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A tremor, a defect, a rupture in the digital surface... The Lit’s open call is live for your creative work around the theme of ‘Glitch’.

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Writer Swarnim Agrawal reflects on the concept of ‘home’, after our creative journaling workshop with Hannah Bevan.

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A kaleidoscope of creative adventures, where you’ll be invited to feast your senses on words, wine, drawing, and much more.

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Want your reading to take you beyond borders, tread over perimeters and stretch across invisible lines? Look no further. This month’s free resource is a curated global reading list, with recommendations from our shiny new editorial board and the Read to Impact community.

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The launch of Exeter's first ever Art Book Fair.

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What is Black Britain? Poet Roger Robinson and writer-photographer Johny Pitts set out to answer this question in Home is Not a Place, a new book described as “Beautiful, haunting, and thought-provoking” by Bernardine Evaristo. We were lucky enough to catch these formidable artists at Exeter’s Quay, discussing the title.

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We are delighted to announce the appointment of The Literary Platform's inaugural Editorial and Innovation Board.

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Whether you’re a publisher, writer, or reader, chances are that your appreciation of words will be affected by how they appear on the page. Graphics, typography and page furniture all play a part. Here’s a very quick guide to editorial design...

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We're looking to bolster our team by establishing an editorial board for The Lit. Are you interested in helping to shape the output of our literary journal? Then read on.

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Want to see your work in Issue 5 of our literary journal, The Lit? We want your short fiction, creative nonfiction and visual responses around the theme of Small Town Stories.

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For this month’s writing resource we’ve put together a guide to writing about climate change, following COP27, seen by some as a cop out...

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We’re building a new cross-Atlantic issue of The Lit! Editors and illustrators, we want to hear from you…

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Want to know how to land a literary agent? Writer and mentee on our Lit:Up 2020 program, April Roach, tells us about her journey to securing representation as a novelist.

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Whether you’re an aspiring publisher or a budding writer, copy editing is an important stage of the publishing process. Here’s a downloadable resource for members of The Lit Salon, with information, tips, and some practical exercises for editing copy.

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Wondering what you can get out of an MA in Publishing? Here are five key insights from Imogen Philips, who graduates this year from the MA Publishing course at University of Exeter.

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Join writer and poet Louisa Adjoa Parker for a creative writing session held in Devon’s Thelma Hulbert Gallery, in collaboration with The Lit Platform

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Months ago, as Russian forces invaded Ukraine, we asked poets, writers and thinkers to share their writing around the crisis. This was our 'Borderline' open call, published in The Lit Issue 4. As the situation in Ukraine battles on, we have chosen to publish further responses to our Borderline open call, to platform voices responding to - and those living on - the front line of war. Four pieces of poetry have been selected, by poets from Canada to Kyiv, writing about the songs of nightingales to theological visions.

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A literary festival celebrating contemporary literature and thought from Africa and the African diaspora

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The world can feel overwhelming in dark times like these, and the individual powerless. At The Literary Platform, we stand with the people of Ukraine. Now, more than ever, we need to hear the voices of those affected by war.

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A boundary, a connector, an edge. The Lit’s open call is live for your short fiction and poetry around the theme of 'lines'.

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