The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 16 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Entry

While talent might determine the quality of the writing, and many of our Talers have these in buckets, the basic skill is actually a result of something more mundane: consistent practice.

“Deficiency Notice” presents the daily life of an 11-year-old boy who is speech-impaired

I'm not sure when I realised we'd met before. At first, you were just the elderly man seen  pottering around our communal rooftop.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 11 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Change

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 10 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Puzzle

While Canada, and now some programs in the UK, have also started offering the degree, it is in the United States that it is most common and rigorous.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 9 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Little

The virtual creative writing summer camp will take place from July 8 to 21, 2023. Applications are due by April 21.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 5 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Remember

The latest bent in Jhumpa Lahiri's decades-long foray into Italian life and literature

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 2 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Candle.

Watch this print space for the Talespeople's weekly reflections on creative writing.

The top selections in poetry, flash fiction and artwork for Day 1 of the Sehri Tales challenge; prompt: Begin

Sehri Tales has established itself as a Ramadan tradition for writers in Bangladesh. The rules are simple: each night at midnight, for the entire month leading up to Eid-ul-Fitr, Ahmad shares a prompt, and participants have until 6 AM (sunrise) to write original poetry, flash fiction, or create unique art, and then share it online with the hashtag #sehritales2023.

Star Literature will be hosting a short story reading session moderated by Sarah Anjum Bari, the Books and Literary Editor of The Daily Star, on Friday at 4PM.

Professor Islam sheds light on English writing in Bangladesh, its future, and the influence of the language movement on the Bangladeshi psyche.

This means you can submit a manuscript on your own, without a literary agent.

If you are reaching out to an agent, go and find out exactly what sort of work that agent publishes. Also, think in terms of what would differentiate your work with the work of 39 other authors.

The workshops were the sessions I’d look forward to. Someone actually reading your work, studying it, telling you what you do well, telling you what you can improve on, all phrased constructively (“I like this!” was a banned phrase). If you’re pursuing writing, workshopping—on some level or another—is what you’ll need.