Tag: Blogging
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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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Past two months, I wrote and received acceptances for six pieces after making a conscious decision: I spent less time on social media. Even though engaging through my platforms have emerged to become an indispensable part of my writing life. Why and how? Read on to find out. As you may very well know, writing…
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Dear Friends, Today marks four years since I launched this little corner of the internet—my author website! It is a space I carved out to share my writing, connect with readers, and give voice to others wanting to share theirs. I run my author site http://mandirapattnaik.com as a payback medium to Writing Community. It’s a…
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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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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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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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![[Subscribers Only] What Do Fiction Writers Do All Through Poetry Month?](https://mandirapattnaik.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-author-pic-31-aug-1.jpg?w=512)
Besides, hoping, some day, someone, for sure, will think of uplifting poor fiction writers with something on the same lines. Imagine what a month dedicated to the appreciation of fiction can do. Fiction Month for everyone. Fiction books shoving poetry books to the back shelves in bookstores. Something like a Fiction Foundation on the lines…
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GUEST BLOGPOST BY SUDEEPA NAIR, AUTHOR OF THE SERPENTS OF KANAKAPURAM FEBRUARY 21 2025 About six months before the pandemic shut us inside our homes, I quit my job. There was no single reason for the decision. It just felt right at that time. I gave myself until the end of the year to figure…
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GUEST BLOGPOST BY NAMRATA, EDITOR OF SINGAPORE-BASED KITAAB FEBRUARY 09 2025 There’s something magical about opening a fresh submission—a story waiting to be read, a voice waiting to be heard. As the editor of Kitaab, a South Asian literary magazine based in Singapore, I have had the privilege of witnessing the raw, unfiltered creativity of…
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First of all, I want to thank you all for the tremendous response to the year’s first blogpost “Best Platforms for Finding Submission Calls in 2025” that linked to 500+ open submission calls. I hope you found some great opportunities to send your work to. The post, I believe, found the traction that it did…
