Category: fiction
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In September, many literary journals accept submissions, but they quickly reach capacity. Meanjin, an influential journal, will cease publication in December 2025. The Worcester Review is celebrating its launch, featuring contributors’ work. Opportunities for writers, especially marginalized ones, are highlighted, along with resources to navigate the publishing landscape.
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For this blogpost, I’ve combed through my notebooks to come up with a list of five new PROMPTS you may try during the upcoming long weekend: On the theme of “FREEDOM” (since India is celebrating her independence day on August 15, that is just a day away), I will be writing a “freedom-themed” piece. Possible…
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If you are a writer, don’t read. That is the advice of leading writers, thinkers and eminent personalities, including Albert Einstein, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and William Woodard. Sounds like literary sacrilege, doesn’t it? More so, given that, as writers, we want to read everything we can lay our hands on. But, turns out, there…
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July 02, 2025 Hey friends! How about starting this month’s newsletter by sharing some submission calls I’m really excited about and believe you will be too. Hudson Review is open all month to a no-fee #poetrycontest 1st prize: $1000 + publication, 2nd & 3rd: $500 + publication. Submit up to 5 poems; manuscripts accepted electronically.…
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CRAFT ESSAY BY MANDIRA PATTNAIK Earlier this week, I was looking at the themes that literary magazines are currently open for. Some of them are “Science” (inScribe), “Memories in Shape” (The Literary Times), “Fairytale, Myths, Legends” (Livina Press), “Letter to the Editor” (The New York Times Magazine) and “I Wish I’d Said That” (THEMA). One…
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June 01, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! First up. Mysterious are the ways of the heart. My heart is full as both Glass/Fire and Where We Set Our Easel turned-in anniversaries–six months/4.25 Goodreads rating and two years/4.9 Goodreads rating respectively, but my collection of short stories is still looking for a publisher, even as the…
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GUEST BLOGPOST BY HARSHITA NANDA, AUTHOR OF Love Awaits, A Tale of Unbroken Promises MAY 18 2025 Most people have no idea what being a writer truly entails. Thus, I decided to pen down a few words and dispel some of the myths about being a writer and their writing process. Have you seen movies where…
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in spite of bending and breaking quite a few rules of literary fiction writing, “The Stackpole Legend” manages to be a hugely satisfying read “The Stackpole Legend” (Wendell Berry, The Threepenny Review) is not your conventional short story. Reading it can be revealing, especially to new and emerging writers. I say this because it busts so many myths early…
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May 06, 2025 Hey friends! Welcome back! Starting this month, this blog is set to become more regular and you’ll receive a monthly newsletter on the first week that is truly a newsletter–meaning it’ll have updates from the literary world we all ‘submit’ to (pardon the double meaning–we’re quite literally here!), news of open windows…
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Special Blogpost for National Poetry Month As you may remember, for my last blogpost I had shared my special Poetry Month trampset column What Do Fiction Writers Do All through Poetry Month? I hope you enjoyed the list, and especially, if you are a fiction writer, I hope you’ve been inspired by item #10 Check…
