Womag and other writing

  In my 26th July post, I invited blog readers to give an explanation of this mysterious photo which appeared on my phone. My favourite rep...

These are the things I didn't get the chance to include in Saturday's post.  My life hasn't got any less busy so, although I...

  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 ...

Over to you posts are back! They're primarily intended as a way to share womag market information and to help and encourage each other w...

  Recently I've come across rumours and reports that various womags are either ceasing completely or are going to discontinue publishing...

Free entry competition news The Anansi archive have competitions for flash fiction, short stories and poetry, all with small cash prizes. I...

Womag news My womag news – Over the last week I've sold to My Weekly and Yours. All sales are good of course, but I'm especially ple...

Update 11/8/21 I've seen nothing official direct from ALCS, but have been forwarded messages saying in effect this was all a mistake by ...

 It's currently not possible to make ALCS claims for The People's Friend and My Weekly. This is because ' DC Thomson have moved ...

The winner Eirin picked to recieve a copy of I Know I Saw Her by E D Thompson, as offered in this post is – CHARLIE. Congratulations! Plea...

The complaint I've had a(nother) complaint about the blog. That doesn't really bother me. I accept it's not perfect, just as I h...

Another fiction editor will shortly be retiring from a D C Thomson magazine. In addition to Shirley Blair leaving The People's Friend (a...

I know I'm not alone in having had stories accepted by Woman's Weekly on the old terms, eighteen months ago, and not yet used. A mo...

There's a new email address for subbing fiction to My Weekly. If you're one of those who are permitted to send work you should have ...

If you're on the list of writers who may submit to My Weekly then you should have already recieved their latest guidelines, but just in ...

Pocket novels might not pay well, but friends who write them tell me they're fun to do and the editors of both publications are helpfu...

Shirley Blair (fiction editor at The People's Friend) has explained the situation with 1,200 word stories. To sum up, to increase your ...

Here are the latest guidelines for My Weekly pocket novels. Unlike with the short stories, you don't need to have been previously pu...

My Weekly have produced clearer, more detailed guidelines for their pocket novels - and they're accepting new (to them) genres too! ...

Allas magazine are one of the few who still send complimentary copies. I can't actually read Swedish,  in fact sometimes I have a great ...