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Elena over at
With Extra Pulp (one of double-plus favourite writing blogs) is hosting an awesome contest at the moment, with prizes galore. All you have to do is answer her question of which you would rather be:
Would you rather be
a) A half-titanium cyborg with intimacy issues?
b) a grizzly-faced poet whose words land [...]
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Soundzine is a
literary e-zine that features poetry and prose from around the world accompanied by spoken recordings of each piece by the author or a voice actor, and artwork specifically chosen by an artistic director to complement the imagery present in the piece.
Soundzine is now up to its tenth issue, and [...]
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Hi all and
welcome to yet another edition of Untangling the Web. In this post I’ll be discussing the mammoth Google Books deal, followed by a rant encompassing many people’s opinion on literary prizes, and finally some useful links for the literature-inclined. As always, thanks go to my main sources of links: [...]
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Hello all and
welcome to the second edition of ‘Untangling The Web’! UtW’s aim is to become a semi-regular blog built to provide you with some of the trending topics across the Internet that relate to writing and publishing. Hopefully in doing so we’ll be able to generate some discussion and opinions about [...]
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You may have
read about the 17-year-old German author who recently admitted to pulling large chunks of unedited text from another author’s book. Helenne Hegemann’s book, entitled Axolotl Roadkill, in addition to being a bestseller, has also been nominated for a distinguished prize (Google Translated from German to English). This wouldn’t be [...]