Writing Magazine

Character portrait

For the first outing of WM’s exciting new slot for creative writing submissions, we asked for fiction and poetry inspired by Ian Ayris’s brilliant three-part series on character and voice (WM Feb-April). Our inbox has been flooded with submissions and we’ve been thrilled to see the high quality of work that you’ve sent us. Picking pieces to showcase has been a hard task, but we’re delighted to present our selections!

Alan Brett; Debbie Casey; Gerard Cole; Catherine Davis; Manjit Dhillon; Ellen Evers; Sue Gregory; Wendy Hall; Sheena Hussain; Lesley Mason; Sue Moules; Peter Richardson; Helen Spiers; Liz

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