December/January flash fiction challenge ending Midnight 31 January
This is also your last chance to enter our December/January Flash Fiction Challenge and stand a chance to win a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2750 […]
Enter our challenge and stand a chance to win a writing course
All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers the winner a place on our creative writing Coaching Programme: Focus on scenes. It’s a fourteen step programme with your own personal [...]
You can achieve your writing dreams
Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What does every would-be writer need to achieve their dreams? You would probably say: time and space. Yet writers have created great literature in half [...]
Enter our writing challenge to win a literary assessment
Our challenge for December and January involves a monkey wrench, a fit of depression and a first edition of Bleak House. Combine all three as cunningly and naturally as possible […]
And the winner of the August writing challenge is…
Accolades where they’re due We’d like to congratulate the winners of the August competition, which challenged you to write a scene set on or around water. Our winner, who will […]
August Writing Challenge
Your challenge for August is to write a scene set on or around water. That might be a river, the sea, a pond or a swimming pool. It might even, […]
June writing challenge
You’ve got to the end of a journey – literal or metaphorical – and what you discover there is very different from what you anticipated. Write a scene of no […]
May writing challenge
This month’s challenge carries an exceptional prize: three books by members of our Allaboutwriting family, generously contributed by Pan Macmillan, Jacana, and Cactus Rain in the US. The winner [...]
March/April writing challenge winners
Last month, we challenged you to try your hand at memoir, by writing a seminal scene from your lives. The winners of the best two entries will receive a copy […]
January Writing Competition winners
And the winner is… Last month we asked you to write a scene which consists of a real or imagined altercation between two people in a public space. Congratulations to: […]
Writing news and successes, a new writing challenge and a writing tip
2017 is our tenth anniversary year, so we decided to look at what you, our community, have achieved over the years – and we were gobsmacked. Twenty-seven of you have […]
October Writing Challenge and Writing Tip for the month
A story doesn’t consist of a series of unrelated events. Everything that happens is linked causally or psychologically to what came before and what follows. People often forget this, particularly [...]
