Submissions deadline: open The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University and is edited and managed ...continue reading >>

Here’s how to embed an emotional arc into the structure of your book so no one will ever know… When a character changes during the course of a narrative as ...continue reading >>

It’s a real achievement to complete the first draft of a novel – congratulations! So, what now? It might be that you’re lucky enough to have fellow writers with whom ...continue reading >>

I confess….…that as Pride is one of the seven deadly sins I am up to my neck in trouble.  The day I received the galley for SINS from our printer, ...continue reading >>

In a world where artificial intelligence is out to automate all laborious and repeatable tasks, creativity becomes one of the most invaluable skills to possess for humans. Writers, in spite ...continue reading >>

Carol Coffey has used her extensive background in disabilities to bring the world of special needs to the wider population through her writing.  Here she talks about her novel The ...continue reading >>

A first draft is not a novel. A first draft is, at best, a potential novel. Different writers will have different amounts of potential in that first draft, but very ...continue reading >>

As a young boy growing up in Malta I was first entranced by action-adventure when I read Tolkien’s Rings trilogy. The scene of the fellowship racing through the Mines of ...continue reading >>

Submissions deadline: open Fiction/Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction/Art HCE Review (ISSN 2009-9916) is a quarterly online literary journal launched in 2016 by the MA and MFA Creative Writing courses at University College Dublin. The ...continue reading >>

Court in the act – author Kate Helm on how her experiences as a reporter led to her writing her first thriller: I was 18 when I first appeared in ...continue reading >>