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 […]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 [...]