Fifty Shades of The Artists’ and Writers’ Year Book
Every emerging writer is familiar with the Artists’ and Writers Yearbook. It holds dreams within its red and yellow covers and this week the 2014 Yearbook was launched Alongside lists … Continue reading
The Devil Reads Prada
Originally posted on Colleen Anderson:
This is a tarot card, but maybe the devil is saying, if you don’t wear Prada, you wear nothing. You know the movie, the one…
Safari Friday searching the web for writers and readers How to be part of Web History
The Wayback Machine is an historical archive of preserved web pages going back to 1996 (which in internet terms must be The Dark Ages). Type in an URL and it … Continue reading
International fiction and non fiction writing competition — open to self published authors
Just heard about the Santa Fe Writers Project. Excuse me while I pause for a moment to savour those words. Santa Fe. Isn’t that the sound of the thundering herd? … Continue reading
Words for Your Wall – limited edition prints from Independent Book Shops
These A4 posters are only available from independent bookshops. They are five of them altogether commissioned by the Alliance of Publishers. The others are The Etymologicon (Mark Forsyth), The Wild … Continue reading
What place sets your heart on fire? International poetry competition
Holland Park Press Ltd publishes literary fiction and poetry, placing special emphasis on bringing the work of Dutch authors to the English language market. This year they are running a … Continue reading
Did you know 80,000 novels are written every day…140 characters at a time
Over 400 million tweets are sent every day – that’s the equivalent of over 80,000 novels. Source Intel photo credit: Vainsang via photopin cc
A book trailer you will never forget
Picador have gone to a lot of trouble to promote Lottie Moggach’s debut novel Kiss Me First in the hope that it will become this summer’s bestseller. They got the … Continue reading
Craft Fair at the Friends Centre – Brighton’s Independent Adult Education Service Thursday July 11th from 1pm to 7pm
Monday Creative Writing Exercise because it’s a good way to start the week: Magic for grown ups
photo credit: Iguana Jo via photopin cc Magic Realism is a literary genre where extraordinary and magical things happen but – and this is probably the defining quality – the … Continue reading
