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BY MATT BELL Author and writing teacher Matt Bell offers a three-part plan to help aspiring novelists finish a manuscript. First is the exploratory phase of discovery and drafting; the second involves structured outlining and rewriting; then, finally

The Claymore Award, sponsored by Killer Nashville, rewards authors of “unpublished English-language manuscripts containing elements of thriller, mystery, crime, or suspense” that are not currently under contract. These elements can also include manus

THE WEBSITE FOR THE 10-YEAR-OLD journal Atticus Review has a lot going on. You can read fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction by contributors from around the world. You can subscribe to “The Weekly Atticus” for short essays and letters penned by t

Over the past five years, I’ve been making a concerted effort to read more Black literature. And I’ve noticed that the work I was encouraged to read in college, from writers like Zora Neale Hurston or Toni Morrison, or even the work that I read in my

When I met mystery writer Rachel Howzell Hall, I was also thrilled to be meeting the woman who brought to the page Elouise Norton, a Black woman detective who lives in Los Angeles. Quite apart from the fact that I really wanted to be friends with Nor

Ashley M. Jones has edited literary magazines, taught at universities, and been a Knight Foundation Fellow. But wait! There’s more: she’s also the founder of the Magic City Poetry Festival, which celebrates Birmingham, Alabama’s poetry scene, and bee

I was a senior in college when I realized I was an editor at heart, not a writer. Fresh off a summer internship at a daily newspaper, I entered the fall semester filled with big ideas about changing the world and smaller ideas about strengthening the

You may have noticed that there are no em dashes in this story. There are, instead, en dashes. The en dash is essentially the same as the em dash. They serve identical grammatical purposes. The only differences between them are length, preference, an

When using an em dash in place of parentheses, use two dashes to offset the clause. Example: Remember in season one of Ted Lasso – tell me you watch Ted Lasso – when Ted says the word “plan” so many times, it loses all meaning? Try offsetting a phras

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