'Writes' Magazine
'Writes' the magazine of The Global Writers Forum is published on the last day of each month. Submissions which should conform to the below 'Style Guidelines' should reach the editor by the first day of that month for inclusion.
Style Guidelines
All submissions should conform to standard British grammatical usage in the following format currently adopted as the Forum 'House Style':
Font
Font: Calibri
Size: 12 pt
Line Spacing: 1.5
Speech Marks
Note: Speech Marks: We use the standard British usage of single speech marks! for everything except children's works, quotations within the dialogue and news articles which are all double. See 'Writes' articles for more detailed guidance.
Submissions
Submissions not conforming to the house style may be delayed due to the need to edit them! (Please do your very best: it is very time consuming for the editor otherwise!)
Writes Issue 20 - 24th May 2023 - Our Spring '23 Edition containing many of the subjects from our recent Zoom sessions and April conference.
Click here to download a copy of Issue 20
(PDF File - Size 5.6Mb)
Previous Editions:
Writes Issue 19 - December 2022 - Christmas Edition
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(Word doc - Size 6.4Mb)
Writes Issue 18 - March, April, May 2021 (Produced June 2021)
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Writes Issue 17 - February 2021
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Writes Issue 16 - January 2021
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Writes Issue 15 - December 2020 - Christmas Edition
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Writes Issue 14 - November 2020
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Writes Issue 13 - September & October 2020
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Writes Issue 12 - August 2020
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Writes Issue 11 - July 2020 - the Eighth and final Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 10 - June 2020 - the Seventh Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 9 - May 19th 2020 - the Sixth Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 8 - May 6th 2020 - the Fifth Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 7 - April 28th 2020 - the Fourth Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 6 - April 16th 2020 - the Third Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 5 - April 2nd 2020 - the Second Covid Edition
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Writes Issue 4 - The first Covid Edition 2020
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Writes Issue 3 - Christmas 2019 Edition
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Writes Issues 1 & 2 combined - Initially published in 2019.
Click here to download this slightly updated version of Writes 1 &2
(April 2023) (This will download a 1mb PDF)