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In our jam-packed April issue:

• One of our biggest issues of the year, the April Competition Supplement, with detailed listings of competitions throughout the rest of 2016, plus a sneak peek at the WM competition programme.

• Star interview with TV writer Sally Wainwright, creator of Happy Valley and Last Tango

• Commemorating the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth and the launch of a special Brontë-themed short story competition.

• Featured authors include new author Ayisha Malik, CJ Skuse on her writing day, and HG Wells’ whose writing goes Under the Microscope.

• How to win writing competitions

• Why, and how, you update the writer’s go-to grammar guide, the classic Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage

• Article writing back to basics, how to structure an article

• Short stories masterclass – we explore some classics to illustrate techniques of flashback

• Crime: what defines modern crime writing?

• Children's: how to write fantasy for children