I am Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan, a final-year medical student, and a speculative poet.Everyone who knows about the Nigerian University system must have known about the ongoing industrial strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities which has lasted for more than three(3) months now. In this regard, as a medical student who wishes to acquire data analytical skills and venture fully into Medical...

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Fiery Scribe Review is now accepting submissions for its Spring ISSUE #3 'DUST', from May 20th to June 30th.ISSUE #3 SUBMISSIONS Theme: DUST"DUST" could be a glaring allusion to man's eventual corruption—dust to dust, ashes to ashes. It could be a striking echo of vanity or defeat. And whatever interpretation you could conceive.While we want works that reflect the above, we would love to experience...

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 Fictional Café Opens Submissions for Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and PoetryDeadline: RollingThe Fictional Café, entering its tenth year, welcomes new boundary-breaking short stories, flash fiction, novel excerpts, poetry, creative nonfiction, and works in the visual and audio arts.A thousand Coffee Club members in 70 countries read our highly original ‘zine. We welcome all genres.Your work must be tasteful, original, and well written. We look...

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Never look at a reference book while doing a first draft. (A suggestion, if you'd question.)You want to write a story? Fine. Put away your dictionary, your encyclopaedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus. Better yet, throw your thesaurus into the wastebasket. Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule....

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