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29th November 2020
Once again, the W&A Team have been inundated with entries for our annual short story competition, sifting through close to 1,000 in total. We...
Starting out
You have an interest in writing and your thoughts are turning towards committing some ideas to paper, or turning pages of notes into a full manuscript.
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29th November 2020
Firstly, here are our two brilliant runners-up with a few words from our judge Lisa McInerney on why they made the cut. Congratulations to the...
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29th November 2020
Alison is senior lecturer of Kingston’s Publishing MA and as well as author of several books including Is there a Book in You? and...
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29th November 2020
The participants ranged from a writer who hadn't yet written a word, to another who'd written two books and was working on a third....
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29th November 2020
Soon after the shortlisting announcement, I spoke to the mother of a boy I used to teach. I asked formally for her permission to dedicate my...
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11th May 2022
The Beginning
It's no surprise that since I was little, I've always loved books. As I got older and read more, I realised whilst I loved Middle...