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- How To Write Any Story - Why Pacing Is Everything video with Hilary Layne
- AUGUST 29: Elevate Your Stories Using The Art Of Pacing, with Editor-In-Chief of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Tristan Evarts—registration open
- Markets and contests with submissions open or opening soon
- Coming in August: Playful Storytelling workshop, with co-instructors, award-winning authors C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez.
- Exciting contest judged by Kim Stanley Robinson open for submissions.
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Should you avoid formulas when writing a story? In this video, author and popular YouTuber, Hilary Layne, talks about why she thinks you should avoid formulas and what you should do instead to construct a good plot.
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While we're on hiatus for July, we're also hard at work scheduling workshops for August. August 29 we're excited to bring Editor-In-Chief of Utopia Science Fiction Magazine to the Reach Your Apex community. Register for his pacing workshop today and get $10 off using coupon code AOPNL10.
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Markets and Contests
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Many thanks to Scribophile for sponsoring this week's open submissions. Scribophile is a free welcoming community of writers where you're guaranteed to get solid critiques on your work. You can also get 20% off your first purchase using coupon code APEX20.
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- 🥾 MudRoom is open to submissions of poetry, short fiction, and personal essays. Send them up to 6,000 words of prose writing or up to five poems before July 25th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🌎 Worldsmyths is looking for dark fantasy short stories and novelettes. Send them work between 2,000 and 15,000 words before July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📝 Penumbric is looking for speculative fiction and poetry as well as graphics, animation, and music. Send them short stories of up to 10,000 words or up to five poems. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- ❤️🔥 Flame Tree Publishing is looking for short stories for their upcoming romantasy anthologies. Send them stories between 2,000 and 4,000 words before July 20th. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 📰 Soul Poetry, Prose & Arts Magazine is open to submissions of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Send them prose writing of up to 2,000 words, or up to four poems, before July 30th. No submissions fee!
- 🥄 Spoon Knife is open to submissions of written work on the theme of “Polarities”. Send them stories, essays, poems, or anything in between of up to 10,000 words before *July 31st**. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
- 🌔 MoonLit Getaway is open to submissions of poetry and short fiction. Send them stories of up to 2,500 words or up to eight poems in any style. No submissions fee!
- 🌚 Midnight Ink is looking for writing “centered around the spooky and haunting”. Send them up to 10,000 words of prose writing or up to five poems. No submissions fee!
- 🦎 The Amphibian Literary and Art Journal is open to submissions of poetry and short fiction. Send them stories of up to 2,000 words, or up to three poems. No submissions fee!
- 🏔️ Jade & Compass is open to submissions of short fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry on the theme of “True North”. Send them up to 1,500 words of prose writing or five pages of poems before July 29th. No submissions fee!
- 📜 Dear Reader is open to submissions of poetry, prose poetry, and flash fiction of up to 500 words. No submissions fee!
- 🌲 Rock Salt Journal is a magazine that celebrates the New England aesthetic, although they accept submissions worldwide. They’re looking for fiction and creative nonfiction of any length until July 31st. No submissions fee!
- 🧟♀️ Critical Blast Publishing is compiling their upcoming anthology, More Monsters Next Door. They’re looking for short stories about classic monsters in modern settings. Send them between 2,500 and 10,000 words before July 31st. No submissions fee! 💰Paying market!💰
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Coming Soon
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Coming in August, Playful Storytelling with award-winning authors C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez.
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Explore exciting ways for your creativity and writing skills to find expression in 21st-century genres. Award-winning writers C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez walk you through writing across the continuum: fiction, poetry, graphic novels, roleplaying games, and more. Short exercises centering solid worldbuilding and vigorous language provide delightful, playful tools for your writer's toolbox. The workshop is open to writers of all levels of experience.
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Stay tuned for day, time and full details!
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is launching a short fiction contest called “Write Before Midnight," which will be judged by acclaimed American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. Prizes are $3,000 for first place, with $500 each to four runners-up. Stories can be any length up to 7,000 words. The deadline is September 30, 2025.
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