One of our bestselling issues is back again, the Spring Competition Guide, so get your copy before it sells out!

Get your exclusive Competition Guide 

• Details of over 500 competitions to enter in 2019 with over £800,000 to be won in writing prizes

• A sneak peek at the Writing Magazine competition themes for the months ahead

• Read winning entries from past competitions, you could be next!

Inside the April issue...

Interviews and profiles

• STAR inteview with Spiderwick Chronicles creator Holly Black, who explains how she writes kick-ass YA fantasy 

• Learn from the life and career of fantasy overlord JRR Tolkien

• Falconer, artist and author Ben Crane outlines his fascinating daily routine, structured to suit his Asperger’s

• Meet debut thriller author Fiona Erskine

Writing life 

• Why writing is always a team effort

• What you need to know about changes to tax law

• Author experience: Quick and easy self-publishing

Watch and Learn

• How studying films will benefit your writing, whatever your genre

• We pick our top ten films about writers

• How to create drama

Fiction

• How to conjure the right atmosphere for your scary stories

• Celebrity Under the Microscope: Go down the rabbit hole as we analyse the opening of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 

Children’s: Learn how to develop your story and voice to hook readers, agents and publishers