Keep it short

When you mention fantasy fiction as a genre, your initial thoughts on what that means are liable to be pretty grand-scale – sweeping court intrigue, powerful and dangerous creatures threatening humani

One of the unexpected outcomes of being a literary agent is that it means I am in the privileged position of knowing exactly how tough it is to forge a career with your pen. As a result, it is always

The Writing Magazine Children’s Book Prize is running again this autumn, and we are looking for outstanding texts from unagented and unpublished authors. We have two categories: picture books and chap

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Mythical country: the fantasy writer tells us about her new novel

This month’s story, ‘The Curious Case of Davidson’s Eyes’ by HG Wells, has a superficially simple premise. But, as we’ll see, that premise throws up a lot of conundrums in the course of the narrative.