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Reignite your creative spark Big opportunities and competitions BUY PRINT BUY DIGITAL  • SUBSCRIBERS! Feature in Writing Magazine and on Writers Online. WRITERS' GROUPS! Share your news and attract new members. Send us details now • Funny women could win a £5,000 publishing contract in the second year of the Comedy Women in Print Prize • Celebrate the work of the Red Cross for your chance to win $3,000 in the Hektoen International Writing Contest   • Win £1,000 in the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open Competition • Inspirational fiction and non-fiction is welcome at Harper Inspire • If you have a record of publication, don't miss the world's richest single short story prize, The Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award • Closing date 6 Dec in the €2,000 Strokestown International Poetry Prize • Don't forget, there are cash prizes and publication for winners every month in Writing Magazine competitions. Essential writing advice   • Do you believe in writer's block? Wherever you stand, it never hurts to reignite your creative spark • Get your dialogue just right with our guide to writing realistic speech and laying it out correctly   • Why write ghost stories? We explain the haunting pull of the supernatural • Author experience: 'how writing helped my mental health' The perfect winter warmer  The clocks have turned back, the heating is on and your fluffy socks have made a return, it’s the perfect time to enjoy being indoors and work on your writing with a creative writing course. From fiction, to poetry, short stories and writing for children, all of our courses are tailored to suit your needs with a professional tutor at hand (via email) to help you successfully complete each assignment to your absolute best! Ready to start something new? Take a look at our courses and tutors today 👇 VIEW COURSES FOLLOW US! Email: webhelp@warnersgroup.co.uk  /  subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk (include your name & postcode) Tel: 01778 392482, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat and Bank Holidays 9am-5pm Writers Online is brought to you by Warners Group Publications The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs. PE10 9PH. Registered in England: 2572212

Plus 10 tips on how to be a successful writer Big opportunities, HUGE Prizes BUY PRINT BUY DIGITAL • Unpublished short stories by writers in the Commonwealth could win £2,500 in each of six regions, and £5,000 overall in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize • Past winners have gone on to publication in the Lucy Cavendish College Fiction Prize • Poems and short stories on the theme 'new world' are wanted for the Elmbridge Literary Competition • SUBSCRIBERS! Feature in Writing Magazine and on Writers Online. WRITERS' GROUPS! Share your news and attract new members. Send us details now • Books and stories with 'cinematic potential' could win up to $1,000 and be seen by Hollywood insiders in Screencraft's competitions • First prize is £1,000 in Café Writers Poetry Competition • First prize is £1,000 in the Acumen Poetry Prize • Don't forget, there are cash prizes and publication for winners every month in Writing Magazine competitions. Essential writing advice • How to make time for your writing • Back to Basics: when to use which and when to use that • 6 reasons you need to attend a writing workshop • Want to be a successful writer? 10 tips • What makes a good sentence? Accidental Traveller by Raphael Wilkins Highly Commended in the Words for the Wounded International Independent Author Book Award 2017, after decades of going nowhere, educationist Raphael Wilkins stumbled into life-changing opportunities for global travel. This book tells that story, from Delhi to Denver, Sudan to Singapore. Reviewers say... ‘(This) is hands down one of the most riveting and well-crafted books I’ve read in a long time!  I was completely drawn in from the opening pages, and absolutely loved the author’s description of the different places…a wonderful and eye-opening escape from my boring week-end.’ 'The writing is beautiful, very clean narrative…’  ORDER NOW FOLLOW US! Email: webhelp@warnersgroup.co.uk  /  subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk (include your name & postcode) Tel: 01778 392482, Mon-Fri 8am-6pm, Sat and Bank Holidays 9am-5pm Writers Online is brought to you by Warners Group Publications The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincs. PE10 9PH. Registered in England: 2572212