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DESPERATE WRITER is a magazine for creatives about art, writing and culture. SHOCKY'S CORNER is for poetry; PEN & PAINT is for writers and artists, FOR THE RECORD is for essays, and LETTERS TO POTENTIAL FRIENDS is literature with a Brazilian twist.

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Overcoming Challenges

I may be the first person who had one essay rejected and another one accepted the same day by the New York Times Modern Love. I don’t know. I didn’t ask. Why remind an editor that one piece didn’t make it through the slush pile, when you ar...

10 days ago
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The Scarlet Daughter!

Dear Desperate Writers,

I’m so excited to share the cover of my debut novel, The Scarlet Daughter, that you are getting two posts in one week, one from the spectacular poet and non-fiction writer Lorna Crozier, and another from me! Those o...

16 days ago
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SAYING WHAT YOU MEAN

Although my mother spread all of my poetry books across the coffee table in her small living room, she was the first to admit that she didn’t understand a thing. For the most part, my poems left her frustrated. More than once she asked me,...

17 days ago
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Good Farmers, Good Books & Good Book Clubs

Dear Desperate Writers,

There’s been a lot in the news about AI and writers. Of course, AI trained on writers’ books without our consent or compensation. Now ,writers are being accused of using AI, books are being cancelled for allegedly u...

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  • Rachel Rose

    Award-winning poet turned award-winning fiction writer. In the best book club in town. Woods walker, ocean swimmer, avid reader. Interested in everything to do with books and those who read and write them.

  • Anne Marie Corrigan

    Writer, poet, bon-vivant

  • Antônio Xerxenesky

    Escritor, professor, tradutor, editor.

  • The Mulligan Method

    I am a novelist, screenwriter, and editor. I also teach creative writing at Uvic Continuing Education in Langford, BC and offer online writing courses at mulliganmethod.ca

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