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The good part about getting older is you stop trying to prove anything to anyone, including yourself. All you are in the pursuit of is collecting experiences - beautiful, fragile little soap bubbles that you store in your heart, and every once in a while you pull one out and gaze at the delicate...

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I don't know if you're aware of a new online literary magazine called Thin Skin? Thin Skin Magazine They only take submissions from writers over 50. They've published four issues so far, and the quality of stories is very high. Free to submit, and all submissions are anonymous. They don't...

The Bridport Prize, famous for 'discovering' Kate Atkinson, and which includes categories for poetry, short story, novel and flash fiction, closes 31 May. This year it includes a Never Too Late Award for writers of 60+ which, it says, 'unlocks the hidden talent of older writers'. It applies...