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Here's two. What's in your toolbox?

Most people on here concentrate on novels tho we do work on FF, short stories and poetry esp for competitions. So I thought a thread where people can bring competitions or what they use in writing short stories.

https://bathnovelaward.co.uk/the-bath-novel-award-international-writing-prize/ I am loosely defining literary as non genre here-but have a look at previous winners. If you are writing similarly - then this is worth taking a swing at.

And a follow on.

To me genre is just today's pulp fiction so if you want to sell it.....

BUT, BUT, IT"S HAARRDDDD TO DO WELL. This is the other thing I have a real problem with in first drafts.

A helpful short:

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You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it. Faith Ringgold