Writing Magazine - 6 Nov 2025
IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!
WRITING LOCATION
Reading the world
Reach your readers
Masterclass: Finding the extraordinary
DEAR READER
Get published
The long and winding road (to publication)
Fantastic realms: Re-myth
Under the microscope
Writing life: Make like a rhinoceros
Creative writing: Know your place
Star interview: When joy chooses you
Writing life: Fierce ruling royalty
Research tips: Maps and spatial data
Creative writing: Place markers
Path to publication: Picture book special
Behind the tape
Ask the agent: Megan Carroll
Preparing for publication
The business of writing: YouTube, YouWrite
Creative writing building blocks: Dialogue: Part two
Shelf life: Julie Mae Cohen
From the other side of the desk: Pirates and payouts
The first five pages: Waiting for war
Ask a literary consultant: Set to submit
Writing business: Find your perfect platform
Poetry workshop: Collateral damage
Creative non-fiction: Real life, great stories
Writing life: Learning to read the world
My writing day: Carol Drinkwater
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
Novel ideas
Make like a RHINOCEROS
Make like a RHINOCEROS
REAL LIFE, great stories SHORT AND SWEET
Preparing for publication
Preparing for publication
The long and winding road (TO PUBLICATION)
The long and winding road (TO PUBLICATION)
Place markers
Place markers
KNOW YOUR PLACE
Six things to help you make location a pivotal part of a story
When JOY chooses you
When JOY chooses you
Your writing critiqued
Ready to have the first 300 words of your manuscript critiqued? Contact tjackson@warnersgroup.co.uk for details
In summary
Dialogue
Dialogue
WORDS & PICTURES
Novel Ideas List to live by
JULIE MAE COHEN
The Earthsea series by Ursula K LeGuin
By Marian Keyes
By Oyinkan Braithwaite
By Sarah Waters
By Art Spiegelman
The world of writing
A FANTASTIC IMAGINATION
TALKING POINTS
HUMAN VS ROBOT
A BIGGER BOOK BAG
FINDING THE FLOW
IN THE SPOTLIGHT: INVISIBLE
POETRY
PROSE
WE WANT YOUR WRITING
AND OTHER STORIES
21ST CENTURY BOY
NETHERGATE WRITERS
RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT TIME
Learning to read the world
Waiting for war
Collateral damage
Collateral damage
Finding the extraordinary
Finding the extraordinary
Re-myth What already exists?
READING LIST
CAROL DRINKWATER
WRITING PLACE
FIERCE ruling royalty
Find your perfect platform
Medium: https://medium.com/
Substack: https://substack.com/
Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com
NIX THE NEGATIVITY
YOUTUBE, YOUWRITE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY: CHANNEL CREATION
MAPS AND SPATIAL DATA
Behind the tape
Megan Carroll
A WEEK FOR BANNING
GET PUBLISHED
AUTHOR SERVICE SCAM
Set to submit
Coastal Crime
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
New president for WGGB
Unbound for Gaza
Booker shortlist
Gothic listening
Discoveries 2026
Keats-Shelley Prize 2025-26
Scottish Mountaineering Press
The Anthology Travel Writing Competition 2025
CWA Emerging Author Dagger 2026
aesterion
Cynren Press
Variant Literature
ZO
The Good Life Review
The Lemonwood Quarterly
SmokeLong
Luath Press
Bluemoose Books
Boroughs Publishing Group
Severed Press
White City Press
After the End 2025
Jerwood Arvon Writer Residencies
Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2026
Cambrian Mountains Poetry Competition 2025
Shepton Snowdrops 2026 Poetry Competition
The Moth Poetry Prize 2025
The Dark Poets Prize 2026: Edition lV
Flash 500 Short Stories Competition 2026
All change
The Kelpies Prize for Writing 2026
The Margery Allingham Short Mystery Competition 2026
The Welkin Writing Prize 2026
Farnham Flash Fiction Competition 2026
Well-directed gripes
If Walls Could Speak
If Walls Could Speak
Dragons in the mist
RUNNER UP AND SHORTLIST
Pirates & payouts
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