For Writers - Geoff Palmer - Award-Winning Author

Four publishing lessons in four minutes

In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]

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Ian Rankin is author of 21 Inspector Rebus novels along with 20 others. He’s also written plays, graphic novels, short[…]

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There’s still a few weeks left to enter the Sixth Annual Mogford Food & Drink Short Story Prize. The prize[…]

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The winner of the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction Award will be announced tomorrow (30 November). The purpose[…]

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Annie Proulx (pronounced “proo”) was born in 1935, but her first novel wasn’t published until 1992. That novel, Postcards, won[…]

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Razors aren’t just for shaving. In philosophy, a razor is a rule of thumb that allows for the elimination (the[…]

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After 21 years of MMP elections, I’m surprised at the number of people who don’t really understand the options available[…]

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Fifteen more famously rejected writers who persevered. Can you identify who, and in some cases, what book, got rejected? (You’ll[…]

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Rejection slips are part of a writer’s landscape. All authors get them at one time or another, and they usually[…]

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“In my world, the wrong-er something feels, the right-er it is. So to waste this much time on something this[…]

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