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“ "August is the border between Summer and Autumn" - Tove Jansson” – One Perfect Sentence Is Open Now!
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Self-Promotion & Self-Publishing for Beginners
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Subtext
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July Flash Club
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Fanfare! Instead of today's Pop-Up Submissions...!
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AgentPete
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39 Writing Contests in July 2019 - No entry fees
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Reading as a Writer
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RK Wallis
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27 Calls for Submissions in July 2019 - Paying markets
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Erica Verrillo
Erica Verrillo
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Eerie Mood Music
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Paul Whybrow
Nikky Lee
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News Submerging Writer Fellowship (SWF) for dedicated writers who feel left behind, down on their luck, and far from emerging.
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Quotation marks and names
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Real Books Have Curves
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I came here to drink milk and write words
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June Flash Club - take part, enjoy all the various entries, vote.
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Eye-Catching or Tasteless?
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News A Clever Way of Encouraging Reading
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The Glassblower's Moll
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34 Fabulous Writing Conferences in July 2019
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Erica Verrillo
Erica Verrillo
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List of Twitter Pitching contests (2019) - Updated 29 July
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RK Wallis
Robert M Derry
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Inspired or intimidated?
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Help Please! On the value of publishing credits and finding representation
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Taylor W. S.
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Teach the kids to tell tales
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Where Is My Competition, Where Is My Prize?
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Question re: middle grade
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Fanfare! Flash Fiction....
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Book Cave
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Paul Whybrow
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An agent’s rant
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Your declared favourites
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Reasons to be Optimistic
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Fanfare! New book Conundrum published!
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Fast & Slow Beginnings
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Fanfare! A Shout out for the Flash Club. Literary Mag publishing my flash fiction :)
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Rachel Caldecott
Rachel Caldecott
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Publishing Scams
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Taylor W. S.
Taylor W. S.
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Red Door Publishing.com -- what do we think?
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Taylor W. S.
Taylor W. S.
Jay Aitch
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Indie Publishing Distributors
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Taylor W. S.
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Predatory Publishers
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TED Talk "The hilarious art of book design"
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New in Litopia Town
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The nebulous nature of language
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Rich.
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Calculating the weight of your fantasy creature
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Barbara
Barbara
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10 Speculative Magazines Accepting Submissions NOW - Paying markets
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Nick S
Nick S
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Sea-shore
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Newbie Alert!
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Sea-shore
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Fanfare! The Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2019
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AgentPete
AgentPete
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This....
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Craft Chat CRAFT CHAT: Dialogue - Part Two
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Hello!
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Geoff
Geoff
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Try-Outs for Pop-Up Submissions?
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