Tag: Flash Fiction
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Good morning, friends! We are officially into the last month of 2025–how utterly unbelievable is that! We’re also at the eighth edition of this newsletter–and 8 is an auspicious number in my culture, so I’m rather happy we’ve come this far. Let’s get straight to sharing some news from the lit world that caught my…
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Hello readers — welcome to the November 2025 edition of A Newsletter With a View of One’s Own. How are you? I hope you’re absorbing the changes around you and collecting memories. Writing spontaneously about perceptions and experiences, is extremely rewarding. Imagine your responses to “How are you” and pen a story. For example, “How…
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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 six 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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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 05, 2025 Last year, something happened to my writing process. Inspiration went cold. Sentences didn’t flow. And the right words became elusive beasts in an ever-thinning herd. Some people would term this “writer’s block”, two words that brought to mind an unyielding presence, an insurmountable obstacle with solid edges and sharp corners. I didn’t…
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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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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…
