Guidelines for the Inkwell Fiction Contest
Inkwell Short Fiction Contest 2025 Who can enter the contest? You may enter the contest if you are an Inkwell member and live in China. What is the theme? Participants are required to submit an original piece of writing suitable on a given theme. The theme of the contest is “It didn`t have to be…
Inkwell Summer Fiction Contest
We are thrilled to announce thatInkwell is launching an exciting new short story contest! As an aspiring author, I very often experience moments when I don’t quite know what to say. It’s strange, isn’t it? We rely on words to express our thoughts, yet sometimes there just aren’t enough of them — or the right ones —…
Using Literature as a Springboard: Novel Craft and David Bradbury’s Harbor City Homicide
This is a craft essay from Inkwell fiction writer, David Bradbury on his process as a novel writer. I hope you’ll consider buying his newest book, Harbor City Homicide, which is available on Amazon. Hello Fellow Writers, Ryan has asked me to jot down my thoughts about the process of starting off with the idea for a…
Deadline for Coronavirus Submissions is April 30th
The Shanghai Writing Workshop is putting a deadline on its call for its Coronavirus/Covid-19 collection. Please consider submitting.
Chekhov quote
Cross out as many adjectives and adverbs as you can. . . It is comprehensible when I write: “The man sat on the grass,” because it is clear and does not detain one’s attention. On the other hand, it is difficult to figure out and hard on the brain if I write: “The tall, narrow-chested…
Call for Submissions on the Coronavirus Outbreak
The Shanghai Writing Workshop is looking for work about this difficult moment. Take a look at the calls below and consider sending in some work.
Arc magazine
Poems – Labour and Livelihood Ends on June 15, 2019 If you subscribe to Canadian literary magazines, you’ll doubtlessly have seen Prairie Fire‘s Spring issue, “Work Matters“. Discussions about livelihood and labour and all of the things poets do to keep finding time to write are discussions that Arc wants to keep going. We’re thinking about the…
Calls for Work June 1
Creative Nonfiction Seeks Submissions on “Power” Deadline: June 10, 2019 Creative Nonfiction is looking for new work about power. For this issue, we are seeking true stories that explore the dynamics within groups and systems, however big or small—for example, family units, schools, sports, churches, and government. Share your stories about power lunches, power grabs, power…