Writing Magazine - 7 Aug 2025
TELL YOUR own STORY
WRITE FOR SUCCESS!
LESSONS FROM MARY SHELLEY
GOLDEN AGE CRIME:
DEAR READER
Get published
Creative writing building blocks: Description: Part Four
First five pages: M.J. Arlidge
Under the microscope
Star interview: Skeleton keys
Fiction focus: The end
Masterclass: The sporting life
Shelf life: Georgina Moore
Write for success: Don’t fear the rewrite!
Behind the tape
Research tips: Notetaking apps
Creative writing: Summon your monster
Life writing: Telling your (own) story
Path to publication: Xenobe Purvis
Poetry workshop: Character, created
Subscribers’ news: WM subscribers’ publishing
success stories
Write for success: Editing your novel: Part Two
Ask a literary consultant: Publishing for profit
Creative writing: Your life, your way
The other side of the desk: Pitch to please
The business of writing: AI authorial analysis
Writing for children: Grown ups for children
Author profile: K L Slater
My writing day: John Curran
Write for success: Pitch perfect
Creative non-fiction: Real life, great stories
Fantastic realms: Flashes of fear
In the spotlight: WM subscribers’ creative writing
Readers’ letters/The wide world of writing
Short story winners
Travel writing know-how
Going to market
Novel ideas
Telling your (own)
story
Telling your (own)
story
Your life, your way
Your life, your way
Marcia’s five top tips for writing autofiction
What is autofiction?
PART TWO
Don’t fear the rewrite!
PITCH PERFECT
SUMMON YOUR MONSTER “If something hurts, ask:What does this feeling look like as a character? What happens if I give my sorrow claws? Put it on the page. Name it. Shape it.Transform it into something that terrifies you, something you can mould.”
SUMMON YOUR MONSTER “If something hurts, ask:What does this feeling look like as a character? What happens if I give my sorrow claws? Put it on the page. Name it. Shape it.Transform it into something that terrifies you, something you can mould.”
SKELETON KEYS
SKELETON KEYS
REAL great LIFE, stories
Your writing critiqued
The main issue with the piece is the question of who is telling the story.
Description: PART FOUR
Description: PART FOUR
Amy Batley, editor, Hutchinson Heinemann
XENOBE’S TIPS FOR GETTING PUBLISHED:
DYNAMIC DEVICES
‘I mean, it’s great to think up a cool device, but that’s not a story. For me at least, the interesting thing is not the device, but what does that do to society or people? How do they change because of it? How do they rearrange? How do t
STAR LETTER
FIRM MIDDLES
NO HACKING
MICRO MANAGEMENT
POETRY
Two people are brought to life in Christine Griffin’s poem, which is a masterclass in the use of voice. The narrator is a stunning creation. In a few spare lines Christine conveys not just her sorrow, rage, understanding and love for her brother, but vern
COURAGE IN THE DARKEST TIMES
RECIPES FOR SUCCESS!
WRITING FOR CHANGE
CULT FICTION
THE HEAT IS ON
THE HEAT IS ON
Character, created
CHEWED MITTENS
THE END
Five quick questions
THE SPORTING LIFE
THE SPORTING LIFE
GROWN UPS for children
FLASHES OF FEAR
K L Slater
KIM’S TOP TIPS
AI AUTHORIAL ANALYSIS
BUSINESS DIRECTORY: AI analysis options
Notetaking APPS
Behind the tape
Publishing for profit
FAILING MEMORY
WRITER'S NEWS
Flame Tree Publishing
Raconteur Press
Dark Holme Publishing
Inkd Publishing LLC
The Big Book of Quantum Fiction
Slashic Horror Press
JMD Media
Terrazzo Editions
Brother Mockingbird
Dedalus Books
Inkubator
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Curtis Brown Creative New Writers’ Day
Young poets’ society
New Pooh
Honours for Val
The Caledonia Novel Award 2026
Daggers drawn
Breakout bot
Hiraeth Publishing
Cupid’s Arrow Publishing
Brief Wilderness Press
The Big Dithering Chaps 2025
Togetherness Poetry Challenge 2025
The Edward Thomas Fellowship Poetry Competition 2026
Wetherby Festival Comedy Poetry Competition 2025
So to Speak
The Enfield Poets Poetry 25th Anniversary Competition 2025
Rainy Weather Days
Bullet Points
Kinpaurak
After Happy Hour
SmokeLong
The Metropolitan Review
Get publishing savvy
Mekong Review
Eyelands Book Awards 2025
Books by Hippocampus
Intrepid Times Writing Competition 2025
Workers Write!
Fusilli Writing Flash Fiction Competition 2025
T
Look Back
No Regrets
RUNNER UP AND SHORTLIST
Pitch to please
STILL TIME TO ENTER
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