In case you missed it: Porter House Review is currently open for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry submissions! Offer us your affecting, inventive, conversation starting work - we can't wait to read it. porterhousereview.org/submission-gui…

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We’re currently accepting submissions for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid, craft essays and creative nonfiction at Allium, A Journal of Poetry & Prose! To submit, go to: allium.colum.edu/submit Submissions open through January 31, 2024.

The enchanted winter woods of Finnish artist Ulla Thynell

The 2024 Mississippi Review Prize is open until January 1st. Our annual contest awards prizes of $1,000 in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Winners and finalists will make up next summer’s print issue. See our Submittable page for more info.

Submissions close December 15th. Send us your best short fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Before submitting, please review our guidelines at the link below: buff.ly/47EEuqL

A first draft of a book is to free your mind of the story to get the first shape of it. A second draft is then for shaping the story. #amwriting ~Sometimes the first draft is just me getting the story right in my head. ..Be Writing. #author #writing

Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres including short stories, novellas, memoir, creative nonfiction, hybrid work, etc.  sundresspublications.com/news/2023/12/s…

Thread of the most beautiful libraries on Earth 1. Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Brazil 🇧🇷

“The life of a writer. For most of us, becoming an author doesn't happen overnight or in one day; it's a gradual inching forward with peaks and valleys and with work and stories.” - Wrtr #amwriting Keep Writing. .. #writer #author #writing

Because agents read a bajillion queries every year, it's important to stand out in the slush pile. That is, of course, easy to say, but what does "standing out" look like in the eyes of an agent? Let's break it down: Tip #1 - Your grammar and spelling should be flawless. You're

✨BEREKET WRITER SPOTLIGHT ✨ Meet Briana Hernandez, a fiction writer living in Connecticut. Having published micro and flash fiction in her detailed yet concise prose style, Briana is currently working on a magical realism novel and a genre-bending short story collection. 1/9

Thinking of starting my querying journey... how do people feel about magical realism? ✨️

I’ve always had an #affinity For the strange The dark The unusual. For as long as I can remember, I could understand the obscure Far better than I could understand the “normal.” #vss365

She had an #affinity for deep waters: she had swum in the Great Lakes; dived in the ocean; explored Loch Ness, which was a little of both. She had barely glimpsed monstrous things, but never feared them. Why should she? She was one of them, whatever skin she wore now. #vss365

First query letter sent. The first of many!

Roughly 120 queries, 87 rejections, and a lot of tears later, I finally have an agent! #writerscommunity #querytrenches

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were artistic revolutionaries who rejected convention, defied the status quo, and unleashed a radical new beauty that shocked their world and still stirs ours. Here are their rebellious masterpieces that you need to know. 🧵