Writing Magazine - 4 Sep 2025
ENCHANT YOUR READERS
SWEET & SPICY
Creative writing
WRITE BECAUSE IT’S WHO YOU ARE!
ARE YOU WRITING CRIME OR PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE?
DEAR READER
Get published
The first five pages: Ride on time
Shelf life: Simon Tolkien
My path to publication: Samantha York
Crime writing: Crime or psychological suspense:
Writing life: Vanishing point
The business of writing: Second edition solutions
From the other side of the desk: The nature of integrity
Under the microscope
Ask the agent: Hattie Grünewald
Behind the tape
Creative writing: Once upon a time
Write for success: Editing your novel: Part three
Ask a literary consultant: The right edit for you
Creative writing building blocks: A bag of books
Creative writing: Bringing a novel into being
Creative non-fiction: Real life, great stories
Writing life: The new and the old
Writing for children: Speak up!
My writing day: Tracy Baines
Writing life: Writing through the worst of it
Masterclass: Tall tales
Star interview: Sweet and spicy
Fantastic realms: Well packed
Poetry workshop: Stars in his eyes
Research tips: Academic research
Subscribers’ news: WM subscribers’ publishing success stories
In the spotlight: WM subscribers’ creative writing
Readers’ letters/The wide world of writing
Short story winners
Travel writing know-how
Going to market
Troubador tips
Novel ideas
Once upon a time
CRIME OR PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE: Detecting your genre
Crime or psychological suspense?
Bringing a novel into being
Writing through the worst of it
Editing your novel
SWEET & SPICY
REAL LIFE, great stories
Try this
Your writing critiqued
Lambeth Union Workhouse, 24th April 1882
In summary
SAMANTHA YORK
Big up the bad times
SALT PUBLISHING
SAMANTHA’S TOP TIPS
SHELF LIFE
SIMON TOLKIEN
Vanishing point
STAR LETTER
CONFIDENCE BOOSTER
FAINT PRAISE
MATCH BOOK
AN AID TO RECOVERY
PAY GAP
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF
Still Here
SHORTLISTED
Breaking Down Barriers
WE WANT YOUR WRITING
PERSONAL GROWTH
COMING TO FRUITION
MAKING A SPLASH WITH FLASH
BUILDING WITH WORDS
THE NEW AND THE OLD
WRITING FOR ADULTS VS WRITING FOR CHILDREN
RIDE ON TIME
Stars in his eyes
Stars in his eyes
Tall tales
SPEAK UP!
WRITING MAGAZINE CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE
WELL PACKED
SUGGESTED READING
TRACY BAINES
WRITING PLACE
Hattie Grünewald
SECOND EDITION SOLUTIONS
BUSINESS DIRECTORY: Karen Williams’ top tip
ACADEMIC research
Behind the tape
The right edit for you
CORNERSTONES
AI IN MAG ARTIFICE
WRITER’S NEWS
STRONG LANGUAGE FROM BRADFORD
GET PUBLISHED
Booker longlist
Bookish rebooked
2025 Mythopoeic Awards
Flame Tree Publishing
The Stygian Society
Inked in Gray Press
The Cut
Art UK
Fine Books and Collections
Factor Four Magazine
Anomaly
Solstice Books
‘Then & Now’ Together in the UK Writing Competition 2025
Clarion
The Porch
Seedlings
Last Girls Club
The Wild Muse Nature Writing Prize 2025
The 100 Word Project
Black Fox Literary Magazine
WestWord
Narratively
Claudine
Astrolabe
Night Shades
Baubles From Bones
The Cheltenham Poetry Festival International Poetry Prize 2025
The National Poetry Competition 2025
Iota Shot Pamphlet Awards 2025
The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition 2025
The GPS 2025 Open Poetry Competition
The Passionfruit Review’s competition is for poems on the theme of love.
Frosted Fire Single Poem Competition 2025
More is more
Poem:99 2025
Crowvus Christmas Ghost Story Competition 2025
Inkspot Short Story Competition 2025
The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition 2025
The Straid Poetry Collection Awards 2025
Small Harbor Publishing
Nat 1 Publishing
Ironclad Creative Short Story Competition 2025
Four Way Books
Sundress Publications
Prolific Pulse Press
Other people’s travels T
Historical Novel Society 2026 First Chapters Competition
The 2026 Exeter Novel Prize
The Ascent Novel Prize 2025
MASTERING BOOK DISTRIBUTION FOR SELF-PUBLISHED AUTHORS
PAST AND PRESENT
PAST AND PRESENT
RUNNER UP AND SHORTLIST
Rewilding
RUNNER UP AND SHORTLIST
The nature of integrity
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