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Mar 15

Tackling Surrealism

A fantastic way to be more adventurous in your writing is to try your hand at radical literary and artistic movements by following their principles and engaging in decades of creative conversation. Surrealism is a movement which has remained fresh and ever-evolving, and has always been politically and culturally subversive…

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Mar 2

Art Tips — Creating from Nature

In this week’s blog post, I’ll be exploring ways in which the natural world might be able to inspire you in your art. Many of you might already paint, draw or create other forms of art using the natural world and all within it as inspiration, but hopefully you might…

Spellbinder Magazine

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Spellbinder Magazine

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Feb 26

Winter 2023 — Drama

‘The set is meant to look like a PATH IN THE WOODS, very gothic and dismal.’ And with that, I was hooked. ‘Donkey Skin: A Monologue’ by Carly Chandler was a fantastical monologue from the point of view of ‘Donkey Skin’, a young woman running away from home in the…

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Feb 19

Winter 2023 — Art

‘She’s Got Mirth but I Got Bravado’ — Alejandro Gonzalez

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Feb 17

Winter 2023 — Non-fiction

Alone with a Book is an excellent piece of creative nonfiction which we are very proud to have published in the Winter 2023 Issue of Spellbinder. Overall, Alone with a Book is really lovely, well-written and funny, but it doesn’t stop there. In this piece, the author Stephanie Shi beautifully…

Spellbinder Magazine

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Spellbinder Magazine

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Feb 5

Winter 2023 — Fiction

Like Sardines by Douglas Jern The passenger layer now reached the tops of the seat backs, and newcomers had to climb up it to get inside, and climb it they did. Nothing seemed to faze them. …

Spellbinder Magazine

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Spellbinder Magazine

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Feb 1

Winter 2023 — Poetry

‘A Dragon Curled Around My Heart’ by Quinn Murphy ‘In my chest, a dragon curls, Around my beating heart. To guard it from the many Who would see it pulled apart.’ Quinn Murphy’s poem ‘A Dragon Curled Around My Heart’ was the opening piece for Spellbinder’s Winter 2023 Issue. It…

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Jan 24

Winter Prompts for Re-writing Classics

Spellbinder submissions for the Spring 2023 Issue (publ. April 2023) are open until February 14th. We have shared some prompts on our social media channels during the past week to boost your creativity and imagination while submissions are open. The prompts we posted during this submission window are under the…

Spellbinder Magazine

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Spellbinder Magazine

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Dec 23, 2022

A Guide to Photography Galleries

In April 2021, I provided a useful list of world-famous galleries for visual artists searching for some inspiration, but it occurs to me that many of these fantastic museums are painting and sculpture focused and therefore, the photographers amongst you may be wishing for something a little bit more photography…

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Dec 4, 2022

Writing Tips — Editing

In previous blog posts I have spent quite a lot of time looking at ways in which you can start writing. Today I thought I would do something a little different, and look at the art of what you do once you have finished writing: editing. In my own writing…

Spellbinder Magazine

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Spellbinder Magazine

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