The Bumblebee Contest Shortlist
Drumroll, please. Writers and readers and other good folk, it is with great pleasure that we announce the shortlist for the Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest. […]
Happy International Women’s Day
I love our cover art. For me, one of the greatest joys of the magazine is finding and choosing paintings to wrap our words in. […]
Galloping Time, Supporting Systems for the Writing Life
Now and then, a moment arrives, when hardly anybody wants anything from us. Maybe something was cancelled, leaving a serene empty space, or it’s the […]
Adventures in Writing
Endurance is one of the great challenges in our writing careers — holding on with tenacious minds to the idea that we can do this, even though […]
The Magpie Award is Open!
M is for March, and M is for Magpie … which means the 4th annual Magpie Award for Poetry is now open. Earlybird rates save […]
The Real Sting: Bumblebee Contest Longlist
The Bumblebee Flash Fiction Contest: short and sweet stories with a sting. The real sting, though, is choosing between so many excellent entries. The editors […]
Welcome to the Writers’ Café and Centre Stage. Be Prolific, Publish Often, Get Paid.
One of the many reasons we began publishing our literary quarterly Pulp Literature was that there were very few magazines that paid, and many that […]
The Pop-Up Writing Space
We most likely have, each of us, a dedicated writing office space of one kind or another. Here, seated or standing at our own desk, we often […]
The Bumblebee Closes Tomorrow!
In between your chocolates and champagne, don’t forget to send in your sweet and fizzy short stories to the Bumblebee contest, which closes tomorrow at […]
In Praise of Stationery
Maybe it’s the same for you, author: I love stationery stores. Once inside, there comes over me a feeling of pleasant expectancy mixed with the urge to guard […]