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  This is your last chance to enter our June/July Flash Fiction Challenge and stand a chance to win a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2900 / £ 170 or a voucher to the [...]

  This is your last chance to enter our February/March Flash Fiction Challenge and stand a chance to win a literary assessment on 5000 words of writing worth R 2900 / £ 170 or a voucher to [...]

  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 / £ 150 or a [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers a gift voucher worth R1000, to be redeemed against any of our courses or programmes from our flagship online Creative Writing Course to our [...]

We have invited the finalists onto the stage, we’ve examined them carefully as they paraded their virtues and their finery, and we have come to our decision. Yes, the winner and runners-up of our [...]

There’s a paradox to writing: it is at once an intensely solitary activity, and at the same time is dependent on the good opinion of a vast community of readers. And while, necessarily, [...]

All About Writing’s latest writing challenge offers our most generous prize yet: a place on our brand-new online course, the Creative Writing Day by Day coaching programme, worth R2250, which [...]

We had a bumper crop of excellent entries for our tenth anniversary challenge – and they kept on tumbling in until the very last moment, just minutes before deadline. In fact, our winning entry [...]

  Welcome to this month’s newsletter! What we’ve been doing with you for the past ten years is talking to you about the stories you wish to tell. Life consists of “one damned thing [...]

All About Writing celebrated its tenth anniversary in Venice, the city which most symbolises how far we’ve come. We thought it fitting to take inspiration from the place and the event for our [...]

Write a scene which includes reference both to a tenth anniversary and to Venice. You could choose to set it in Venice, or mention it in conversation. Your characters might be in the process of [...]