The Australian Women's Weekly

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime t

TIME

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The narrator of Courtney Maum’s third novel, Costalegre, is desperate for her mother’s attention. It’s 1937, and 15-year-old Lara Calaway is moping around the southwestern coast of Mexico. Her mother Leonora, a wealthy modern-art collector, has invit

Scoop

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The Millions

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Benjamin Dreyer graduates to our Hall of Fame, making room for new Colson Whitehead, while Sally Rooney pulls off the extremely rare double listing. The post The Millions Top Ten: July 2019 appeared first on The Millions.

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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The Duchess of Cornwell has shared some of her favourite recent reads to inspire book lovers and promote reading. Her Royal Highness is an avid reader and patron of several literary organisations. Gothic horror meets psychological realism. A crime

Writing Magazine

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The Hysteria Writing Competition 2020 is inviting entries. The competition, which is run by Linda Parkinson Hardman, supported the work of her social enterprise The Hysterectomy Association until that closed in 2019. It’s now run from Linda’s blog. T

Watch

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The two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning author turns his attention to the settling of the Northwest Territory in the late 18th century. McCullough focuses on the story of five pioneers, drawing upon their journals and letters to create a thrilling portray

The Millions

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The Aspen Words Literary Prize was awarded yesterday to Tayari Jones for An American Marriage, at a ceremony in New York City. The prize, which operates out of the Aspen Institute, awards $35,000 annually to “an influential work of fiction that illum

NPR

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Safia Elhillo's novel follows a first-generation Muslim American girl who, bullied at school, longs for the homeland she's never really known and the alter ego who represents a more confident self.

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

The Atlantic

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Highlights from 12 months of interviews with writers about their craft and the authors they love

TIME

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JOHN LANCHESTER’S LAST NOVEL, Capital, published in 2012, was a Dickensian tour of London in the era of global capital—but before crises of xenophobia and worsening climate change came crashing down. The British journalist and novelist’s latest, The

The Atlantic

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Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, discusses his new short story for The Atlantic.

Entertainment Weekly

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BY Louise Erdrich PAGES 267 GENRE Sci-Fi IF REAL LIFE SEEMS TO BE tipping further toward dystopia lately, it makes sense that art would follow—even for a novelist as earthbound and richly humanist as Louise Erdrich. Though her latest actually foun

Entertainment Weekly

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With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

Literary Hub

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Writing this column allows me to indulge my passion for fiction—but it also allows me, more specifically, to indulge my passion for fiction in translation. Bear with me for a moment. I know we all have lots of things begging for our time, and while,

The Australian Women's Weekly

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Leah Swann, 49, was born in Melbourne where she remembers a childhood “full of daydreaming, playing outside, storytelling, drawing and reading”. She was always filling notebooks with stories and says over time “it dawned on me I was a writer”. A volu

Writing Magazine

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The Historical Writers’ Association Dorothy Dunnett Short Story Competition is inviting entries. The competition is for original, unpublished historical fiction in any genre, up to 3,500 words. All stories must be set at least 35 years in the past. T

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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Want to make There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job your next book club read? Here are some talking points to spark a discussion. • Does this novel have a message for its readers? If so, what do you think it is? • Was there a job that our narrator tack

Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

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Kate Mildenhall, 39, is an author and teacher whose Melbourne childhood shaped her passion for books. “I was a massive reader. Our house was filled with books and it was very normal to spend all day curled up with books. I started (like so many write

Total Film

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A companion/sequel to 2017’s The Art And Soul Of… this reveals more about unused ideas, from Luv’s original fate to a canopy covering all of Vegas. Aside from a section on dystopian couture (this season’s theme is ‘urban snow trash’), the focus is lo

Writing Magazine

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I’m about to submit my novel to agents. I’m not sure how to categorise it, whether it’s literary or commercial or somewhere in-between. Could you tell me the difference? This is a time-old question, and one that invites a great deal of debate within

Writing Magazine

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Literary independent Galley Beggar Press will open its submissions window for full-length manuscripts between 15 and 31 July. Galley Beggar Press publishes literary fiction for adult readers. Writers may submit novel manuscripts, short story collecti

Writing Magazine

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Small press Close 2 the Bone publishes novels and short stories. They need ‘gritty and interesting’ fiction across multiple genres, stories about ‘bank robberies gone bad, double-crossing bastards going at it, serial killers with a heart (maybe liter

Literary Hub

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In the 30 Books in 30 Days series leading up to the March 15 announcement of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle award winners, NBCC members review the thirty finalists. Today, NBCC board member Tom Beer offers an appreciation of fiction finalist J

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Rebellion Writer John Smith Artist Simon Harrison Revelatory lost ’90s psychedelic masterpiece or incomprehensible pseudomystic BS? Either way, this strip – first in a series of new digital-only graphic novels – is certain

Writing Magazine

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‘We (Anne Forrest and Judy Price), both left school at fifteen with little opportunity for further education until decades later when Judith studied for a BA, and Anne for a Masters, in English Literature with Creative Writing at Wales’ Bangor Univer

Writing Magazine

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Did I mention that I have signed up for a two-book deal? Lucky me, right? The only problem is that now I’m tasked with delivering the next novel in two months’ time. No problem for a seasoned (jaded) writer like myself, surely? After all, I’ve churne

Writing Magazine

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The Ampersand Agency represents authors of contemporary and historical novels, literary, crime, thriller, fantasy, science fiction, non fiction, current affairs, history, biography and popular science titles in addition to authors of books for childr

Literary Hub

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Mamta Chaudhry arrived at the University of Florida to begin her master’s degree program as a broadcast journalism student. “To people in Florida, Calcutta seemed so exotic, but to me Gainesville was so exotic.” Chaudhry shares her journey from her l