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Issue 7: Waiting (Call for Submissions)

Hot off the heels of our Issue 6 publication, The Purple Breakfast Review is back! Issue 7 is on the theme of ‘Waiting’ and submissions are open now!  We are accepting all types of writing (poetry, prose, creative non-fiction, scripts etc) so send us your work for a chance to be published in PBR7 (check…

BIG 5th Birthday Competition: Siblings CLOSED

*NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: Closing at 11.59pm on Friday 15th June 2018* To mark our BIG 5th Birthday and ‘Siblings Day’ on Tuesday 10th April 2018, The Student Wordsmith is inviting you to submit a sequence of poems on this topic in a brand-new competition! Send us a sequence of up to 6 poems for the…

Issue 6: Rebirth and Growth (Call for Submissions) CLOSED

*CLOSED* *NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE: Closing at 11.59pm on Monday 11th June 2018* The Student Wordsmith returns with its brand-new call for submissions on the theme of ‘Rebirth and Growth’. Send us your writing (prose, poetry, script) and / or artwork for the chance to be published in Issue 6 of our Creative Writing journal, The…

‘Time to Talk’: Mental Wellbeing Competition

Congratulations to the winner of our 'Time to Talk' competition, Jennifer Waring! 

Jennifer's poem, 'Therapy', cleverly explores the topic of mental health through the extended metaphor of the humble onion. She plays with sound elegantly, deploying internal and imperfect rhymes throughout, and the extensive vocabulary and scientific language used throughout this piece is impressive.

We look forward to sharing your writing with our Wordsmith viewers later this week and to offering you your FREE two hours of mentoring in due course.