old friend who is starting a course in creative writing. I thought he could use some advice and, because I store writing [Read More]
YOUNG writers have until 18 July, Mandela Day, to sumbit their essays for the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation’s essay writing competition. The top three winners stand [Read More]
Self-directed program that offers time and space for writers to retreat and receive mentorship. OverviewThe Summer Writers Retreat is a self-directed program that offers time [Read More]
FlipHTML5 has launched a free eBook publisher that enables users to self-publish their eBooks online. FlipHTML5 has launched a free eBook publisher that is designed [Read More]
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FIRST IMPRESSIONS I first read the book when I was 17 years old, and I remember little else of that year besides the transformative experience of [Read More]
Fandom as a familial collective of readers and writers has existed since at least the 1920s, when lurid pulp fiction magazines encouraged Lovecraft’s quirky circle [Read More]
The signature of your emails may be a part of the message you don’t think about very much. After all, there are so many tips [Read More]
In celebration of Short Story Month, here is a list of websites, magazines and journals that publish short speculative fiction. They publish a whole range, [Read More]
Whether you’re new or have extensive writing experience, there are plenty of sites that can help you become a freelance writer. Becoming an online freelance [Read More]
To some, an adventure camp might sound like an exhilarating, intensely physical, and potentially perilous activity. For writers, it’s an exciting opportunity to work on [Read More]
Over the past decade and more, I have developed chronic and ongoing encounters with three incurable and disruptive illnesses (Meniere’s Disease, TMD and CP/CPPS – [Read More]
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