An editorial director at HarperCollins, and author of four novels, with The Wild Girls due out in April @Phoebe_A_Morgan I think it’s safe to say 2020 has been a curveball for us all. Thankfully, the publishing industry has got through it, and the to

Soft Punk is an international arts and culture quarterly, based in London and New York. The editorial team ‘are intentionally agnostic of a “house style” and liberated from dogmatic conceptions of brow’. The team ‘curate emotive, insightful, and occa

Portal Books are launching a new imprint devoted to fantasy and science fiction. While all subgenres of speculative fiction will be considered, the editorial team of Taran Matharu (author of the multi-million selling Summoner series), Michael Miller

New York born and based author Raven Leilani has won the $50,000 Kirkus Prize For Fiction for her debut novel, Luster. Raven also won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, a remarkable double which establishes her as a major new figure in the US

I just wanted to say a massive, massive thank you. I’ve been cluelessly stumbling about for a long time trying to find somewhere to place my short stories – and then I discovered Writing Magazine’s invaluable Writers’ News section. I saw a call for s

The grey metal lockers of the changing rooms slam with a familiar rhythm.1 Some staff carry the end of work day weariness2 in their shoulders, 3others give a cheery ‘See you tomorrow.’ Never to me.4 If I had an identifier it would be “the quiet dark

‘At the beginning, I wish I’d known that it is easier to there. In fact, you can only edit words that are actually there. So, rather than obsess about every sentence being perfect as it lands on the page (because, unless you’re a genius, that’s not g

Win a £1,000 prize for an 800-word story featuring a secret location in the Globe Soup Winter 2020 Flash Fiction Competition. Writers entering the competition will be sent the details of the competition when they have paid their entry fee. All entrie

In the biggest shakeup of the industry in years, the ‘big five’ publishers are about to become the ‘big four’, as Penguin Random House (itself part of the giant German media company, Bertelsmann) is in the process of purchasing Simon & Schuster from

Queer Lit is a new UK online bookshop for readers of LGBTQ+books. Managing director Matthew Cornford said he had the idea to start Queer Lit after visiting ‘the biggest bookshop in the North’ and being shocked to discover it didn’t have an LGBTQ sect

Find out what the SoA could do for you at www.societyofauthors.org and get 15 months for the price of 12 with the code WRITINGMAG The SoA advisory team reviews thousands of contracts sent in by members each year for confidential, clause-byclause cont

There’s some very good writing here. It’s difficult to capture the natural rhythms of thought or speech, but that effect is achieved in the juxtaposition of short and longer sentences. It feels like the character is talking directly to us, which make

Previously unpublished articles that are ‘well written and thoughtful’ are wanted for Australia based Quadrant magazine which sees itself as a ‘journal of ideas, essays, literature, poetry and historical and political debate’ and has a founding bias

Published three times a year in February, May and September, Poetry London features both acclaimed contemporary and new poets. The magazine has an editorial aim to encourage emerging poets and on average, a third of its pages contain work from poets

Last year, in a city park, I came across a children’s book, with a tag that said, ‘Whoever you are, this is for you. Happy Book Giving Day!’ I counted six children’s books in the park that day. International Book Giving Day takes place on 14 February

The Correspondent styles itself as a journalism platform focused on constructive, in-depth reporting. Managing editor Eliza Anyangwe says the site places a high value on diversity and wants to impact journalism itself with an approach to stories that

Australian publishers Gypsum Sound Tales specialise in short stories and novellas. They have two main publications, Colp and Thuggish Itch, which ‘allow… every author, no matter their experience or background, the opportunity to get their work out th

With a past as a probation officer and a partner who is an ex-murder detective, there is no question that Mari Hannah’s crime fiction bears the stamp of authenticity. But it also involves the kind of emotion you would expect in an epic romance. In he