2024-06-04 08:00:15 What inspired you to start writing? When I was a kid, I loved episodic fantasy adventures like Dungeons and Dragons (which I still play to this day) and the Deltora Quest book series. These experiences inspired me…
2024-06-03 08:00:12 What inspired you to start writing? Being able to realize the worlds and people in my head. Books always played a huge part in my childhood and I grew up in a place where imagination wasn’t really encouraged,…
2024-06-02 08:00:10 What inspired you to start writing? I was a lover of horror at a very young age (we’re talking like two years old and I was already obsessed with monsters). I was reading by age three, and…
2024-06-01 08:03:44 LGBTQ+ — B Stands for Bisexual By Angel Leigh McCoy Our job as fiction writers requires us to step into the hearts, minds, and bodies of other people. For this reason, writers are some of the most…
2024-05-28 05:05:29 Short-Story Review by Lee Murray “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (a short story by Christa Carmen, published in In Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited by Mark Matthews Plot Summary: In Christa…
2024-05-21 08:00:19 What inspired you to start writing? I’ve been writing stories since I could write and never stopped, basically. I just got around to actually learning how to revise and submit things to publishing places eventually, but it’s…
2024-05-21 04:13:34 What inspired you to start writing? I started to write fiction in 2018. I had moved to a small town. My first drafts of the Nanowrimo novel experiment were cathartic and healing. I wrote my maternal grandmother…
2024-05-15 08:00:36 What inspired you to start writing? Drawing gives me carpal tunnel, so I must externalize my thoughts through other mediums. More importantly, I was first inspired by great stories that kept me reading till the sun came…
2024-05-15 08:00:32 By Tom Joyce Think it’s difficult to self-edit, or to create characters? Try writing a satisfying narrative that clocks in at three minutes. Or standing in front of a roomful of strangers and convincing them you’re somebody…
2024-05-15 06:12:33 2024 FINALISTS (in alphabetical order) 13th Night Director: Benjamin Percy Writer: Benjamin Percy UNITED STATES / 2024 / 14:32 A father will do anything to save his daughter. Anything. Alicia Director: Tony…