Womag and other writing

It's the eleventh day  of Christmas today. As I'm rather short of pipers piping, here are 11 free to enter writing competitions for ...

Wishing you happiness, productivity and positivity in 2025. May the words flow and your typos be spotted before you click 'submit'.

This will be the last blog post until 2025 (unless there's exciting news which can't wait) so Solstice Greetings, Merry Christmas, H...

In case you missed seeing the comment - Marguerite, who regularly contributes to this blog, has won the latest Best competition!  Congratula...

Today's top tip - use your local library if you possibly can. If they're not used we might lose even more of them.  Libraries are a ...

Free entry competition news Thanks to Suzan who supplied the link to this short story competition . You do need to register to enter, but th...

Today's top tip is - read lots! I hope we all realise it's important to read current issues of any magazines we wish to submit to, i...

Sorry, not much for you this week. Just a little competition and a small, but vitally important, example of British wildlife. I've been ...

Editors don't generally tell us why stories (or books, poems, essays etc) are rejected. Let's face it, they don't always even se...

Free entry competition news The latest mini competition from On the Premises is to write a story of 25 - 50 words without using the letter ...

  Do you have any   writing news ? Do you know any market news? Have you heard about any free to enter writing competitions? Or come across ...

I missed one week's top tip as I was away visiting my writing buddy, Rosemary J Kind . We met online years ago and get together whenever...

  Sorry, I've been so busy writing and editing as well as with lots of non writing stuff that I'm not keeping up with the blog very ...

I've had an email from Lucy Crichton, fiction editor at The People's Friend. She contacted me in response to comments on my last pos...

Good luck to any of you who are attempting NaNO this month. I'm not doing it, but I've challenged myself to write a few more short s...