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📚 The Disappearers by: Marlon James

In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play, a modern masterpiece titled Fortune and Men's Eyes by Canadian playwright John Herbert. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All o...

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A somber literary scene unfolds as a young poet gazes out at a river view, their thoughts consumed by creative turmoil and introspection.

#illustration #realistic #literary #art #writing

I'm #listening to #redrising and no shade to the #literary craft of the series but I really #dislike the #roman #trope. It shows a lack of imagination in my #opinion. And I feel the same way about #suneater.
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I'm #listening to #redrising and no shade to the #literary craft of the series but I really #dislike the #roman #trope. It shows a lack of imagination in my #opinion. And I feel the same way about #suneater.
#books #bookstodon

I'm #listening to #redrising and no shade to the #literary craft of the series but I really #dislike the #roman #trope. It shows a lack of imagination in my #opinion. And I feel the same way about #suneater.
#books #bookstodon

I'm #listening to #redrising and no shade to the #literary craft of the series but I really #dislike the #roman #trope. It shows a lack of imagination in my #opinion. And I feel the same way about #suneater.
#books #bookstodon

#books #readingcommunity #feminist #fiction #autobiography #memoir #nature #scifi #history #literary

I read a whole lot in June! It has been very good. A distraction that is also deeply invasive and utterly important.
I loved:
I Who Have Never Known Men, A Protest History of the United States, and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Very excellent. And I couldn't get enough of Deborah Levy, particularly her nonfiction.

New eBook by Author Daniel Macintyre (also known as Zachary Mason) now appears on Amazon! Link: https://amzn.eu/d/003vSHf0

#books #authors #writing #sciencefiction #scifi #ebooks #newebooks #literary #amazonbooks

paracelsus arrived

paracelsus arrived
before the south gate
was unlocked

while he waited
to ask the watchman
if the pestilence had come
to wittenberg before he had

the east gate 
was opened like an eye

and the morning’s early sun
that had risen from where it waited

its shining entered 
the town like a tide

We hope you'll join us for our 20th anniversary Writers and Illustrators Conference, with online sessions this weekend and in-person/streamed sessions next weekend.

If you haven't booked yet, you can do so at www.CYAConference.com

#CYA2025 #CYAConference #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks

Parents versus Teachers
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A timid teacher in an unruly class leads to a situation that rapidly escalates... My ballad in light verse in MuddyUm on
@medium https://medium.com/muddyum/parents-versus-teachers-550b6c4bd124?sk=f22105b254df2f20d4c3ff9c8df1c29c
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#poetry #verse #humor #education #school #teacherstudent #discipline #administration #literary #ballad

08 days until the CYA2024 writing and illustration competitions close. www.cyaconference.com/competition

16 categories for everyone from published, aspiring and under-18 authors and illustrators.
Picture book to adult genres, and illustrations

Published authors categories:
- Picture book (text only)
- YA/middle grade
- Writing for the adult genres
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Aspiring authors
- Picture book - preschool-aged children (text only)
- Picture book - primary-aged children (text only)
- Picture book - non-fiction - primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book - younger primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book - older-aged children (text only)
- Fiction writing for young adults
- Writing for the adult genres
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Hatchling authors
- Picture books - preschool or primary-aged children (text only)
- Chapter book (includes Text only for younger primary-aged children, middle-grade children, and young adults)
- Writing for the adult genres

Illustrators
Submit a colour illustration suitable for a book, based on the theme IN MOTION
- Hatchling
- Aspiring
- Published

#CYA2024 #CYAConference #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks #Competition

#CallForPapers: Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book #Transgender #ScienceFiction.

This is a volume of #literary, #film, and #media #theory and #criticism guided by both #TransgenderStudies and #ScienceFictionStudies.

#FilmStudies #MediaStudies #SFF #Academics

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/07/30/transgender-science-fiction

Last weekend to book a writing bootcamp.

The Bootcamp is a day spent with an editor where you will receive feedback on your work in small group sessions, time to work on your manuscripts followed by a progress session where they will give you further feedback, there is also a discussion panel and a Q&A session.


Places for the Bootcamp are strictly limited to four people per group, with each editor working with two groups.

www.cyaconference.com #CYA2023 #CYAConference #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks

13 days to go.

CYA competition for U18s, Aspiring and Published authors and illustrators covering everything from Pre-school picture books to stories for adult readers.

www.cyaconference.com #CYA2023 #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks #competition

Today's preview of our inaugural issue (OUT FEBRUARY 15) comes from an ingenious new #poem by #poet Dave Shortt.

#poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #writer #writing #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #writersofig #literarymagazines #literarymagazine #literaryjournals #literature #litmag #litmags #literary #literaryarts #creativewriting #poetsofmastodon #writersofmastodon

Someone sent this to me earlier today.

Now it is stuck in my head because I apparently never looked at them as I was stuffing them in my mouth.

It's like the winning lottery numbers in that old fortune cookie I threw away years ago all over again. Sigh.

I don't believe I was always so oblivious to details but here I am.

#life #mystery #disregard #author #symbol #books #literary #reading #oreo #cookies #symbols #templar #dan_brown

If you're an author or illustrator and would like to present online at the 2023 CYA #writers and #illustrators Conference in July, you can register your interest at www.cyaconference.com

#CYA2023 #WritersCommunity #author #illustrator #writing #YALit #FictionWriters #NonFiction #Literary #Fiction #RomanceWriters #ThrillerWriters #CrimeWriters #WritingTips #PictureBooks #ChildrensBooks #illustrations #IllustrationArtists #ChildrenIllustrator #JuniorFiction #EarlyReaders #ChapterBooks