Take pleasure in this writer interview I did with Matt Posner on his YouTube channel, The Faculty of Fiction. There’s a great deal of ebook advertising recommendation and good silliness. Take pleasure in! Assets talked about on this interview ABOUT MATT POSNER – THE SCHOOL OF FICTION On his voice: Learners and intermediate writers of…
The Waterston Desert Writing Prize 2025 Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Prize: $3,000 + Public Studying in Oregon The Waterston Desert Writing Prize, established in 2014, celebrates literary nonfiction that displays a deep connection to abandon landscapes and ecosystems. Impressed by poet and writer Ellen Waterston—Oregon’s present Poet Laureate—the prize helps rising and established writers…
Picture by Matthew Lengthy Homo Vitruvius and American Samizdat function houses for my weekly artistic writing and mental exploration. HV persists as my authentic and first Substack in these pursuits; AS arose in resistance to Trumpism and is devoted to its defeat. From memoir and poetry to fiction and drama, principally in HV, to historical…
Let’s welcome again Laurel Osterkamp as she shares with us “Literary Tropes Are Like French Fries.” Take pleasure in! *** Literary tropes. We all know they’re recurring patterns or themes in literature, serving as a shorthand for sure concepts or feelings. However how will we use them to our benefit? Consider it like this: literary…
Deadline: Could 10, 2025 | Prize: ₦100,000 The Idumaese Alao Basis (IAF) invitations entries for the 2025 Idumaese Alao Prize for Literature, a poetry award established in reminiscence of Idumaese Alao to have fun daring, artistic voices and honor excellence in literary craft. This 12 months’s prize shall be judged by Osieka Osinimu Alao…
2025 CINTAS Basis Fellowship in Artistic Writing Deadline: Could 1, 2025 | Award: $25,000 USD The CINTAS Basis Fellowship helps early- and mid-career Cuban writers working in inventive writing, together with fiction, nonfiction, and different literary varieties. Since 1963, the Basis has uplifted lots of of Cuban artists and authors throughout disciplines and constructed a…
Deadline: April 30, 2025 | Grant: $500 + Digital Residency The Literary Laddership Fellowship is again for its fourth version, providing a transformative alternative for rising African authors to develop their craft, join with fellow writers, and advance their artistic tasks. Based in 2022 by award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa, this digital fellowship helps…
This week’s featured article is “Collaborative Writing: Three Methods to Do It by Jasper Ezekiel.” Take pleasure in! *** My husband and I write collectively extra usually than we go on dates. Nearly day by day has a portion of it devoted to engaged on our present tales. This relationship mannequin has helped us keep…
Fantasy Character Teams Made Easy with Ezra Barany – How To Write the Future podcast, episode 148 *** “The actually cool factor about character teams is if you happen to’re making worlds, let’s discuss concerning the conditions the place worlds are in demand in style, and that will be fantasy. If you happen to’re making…
On April twelfth, 2025, the Awele Inventive Belief introduced the shortlist of the 2024 ACT Award. The Awele Inventive Belief is a not-for-profit belief created in 2013 with an goal to supply ‘a platform and enabling setting for artistic younger individuals in Nigeria via literature and humanities’. The ACT Award is a part of the…