#Literary

E. Kay Burroughs

EKayTBC

Good Morning!This thread contains some creative outlets and places for you to pursue your passion! Do some research and see if any of these opportunities fit in with your interests.

Paul Crenshaw

PaulCrenstorm

How many of you have literary tattoos? Guess I should do this then, since so many have responded. (Not new. Old pic). Thanks for stopping by to share your disapproval.

Julie Phillips

jcfphillips

Fine piece by @ruth_franklin on biography and who gets access. A couple of thoughts: after my last book was published I made pitches to do the biographies of two prominent

Ottavia Paluch

OttaviaPaluch

There's this internal consensus that teen writers are only awesome if they have work published in really selective and hard-to-get-into litmags as a teen. And as someone who does...not have

Sam Byers

byers90

As far as I can see at this point, literary prizes are in a mess, and a lot of the mess comes from the fact that they still insist on

Aaron Hanlon

AaronRHanlon

The sentence 'Literary study can't be scientific' would seem to contain a paradox: If not scientific then why a form of *study*? Would you propose a way out? What would

John Boyne 📚

john_boyne

This year marks 20 years since I started publishing novels & 27 years since I started publishing short stories. A long time! So I wrote 10 TIPS TO ACHIEVE LONGEVITY

Tom Cho 曹勵善

tom_cho

I was recently asked on Twitter why I feel that "Show, don't tell" was poor writing advice that had been given to me. I figured it might be helpful to

Sham e Awadh

cyber_idiaz

#EidMubarak Reminded of #MunshiPremchand's short story Eidgah today. Brilliantly evocative, powerful & even more relevant today. Eidgah appeared in Urdu in 'Chand' mag. in 1933 & has parallels with

Sam Byers

byers90

“Maybe something by Hornby.” Going to use this in all literary conversation from now on. Regardless of what anyone is saying, I will place my chin in my hand and

Carlo The Compost Guy

TrueCarloHizon

I just woke up to a scary nightmare.I was at school out side the corridor when I saw some sort of a movable bulletin board from the other side from

Irish Whiskey Barry

irishwhiskeybc

Irish Twitter, help me compile a list of the best pubs in Ireland that are special and worth a detour. The kind you'd send a good friend to.I'll start: The

Ikhide R. Ikheloa

ikhide

It is not correct that young Africans do not read much. They actually tend to be very voracious readers, reading the equivalent of several chapters daily on social media and

Shuja Haider

shujaxhaider

I rarely read contemporary fiction but I suddenly have time on my hands. I would like to read a book, let's say written in the past 10 years, that is

Xeni “4 Seasons Total Landscaping” Jardin

xeni

News coming not too far off in the future on Jeffrey Epstein story. It’s hard to know what timing is anymore because what is time? But the story isn’t dead

Jennifer Hamilton

bicycleuser

I want to seed a differently geared discussion about the purpose of university off the back of this thread. I teach lit studies and write in academic and non-academic fora.