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    Children Missing Out On Bedtime Stories

    A new survey from Oxford University Press of 300 teachers has discovered that more than half believe many children in their classes have never been read a bedtime story.

    The lack of storytelling at home is damaging children’s writing abilities, the researchers believe. Pie Corbett, literary expert and former primary head teacher, said: ”To develop [...]

Competitions

Room Magazine Award

This is a contest for all my female writers. Room invites you to participate in our 2010 Annual Fiction, Poetry, ...

2010 Codhill Press Poetry Chapbook Award

The competition is open to any poet who writes in English. Previously published poems with proper acknowledgment are acceptable. ...

Bristol Short Story Competion

The 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize is now open. The competition is open to all, whether UK or non-UK based. [ad#336-left]Stories ...

Leaf Books Wales Competition

Leaf Books invites you to submit writing on the theme of Wales. Perhaps a retelling of the Mabinogion, a comment ...

Writers And Artists Year Book Competition

For published and aspiring writers alike – enter the Writers’ & Artists’ 2010 short story competition and you could win: a ...

Writting Articles/tips

Learn From The Masters

If we are going to learn to craft words then it is important that we read how the masters of the art wrote. How they build up description and atmosphere in their work. Take one small sentence and see what can be achieved by a master.

Here is what I might write: ‘Lily, was kept [...]

Book Reviews

Imagine This

Imagine This is a book that does more than just tell a story; it takes the reader on a voyage of discovery.

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Abandoned by her father and separated from her brother, Lola must adjust to living without the basic necessities, where a drink of water entails a six-mile trek to the bushes. Unable to [...]

Classic Stories & Poetry

The Dead

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Along with Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and others, Joyce was a key figure in the development of the modernist novel.

Over the past three [...]

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