Can you write a winning story?

Here’s another chance to enter our short story competition with thriller writer Paula Hawkins. Get your entries in by 27 October

Every autumn we run the Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize, with both picture book and chapter book categories. And it’s time for the submission window to open again! This autumn in the picture bo

Take a step back in time in the studio of Princetown Press, where Jon Palmer and Emma Hogbin are determined to keep alive the endangered letterpress heritage craft

Emma is lonely and missing her old life – could the kindness of a new neighbour help her embrace a fresh start?

We tend to imagine our literary icons in ivory towers – poised, thoughtful, wrapped in something muted and cashmere, tapping away at sleek laptops. Perhaps it’s how you picture yourself when attemptin

Novels, for me, have come from somewhere I wasn’t looking. In my twenties I was carrying an idea about a woman wandering around Ireland on a quest she didn’t understand and I sat in the Reading Room o