Competition
Enter our new Poetry Writers' Yearbook competition, with copies of the book for the winners.
There's also an article from the book - 'a useful and practical guide to the fast-growing world of the poetry ezine and epoetry' - (see below).
Early entries for the 2007 Diagram Prize
Including How to Write a How to Write Book (for those self help fanatics) andIf You Want Closure in Your Relationship, Start with Your Legs.
Poetry Writers' Yearbook
The new 2008 edition of this essential book for poets gives detailed listings of publishing companies, events and competitions, and helps you to survive and thrive as a poet.
The Internet provides poets with an exciting new outlet for their poetry. with the publisher's permission we are reprinting an excellent article from the new edition.
Kostas Hrisos, founder and editor of poetry ezine, Interpoetry, provides a useful and practical guide to the fast-growing world of the poetry ezine and epoetry.
Review of The Handbook of Creative Writing
Our reviewer concluded on this ambitious book:
'This is a serious handbook for people who approach the business of writing in a particular fashion, for whom simply ‘doing’ isn’t quite enough; it’s for people who need to know ‘why’ as well as ‘how’. On that basis, I have no hesitation in recommending it.'
An Editor's Advice
This new series is based on the advice Maureen Kincaid Speller
a reviewer, writer, editor and former librarian, is our book reviewer and also works for WritersServices as a freelance editor., a long-serving WritersServices freelance editor, has given writers over the years. It deals with the most common problems she has encountered in the fiction manuscripts which cross her desk.
The series covers Dialogue, Doing further drafts, genre writing, planning, points of view, autobiography and presentation.
An Editor's Advice 1: on Dialogue
An Editor's Advice 2: on doing further drafts
An Editor's Advice 3: on genre writing
An Editor's Advice 4: on planning
An Editor's Advice 5: on points of view
An Editor's Advice 6: on autobiography
An Editor's Advice 7: on presentation
