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Excellent blog post from Chuck Wendig. Too good not to share. Fuck AI indeed. https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/12/08/gifts-for-writers-2026/

I don't know if you're aware of a new online literary magazine called Thin Skin? Thin Skin Magazine They only take submissions from writers over 50. They've published four issues so far, and the quality of stories is very high. Free to submit, and all submissions are anonymous. They don't...

“Writers don’t have lifestyles. They sit in little rooms and write.” Norman Mailer

Our latest writing competition has a prize pot of £1,000 up for grabs, plus an additional prize for any story or poem set in a Historic Houses property. Here are the details: Deadline: 23:59 (UK time) on Wednesday 5th November 2025 Entry Fee: £8 per entry (£15 for two entries or £21 for three...

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-artwork-to-deter-ai-companies.html?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook We only loose if we concede wo a fight. AI is not inevitable.

So, last year I entered a short story competition with a first prize of a week at the Swanwick Writers Summer School and was absolutely delighted when I won. This year I entered the children's story section of the competition and guess what. Whoo Hoo! Two in a row...

Can I just mention that this Saturday’s Huddle will start with a short demo by Litopian @Ed Simnett about markdown. Markdown is the most basic sort of plain text editing you’ll find. It’s been around for decades. Today, an increasing number of writers are finding that it’s just their cup of...

New blog post by Claire G You Don’t Know Me On The Honest Authors’ podcast, Gillian McAllister once mentioned that she was asked, “Do you really think that?” about something controversial she’d written in one of her novels. Her answer: “No, of course I don’t!” But at least in this instance...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/14/writers-respond-story-written-by-ai-sam-altman-chat-gpt-tracy-chevalier-kamila-shamsie-david-baddiel

Writers often like to talk about how intuitive the writing process is, but in truth, building a book is a remarkably unintuitive task. Or, to put it more accurately, you need a lot more than intuition. You need plot and characters. You need a setting. You need a theme that is relevant and...

https://stockholmwritersfestival.com/enter-first-5-pages-prize-2025

This is a contest with Gotham Writers - a writing school in NYC who also does online classes. I've taken 6 online classes with them, and they've all been great. Not a bad prize really... 10 words for a free class. Here's the contest from their site: It may be apocryphal, but the story goes...

https://foxprinteditorial.com/2023/07/06/how-writers-revise-joni-b-cole-and-toxic-feedback/

https://foxprinteditorial.com/2025/02/27/editing-revision-and-giving-up-on-a-story/

New blog post by Katie-Ellen Hazeldine The Stories in Our Stars: The Zodiac for Writers We are now in Pisces Season. But what are its stars, what’s the ancient story behind it all, and what does it mean for writers? Time to go fishing with Pisces. Traditional Associations...

Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there. Thomas Berger

New blog post by Katie-Ellen Hazeldine Our Stories in The Stars- The Zodiac for Writers Story Archetypes of The Zodiac We are now in the season of Aquarius The Original Rain Man, Sign of All Humankind Whatever we think of astrology, and here we are talking about Western, so-called...

Writing is so difficult, that I often feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. Jessamyn West