Free Talk: Showing & Telling — How to Create and Maintain Authentic Connections with Your Readers

Learn effective techniques for "showing" and "telling" in your story.

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Free Talk: How to Write Captivating Side Characters (With Cat Rambo)

Explore the potential of side charactes with award winning author Cat Rambo.

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39 Themed Submission Calls and Contests for July 2025

These are calls and contests for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Some of the call themes are: games; phantom worlds; work; solarpunk; soilpunk; food (and fairy tales); of love & dragons; ghost stories; personal histories; regret; and obsession. THEMED CALLS Graywolf Press: Graywolf Lab – Games“Graywolf Lab is an online platform for interdisciplinary conversations and new…

Ten Manuscript Publishers Open to Direct Submissions in July 2025

International publishers and small presses open to direct submissions. No agent required.

SQUID Online: Now Seeking Submissions

A new literary journal seeking fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork, media reviews, and more.

Plot Holes? I Prefer to Call Them “Opportunities for Interpretation”

How to gaslight yourself into believing your book makes perfect sense.