Given the sheer number of writing manuals out there it can be difficult to determine which might give the most value for money. For that reason, we’ve compiled this master list of our favourite books about writing. Each of these titles should be considered essential reading for any budding writer…
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Neon Literary Magazine Issue 46
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In this issue we meet monsters and their mothers. A teenage girl contemplates the burgeoning horror of her family genes, while a werewolf – desperately lonely – struggles to make it in the big city. We visit the beach at night and examine the aftermath…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 45
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Strange goings on abound on every page of this issue of Neon: urban wildlife becomes oddly violent, the devil appears in a familiar-looking toy car, and a woman throws the last party she’ll ever need to organise. Esteban Rodriguez takes us on a visit to…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 44
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In this edition of Neon we visit the quaint yet dystopian English town of Scarfolk, observe mysterious goings on in a grand hotel, meet a rather more respectable imaginary version of the president of the United States of America in a dream prison, sit in…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 43
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] This issue of Neon has everything, from Faye Moorhouse’s beautiful graphic short story “The Cat Ladies Of Czechoslovakia” to Lynn Hoffman’s poetic investigation into the post-literary lives of various fictional characters (just what did happen to that Potter kid after the magic dried up, anyway?)….
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 42
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] From a brief biography of a man raised as a chicken, to a mortuary romance, to a tale that teeters on the edge of a precariously-assembled tower, issue 42 of Neon is packed with excellent poetry and fiction. There’s even a grotesquely surreal comic by…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 41
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In Neon‘s 41st edition we have a story told backward in time, as well as tales of unsettling dystopian funerals, meat obsessions, and odd encounters on the London Underground. There’s also a selection of poetry, including a piece about birds’ feet and another about an…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 40
[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Neon‘s 40th issue is filled with some seriously unsettling fiction, with stories revolving around horrors as diverse as giant spiders and drive-thru fast food joints. There’s also a selection of poetry and prose-poetry hybrids featuring errant next door neighbours, lurking swamp monsters, and a pill…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 39
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] In issue 39 of Neon everything goes wrong. Parties become nightmares, bridges collapse into bays, a house fire consumes possessions, cars freeze over and life plans dissolve into nothingness. But if that all sounds a bit depressing it’s worth mentioning that there are…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 38
[ Digital Edition Available On Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 38 of Neon begins with a world in which everyone has been swallowed by whales, and ends with a recurring nightmare story about a kitten. In between there are desert islands, floods and plagues, flings and wounds and Facebook, the possibility of…