Writing Magazine - 6 Mrz 2025
MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY!
WRITING TIPS: HOW TO USE THIRD PERSON POV
YOUR LIFE, YOUR VOICE
GO BEYOND GENRE
Why it’s important to top up your creative well
AUTHOR INSIGHT
EXPERT INSIGHTS TO GET YOU WRITING
DEAR READER
Get published
Creative writing building blocks:
Tense and point of view: Part four
Creative writing: Unsilencing Sycorax
Shelf life: Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Research tips: Research ethics
Under the microscope
Advertorial: Publishing an audiobook
First five pages: Talking dolls
Advertorial: TopWrite20 – Celebrating two decades of nurturing young writers at Swanwick Writers’ Summer School’s programme
Star interview: Time warp Screenwriter James Alistair Henry on
his mind-bending alternate history
My path to publication: Rachel Bower
Characters: Writing from dual perspectives
The other side of the desk: Reading for pleasure
Fiction focus: Bring out your baddies
Behind the tape
Writing for children: Big feelings for little readers
The business of writing: Topping up the creative well
Ask a literary consultant: Plan for success
Creative writing: Going beyond genre
Creative writing: Inviting you in
Real lives, great stories: Creative non-fiction
Poetry workshop: Layers in the lines
Creative writing: Attract and repel
My writing day: Joe Heap
Fantastic realms: Branching out
Ask the agent: John Baker
Masterclass: The winds of change
Subscribers’ news: WM subscribers’ publishing success stories
In the spotlight: WM subscribers’ creative writing
Readers’ letters/The wide world of writing
Travel writing know-how
Short story winners
Poetry winners
Novel ideas
Inviting you in
Inviting you in
EXERCISES
Characters: WRITING FROM DUAL PERSPECTIVES
Attract & REPEL
UNSILENCING Sycorax
UNSILENCING Sycorax
Nydia’s tips for writers with chronic illness, pain and fatigue
Try this
Going beyond GENRE
Going beyond GENRE
Exercise: Finding genre
TIME WARP
TIME WARP
TOPWRITE20
Your writing critiqued
TENSE AND POINT OF VIEW: PART FOUR
TENSE AND POINT OF VIEW: PART FOUR
RACHEL BOWER
Staring into space
Stephanie Rathbone, Senior Editor at Bloomsbury Publishing
RACHEL’S TOP TIPS
SHELF LIFE
LIZZIE DAMILOLA BLACKBURN
My Not So Perfect Life by
My Sister, The Serial Killer
Just for The Summer
On Beauty
RAGE AGAINST THE AI MACHINE
STRANGE CASE OF THE DIVIDED MEMORIAL
IMMERSED IN CREATIVITY
GAME ON FOR THE NERDS
A WRITER’S ACCOUNTS
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES
COMPLETION COURSE
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: YOUR WRITING The starting point
POETRY
WE WANT YOUR WRITING
SHORTLISTED
CATS, CORACLES AND COLLABORATION
PARTY LINES
HOLDING OUT FOR THE RIGHT DEAL
FROM BOOKS TO BRAND
THE RISING TIDE OF AUDIOBOOK PUBLISHING: A new era for authors
TALKING dolls
Layers in the lines
Layers in the lines
SOLO
BRING OUT YOUR BADDIES
5 Five quick questions
THE
WINDS OF CHANGE
THE
WINDS OF CHANGE
BIG FEELINGS FOR LITTLE READERS
BIG FEELINGS FOR LITTLE READERS
BRANCHING out
BRANCHING out
TOPPING UP THE creative well
TOPPING UP THE creative well
BUSINESS DIRECTORY: RESERVOIR REFILLING ROADMAP
RESEARCH ETHICS
Behind the tape
Further reading
JOE HEAP
WRITING PLACE
John Baker
SAVE UK CREATIVES FROM SCRAPING
PRATCHETT ESTATE TAKES CONTROL OF GOOD OMENS
Plan for success
CORNERSTONES
ANTHOLOGY SUBMISSIONS
Creative Future Writers’ Award 2025
The Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2025
INDIE MAGS AND WEBSITES ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS
Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize
Exceptional Edgars
Fantastic news for FairyLoot
The Bath Novel Award 2025
Bluepencil Agency First Novel Award 2025
Romantasy reigns
Philip K Dick shortlist
Feral House
foofaraw press
Scottish Mountaineering Press
Unnerving
Graveside Stories
Folly X.O.
Blue Crystal
Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
The Plaza Short Story Prize 2025
The Brick Lane Bookshop 2025 Short Story Prize
The Bath Short Story Award 2025
Eyelands International Short Story Competition 2025
The Plaza Flash Fiction Prize 2025
Christmas Spirits
Rattle
Fantasy Magazine
Incensepunk Magazine
Remains
HOOT
Wirral Poetry Festival Open Poetry Competition 2025
MAYDAY
Wigtown Poetry Prizes 2025
Purorrelato 2025 Micro-story Contest
Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition 2025
The Fish Poetry Prize 2025
The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2025
Ver Poets Open Poetry Competition 2025
The Plough Poetry Prize 2025
Making it clear
Dialogue Earth
Just Labs
FULL-SERVICE SELF-PUBLISHING VS. AMAZON KDP
Setting the verse free
Setting the verse free
WINNER
SHORTLIST
THIRTEEN HOURS, FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES AND THIRTY-SEVEN SECONDS
THIRTEEN HOURS, FIFTY-EIGHT MINUTES AND THIRTY-SEVEN SECONDS
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