It’s one of the most important tools of the modern writer, and yet so often poorly-defined and misunderstood. It’s your author platform, and it’s both a useful way to promote ...continue reading >>

Submissions deadline: 31 May, 2018 Northampton House Press will be publishing the second volume of The Night Bazaar dark fiction anthology series in October 2019. Volume One was set in ...continue reading >>

Submissions Deadline: Open Every Day Fiction is looking for very short (flash) fiction, of up to 1000 words. There’s no such thing as too short — if you can do ...continue reading >>

Submissions Deadline: Open The Lunatic Soviet is a publication that blends fiction, art and radical politics. We seek fiction, poetry, essays and art that emphasises values of solidarity, mass power, ...continue reading >>

Easily the most common question I’m asked about my writing is “How do you find the time?” To put this into context, I have a day job Monday to Friday, ...continue reading >>

The last time we spoke, I had finished my first semester and was writing essays. This time, I am writing essays. I am writing essays like I have never written ...continue reading >>

I often think of new books as having dark-adapted sensibilities, and imagine them blinking and wincing a little as they come out into the light. And I’m thinking of this ...continue reading >>

What if something happened in my next-door neighbour’s house, and nobody knew? What if we’re all so busy at work every day, and minding small children at night, and we ...continue reading >>

Not many first-time authors pay much consideration to deciding what tense to write in. Exactly which tense an author feels most familiar with will largely depend on the books they ...continue reading >>

Submissions Deadline: 15th April 2018 HCE Review is a quarterly online literary journal launched in 2016 by the MA and MFA Creative Writing courses at University College Dublin. The journal aims ...continue reading >>